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Hi Product Hunt! I'm Hans, and I built 1Retro because I kept losing game saves I cared about.
Retro saves live in fragile places: an SD card in a handheld, a RetroArch folder on a PC, a battery-backed chip inside a 30-year-old cartridge. Every one is a single point of failure, and none of them talk to each other. I was playing the same game on a MiSTer at my desk and a handheld on the couch, and my progress didn't follow me. It felt absurd that my Steam library gets this automatically while the games I've cared about for decades don't.
I assumed this was a file-sync problem. It isn't. Every emulator and device names and stores saves differently, so "just copy the folder" gives you conflicts and clobbered progress. The approach evolved into something deeper: per-device layouts (RetroArch, MiSTer, OnionOS handhelds, Steam Deck and more), full version history so a bad write can never destroy a good save, parsers that read the save and show what's actually inside, and a library you can export in full, so you're never locked to my service (an open save format spec is in the works).
The part I never planned: physical cartridges. Plug a Game Boy cart into a GB Operator and 1Retro backs up the save straight off the chip, next to everything else.
It's free to start. I'd love to hear two things: your worst lost-save story, and which device you'd want supported next.
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About 1Retro on Product Hunt
“Cloud save sync for retro emulators and handhelds”
1Retro was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #154 on the daily leaderboard. 1Retro backs up and syncs your retro game saves across RetroArch, MiSTer FPGA, OnionOS, Miyoo Mini, and desktop emulators. Free to start.
1Retro was featured in Retro Games (3.3k followers), SaaS (43.6k followers) and Games (98.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 79.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted 1Retro?
1Retro was hunted by Hans Larsen. 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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Hans Larsen
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Hans, and I built 1Retro because I kept losing game saves I cared about.
Retro saves live in fragile places: an SD card in a handheld, a RetroArch folder on a PC, a battery-backed chip inside a 30-year-old cartridge. Every one is a single point of failure, and none of them talk to each other. I was playing the same game on a MiSTer at my desk and a handheld on the couch, and my progress didn't follow me. It felt absurd that my Steam library gets this automatically while the games I've cared about for decades don't.
I assumed this was a file-sync problem. It isn't. Every emulator and device names and stores saves differently, so "just copy the folder" gives you conflicts and clobbered progress. The approach evolved into something deeper: per-device layouts (RetroArch, MiSTer, OnionOS handhelds, Steam Deck and more), full version history so a bad write can never destroy a good save, parsers that read the save and show what's actually inside, and a library you can export in full, so you're never locked to my service (an open save format spec is in the works).
The part I never planned: physical cartridges. Plug a Game Boy cart into a GB Operator and 1Retro backs up the save straight off the chip, next to everything else.
It's free to start. I'd love to hear two things: your worst lost-save story, and which device you'd want supported next.