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Status Notifier
One busy light for Teams, Zoom, Slack — and finally Discord
A USB desk light that mirrors your real presence — green when you're free, red when you're on a call. Watches Teams, Zoom, Slack AND Discord at once (the only commercial busy light that does). No buttons, no toggling. Free desktop app; hardware $39.99.
Hey Product Hunt! Solo founder here — first hardware product, first launch. 👋
The origin story is embarrassingly simple: in my cubicle days nobody could
tell if the person in a headset was on a call or listening to music, and
working from home made it worse — my family had no way to know when walking
in was fine.
So I built a small USB light that reads your *real* presence from your
meeting apps and changes color automatically. Green = free, red = on a call.
Nothing to remember to toggle — it just mirrors reality.
The reason it exists as a product and not just my desk gadget: every
commercial busy light I could find (Embrava, Luxafor, Kuando) supports
Teams/Zoom/Slack — and every single one ignores Discord. I'm on Discord
calls half my day. Status Notifier watches Teams, Zoom, Slack and Discord
simultaneously and shows whichever is live. For Discord it detects server
voice-channel calls today; DM call detection is in the next version.
Privacy note, because it matters: the app reads availability status via
each platform's official OAuth — never messages, never audio, never call
content.
Under the hood for the hardware crowd: ESP32-C3 driving 30 WS2812s via the
RMT peripheral, native USB (no bridge chip), dumb-by-design firmware — all
the logic lives in the desktop app so fixes ship without reflashing. I
hand-assembled the first batch of 20 at my bench in San Jose. The full
build war stories got a warm reception on r/esp32 last week, which is half
the reason I had the nerve to launch here.
The desktop app is free (Windows + macOS). The light is $39.99.
I'll be here all day — ask me anything about the build, the Discord
integration pain, or what shipping hardware solo actually looks like. 🚀
The Slack integration is a really nice touch since most competitors ignore it. One thing that would make this a must-buy for me: a custom Do Not Disturb mode that I can trigger from my phone or a keyboard shortcut, so I can stay red even when no meeting is running but I really need to focus without Slack pinging me back to green.
About Status Notifier on Product Hunt
“One busy light for Teams, Zoom, Slack — and finally Discord”
Status Notifier was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #31 on the daily leaderboard. A USB desk light that mirrors your real presence — green when you're free, red when you're on a call. Watches Teams, Zoom, Slack AND Discord at once (the only commercial busy light that does). No buttons, no toggling. Free desktop app; hardware $39.99.
Status Notifier was featured in Productivity (656.2k followers), Hardware (11.4k followers) and Remote Work (4.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 152.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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