Show HN: Home Memory – A local DB of my house, down to cables and pipes

https://github.com/impactjo/home-memory

Article

  • Local database for tracking home infrastructure: outlets, pipes, circuits, appliances
  • Built after years of manual documentation proved unexpectedly useful
  • Data-entry friction was the key bottleneck this solves

Discussion

  • Commenter asked how it differs from an AI agent doing RAG over transcribed notes
  • Author confirmed adding data was always the bottleneck, not retrieval

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Added Apr 16, 2026
Modified Apr 16, 2026