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TinyPilot
Company blog · tinypilotkvm.com/bloghardwareprogramming
TinyPilot is the company blog at tinypilotkvm.com, writing about hardware and programming. Since 2020, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “TinyPilot: KVM over IP Control any computer remotely”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
55mentions?
28HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link TinyPilot's site as a KVM-over-IP option built on a Raspberry Pi. Its posts cover building the device, product redesigns, and the creator's sale of the business.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Never lose access. TinyPilot is remote KVM over IP with a serial console and LAN monitoring in one box per site, backed by US-based support.
Most-linked posts?
- TinyPilot: KVM over IP Control any computer remotely15 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2020-07-24
- TinyPilot: Build a KVM over IP for Under $1003 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-06-03
- /product/tinypilot-voyager23 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-31
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-22
- /product/tinypilot-pro2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-03
- /product/tinypilot-voyager2a2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-05
- TinyPilot's New Design – v2 of Raspberry Pi Based Remote KVM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for the feedback! > If we select the "Product" option from the top menu, we're taken directly to the order page for the TinyPilot Voyager 2. If we go to the root page for the products ( https://tinypilotkvm.com/product/ ) we get a page not found!!! Are you talking about if you manually change the URL? I don't think anything links to the /product/ route. > Although you're also selling something else, the TinyP…
Comment linking /product/tinypilot-pro
on “I regret my website redesign”Submitted TinyPilot: Build a KVM over IP for Under $100 as a story · 196 points
HN discussionThanks for reading! I appreciate the feedback, but the hard part about feedback like this is: how do I identify who's right? Half the people in the thread are saying the old design is better, and half are saying the new design is better. If I could flip a switch and try the design you're describing and see how it affects sales, I'd try it, but taking professional photographs and redesigning the site is several thous…
Comment linking /product/tinypilot-voyager2
on “I regret my website redesign”Submitted TinyPilot: KVM over IP Control any computer remotely as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSome feedback from a person who is the target audience of your product: https://tinypilotkvm.com/illustrations/tinypilot-overview-il... is the most prominent image on your site and of little value in my opinion. Rather than have a sketch that looks like it very well could just be a stock image (and my brain is trained to ignore this type of image), I recommend having actual photos that show the same scene. A photo o…
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on “I regret my website redesign”Submitted TinyPilot's New Design – v2 of Raspberry Pi Based Remote KVM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHuge respect for your TinyPilot project (especially for the free version of the software over at https://github.com/tiny-pilot/tinypilot ), but I think you were ripped off and not enough care/attention was given to your page :-( I'm not trying to be one of those people who say, you gave too much money for something I would create in 2 weeks with only 4k, but I'm trying to give a friendly advice to a fellow software…
Comment linking /product/tinypilot-pro
on “I regret my website redesign”Submitted TinyPilot: Introducing Voyager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI make one that I put a lot of effort into documenting: https://github.com/tiny-pilot/tinypilot It's pretty easy to extend since it's just Python and vanilla HTML/JS/CSS, so there's not much of a toolchain to install. You can buy it pre-made for $399 or make a DIY one for under $100. https://tinypilotkvm.com/blog/build-a-kvm-over-ip-under-100
Comment linking /blog/build-a-kvm-over-ip-under-100
on “DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching”> I looked up the CPU for one of the devices. It's the same one used in Raspberry Pi 4. It's the same CPU because inside it is a Raspberry Pi 4. We publish instructions for people to build their own.[0] > he has a privileged background (worked at Google) and somehow that helped him tap into a market of people who don't know that a good price for a Raspberry Pi 4 is $35, not $350 or $400. I can see $65 with a nice ca…
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on “My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder”Thanks for reading! > I am curious about your ad spend. I noticed that it dropped 24%. I added a few more details about that in a different reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39398746 > Can you talk about your strategy for marketing your business? For the first two years, I was primarily reaching out to bloggers and YouTube creators that I liked. TinyPilot appeals to people in the homelab / IT prosumer comm…
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on “My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder”https://tinypilotkvm.com/
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on “I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business”If you want to support the author and purchase the whole kit, here it is https://tinypilotkvm.com/ (Edit: No affiliation. Just happy to see something like this for hacking :) )
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on “Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi”Yeah, I’ll admit there’s some paranoia about losing access after a botched upgrade. I’m considering investing in a https://tinypilotkvm.com/ , but that can wait till I’ve lost ssh at least once. I’m not hosting aws on the thing so I can afford to play it fast and loose :)
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on “Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience”You can do that with any computer with pikvm and tinypilot https://tinypilotkvm.com/ https://pikvm.org/
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on “Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer”Was gonna say the same thing, here: https://tinypilotkvm.com/
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on “JetKVM – Control any computer remotely”NanoKVM looks really neat, thank you! I take it you're in the US? Because it seems I (in Europe) could order it from Aliexpress, see the link on https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM . EDIT: It seems the NanoKVM is struggling with one of the most fundamental KVM tasks, though: https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM/issues/594 I really liked the PCIe form factor, but it looks like I'll have to go for https://tinypilotkvm.com/…
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on “Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)”If you don't want to assemble a PiKVM yourself there's always Tiny Pilot: https://tinypilotkvm.com/
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on “A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff”> Next, I looked at commercial KVM over IP solutions. They provide similar functionality to Dell's iDRAC, but they're external devices that connect to a computer's keyboard, video, and mouse ports (hence the name KVM). Sadly, they're even more expensive, ranging in price from $500 to $1000 per unit. And the site's commercial product is $400, which is also quite expensive. https://tinypilotkvm.com/product/tinypilot-v…
Comment linking /product/tinypilot-voyager2
on “TinyPilot: Build a KVM over IP for Under $100”There are a couple of vendors (including me[0]) that offer a circuit board that splits the Pi's USB-C port into separate data and power ports with reverse current protection. There are cables that do the same thing, but they don't provide reverse current protection. If there's a voltage difference between the USB port on your target system and the PSU feeding your Raspberry Pi, you can mess up the system's USB port…
Comment linking /product/tinypilot-power-connector
on “Raspberry Pi KVMs Compared: TinyPilot and Pi-KVM v3”If your wish is not granted and need an add-on kvm, check out one of these: https://tinypilotkvm.com/ https://pikvm.org/download.html
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on “Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation”Oh, that's interesting. I'm doing something like that now, except the premium features are just in a Pro version.[0] There are only a handful of purchases per month of the Pro version, and I've wondered whether I should scrap it for some other model. It's possible that even though people don't buy the software standalone, it's part of what makes people purchase hardware kits from me, as the hardware packages all inc…
Comment linking /product/tinypilot-pro
on “TinyPilot: Month 11”Given that he spoke directly with the creator of pikvm, and talks about that in the first tinypilot blog post ( https://tinypilotkvm.com/blog/build-a-kvm-over-ip-under-100 ) I doubt that what you're saying holds water.
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on “TinyPilot: Month 11”I didn't know what was TinyPilot before so a search gave me this: https://tinypilotkvm.com/ It looks really neat, well done!
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on “TinyPilot: Month 11”Similar concept (TinyPilot) discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23927380 (and v2 at https://tinypilotkvm.com/blog/v2-design )
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on “Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management”I recently chatted with the creator of TinyPilotKVM ( https://tinypilotkvm.com/ ) which lets you remote control a server without installing any software on it. It's a KVM over IP device that you plug into your machine. He sells a few hundred of them a month after launching in mid 2020. The podcast episode is at: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/105-tinypilotkvm-let... It covers everything from how he got star…
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on “Ask HN: How does one go about bringing a hardware product to market?”I've been doing this for the past 18 months with a Raspberry Pi-based network administration tool called TinyPilot. I originally launched it on HN in 2020[0], and there was enough interest that I turned it into a real product[1] and have been iterating on it ever since. Like you, my background is in software, and I had no hardware experience aside from using the Raspberry Pi as a cheap server on a few projects. I've…
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on “Ask HN: How does one go about bringing a hardware product to market?”pikvm is open source https://pikvm.org/ https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm tinypilot is open source (but they kind of restrict "pro" binary availability) https://tinypilotkvm.com/ https://github.com/tiny-pilot/tinypilot
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on “NanoKVM: Affordable, Multifunctional, Nano RISC-V IP-KVM”Glad to hear it! Regarding power, you can get a USB-C splitter[0], which will allow you to give your Pi the full 3 Amps. The TinyPilot Voyager 2 has this built-in, and the PoE one makes it so you don't need AC power at all. [0] https://tinypilotkvm.com/blog/build-a-kvm-over-ip-under-100#...
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on “BliKVM PCIe puts a computer in your computer”> In general, we’re weathering the shortage very well, and the supply of mainline Raspberry Pi computers, Zeros and our other products have not been affected (we’re very good at pipelining). This is a surprisingly false claim. I make a Pi-based product,[0] and there have been Pi shortages throughout 2021. Right now, I'm struggling to find any vendor that has Pi 4B 2GB or 4GB for anything more than one per customer.…
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on “Raspberry Pi Releases new PoE+ Hat”
