QuietDash
Your day on a calm e-ink screen, not your phone
QuietDash launched on June 6, 2026 with 16 votes, #956 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Bring your own e-ink screen. QuietDash runs on any Waveshare panel and a Raspberry Pi you already own, so there's no proprietary device to buy and nothing to import. It renders your dashboard (tasks, calendar, a focus timer, fitness rings) to a crisp 1-bit image and the Pi just displays it. No backlight, no notifications. It runs on your own network, so your data stays home. Open source, made in Europe. My phone unlocks dropped from about 60 a day to 15.
A small e-ink display that shows your progress, then leaves you alone. No glow, no notifications. Open-source, made in Europe.
QuietDash is a small e-ink screen for your desk. It shows the few numbers you actually care about, then it sits there quietly. No glow, no notifications, no reason to keep checking it. people asked to be told when it's ready, most of them from a Reddit post that did better than I expected. Focus Build Today Activity 17:18 left, 92% of the day gone, four things to do. The itch Most of those are 30-second checks: the time, a number, did anything change. By the time the screen lights up, a notification has already pulled you somewhere you didn't mean to go. The information was never the problem. The doorway was. QuietDash is the opposite of a doorway. The thing you wanted to glance at is just…from quietdash.com
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