Making hardware used to take weeks of learning CAD, sourcing compatible parts, and writing firmware. With Confetti, it starts with a conversation. Create and edit designs, find components, and order printed parts straight to your doorstep. Start from scratch or remix a community project to make it your own.
Hey everyone! We’re Tianyi and Lucas, cofounders of Confetti (YC F26). We're two UPenn CS dropouts who love building. Between us, we’re 9x hackathon winners and have conducted research at Stanford and Wolfram. But, when we entered the world of hardware and wanted to build a home AI device for themselves, we found ourselves faced with more questions along every step of the process. Which connector did we need for this? Would the components fit inside the case? Where could we buy the parts, and when would they arrive? Were they compatible?
For someone who had never built hardware before, that was an enormous amount to learn just to make one thing. We don’t think that should be the price of admission. We’re building Confetti so you can describe what you want, work through the details, and keep refining it as your idea takes shape, with AI agents handling the hard parts of the process.
Confetti puts the whole process on one platform, driven by natural language:
CAD: generate and edit 3D designs from text or image prompts
Electronics: automatic sourcing for compatible off-the-shelf parts, wiring, and firmware
Manufacturing: get quotes and place orders to get parts sent straight to your doorstep
Community: share, remix, and personalize builds from other makers for yourself
People have used Confetti to build things like a portable dynamic mechanical analyzer for physics research labs, a custom keyboard to type faster, and customized gifts for friends. AI has democratized who can build software. We believe hardware is next. With Confetti, more people can experiment, solve their own problems, and make personalized things that otherwise wouldn’t exist.
The part that would decide it for me is where the plain-English description stops and the physical constraints start. When the CAD, compatible parts, wiring, and firmware are generated together, what happens if a part goes out of stock or a dimension doesn't fit the enclosure — does it revise the whole design, or flag just that piece for me to change? And for a remix, how much of the original build can I change before the sourcing and firmware stop matching?
Finding compatible parts belongs in the same conversation as designing the enclosure. A design gets much more interesting when you can work out how to actually build it.
Congratulations on the launch. As tech person who is not really native tk hardware, this looks like a great way to learn and create some simple projects.
I was playing around a bit with it and my first impressions was really positive.
One thing that I'd be happy to see is budget customizations and showing the predicted cost before starting the Build phase.
Overall, great project. Good luck🤞
About Confetti on Product Hunt
“Easiest way to build hardware gadgets using plain English”
Confetti launched on Product Hunt on October 29th, 2026 and earned 106 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. Making hardware used to take weeks of learning CAD, sourcing compatible parts, and writing firmware. With Confetti, it starts with a conversation. Create and edit designs, find components, and order printed parts straight to your doorstep. Start from scratch or remix a community project to make it your own.
Confetti was featured in Design Tools (263.7k followers), Prototyping (71.5k followers), Hardware (11.5k followers) and Maker Tools (2.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 55.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Confetti?
Confetti was hunted by Garry Tan. 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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Garry Tan
Hey everyone! We’re Tianyi and Lucas, cofounders of Confetti (YC F26). We're two UPenn CS dropouts who love building. Between us, we’re 9x hackathon winners and have conducted research at Stanford and Wolfram. But, when we entered the world of hardware and wanted to build a home AI device for themselves, we found ourselves faced with more questions along every step of the process. Which connector did we need for this? Would the components fit inside the case? Where could we buy the parts, and when would they arrive? Were they compatible?
For someone who had never built hardware before, that was an enormous amount to learn just to make one thing. We don’t think that should be the price of admission. We’re building Confetti so you can describe what you want, work through the details, and keep refining it as your idea takes shape, with AI agents handling the hard parts of the process.
Confetti puts the whole process on one platform, driven by natural language:
CAD: generate and edit 3D designs from text or image prompts
Electronics: automatic sourcing for compatible off-the-shelf parts, wiring, and firmware
Manufacturing: get quotes and place orders to get parts sent straight to your doorstep
Community: share, remix, and personalize builds from other makers for yourself
People have used Confetti to build things like a portable dynamic mechanical analyzer for physics research labs, a custom keyboard to type faster, and customized gifts for friends. AI has democratized who can build software. We believe hardware is next. With Confetti, more people can experiment, solve their own problems, and make personalized things that otherwise wouldn’t exist.
What will you make?