seamusc/papermono-shopping-list

E-paper shopping list for the M5Stack PaperMono, with a FastAPI server and phone web UI

Hardware, IoT & roboticsC++

2.6 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 14:00 UTC.

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About the project

Firmware for the M5Stack PaperMono e-paper device that turns it into a fridge shopping list synced with a phone via a FastAPI server.

Useful for

Build and flash the PaperMono with PlatformIO to get a fridge shopping list
Deploy the FastAPI server with SQLite and open the phone web UI to add items
Use the code as a starting point for custom PaperMono firmware with e-paper and touch UI

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

17 stars so far today, about 24 expected by the end of the day.
The repository is 1 day old and already has 8 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Hacker News: “Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page” — 10 points, 3 h ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 8
Today: 17 · ≈ 24 by evening
Forks: 0
Issues and pull requests: 1
Watchers: 0
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
Created: September 27, 2026
Last push: September 28, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page10 points, September 28, 2026

Spotted in

September 28, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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