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Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

A developer built PaperMono, an e-ink fridge-magnet shopping list running on an M5Stack PaperMono board (ESP32-S3 with e-ink touchscreen) that syncs with a mobile web page over Wi-Fi and works offline, comprising roughly 2,400 lines of C++. The firmware was fully generated with Claude Code rather than hand-written, and the developer reports the device is already in daily family use.

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Fridge magnet shopping list on an M5Stack PaperMono (ESP32-S3, e-ink touchscreen), synced with a phone web app over Wi-Fi. Works offline, ~2,400 lines of C++.

This is a great wee device! BLE, Wi-Fi and LoRa on one board makes it flexible for way more than a shopping list, this is just what I built first. This firmware only uses Wi-Fi.

Fully vibe-coded with Claude Code, I didn't hand-write this. I wanted to see how Claude would get on with building something useful for a new hardware device.

As it's stuck to the fridge it's easy for the family to use, and it's already being used day to day which I'll admit is a first for a home built project like this

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875801](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875801)

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