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Kindle Side Card
Turn an old Kindle into a local e-ink side display
Open-source local-first dashboard for jailbroken Kindles. A Python daemon renders a Kindle-native PNG; KUAL pulls it over Wi-Fi and paints it with eips. Built for slow, glanceable status, not another browser tab.
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I built this because a browser dashboard is still a browser: bright, interactive, and one click away from another tab. Kindle Side Card is intentionally weaker. It uses slow e-ink for ambient state like todos, system status, AI usage gauges, calendar snippets, messages, PR queues, and notes. It is experimental: PW1 / 5th gen is the first tested target, jailbreak + KUAL are required, and the current visuals are renderer-generated until real device photos come in. GitHub: https://github.com/perduewu-ops/...
About Kindle Side Card on Product Hunt
“Turn an old Kindle into a local e-ink side display”
Kindle Side Card was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #95 on the daily leaderboard. Open-source local-first dashboard for jailbroken Kindles. A Python daemon renders a Kindle-native PNG; KUAL pulls it over Wi-Fi and paints it with eips. Built for slow, glanceable status, not another browser tab.
On the analytics side, Kindle Side Card competes within Productivity and GitHub — topics that collectively have 695.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Kindle Side Card performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Kindle Side Card?
Kindle Side Card was hunted by Callan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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