BandarLabs/Cobalt
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SDK for building apps & an app store for your Kobo eInk reader
11 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 4 stories, 7 comments · first 2026-08-02 · latest 2026-10-25
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…with sandboxing and permissions model, auto-updates, shared capabilities etc. to be built for Kobo https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt
comment by thepoet · 2026-10-25 · in We should be more ambitious with the software we build -
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Show HN: Run the birds sound detection on any Kobo eReaderstory by thepoet · 2026-09-17 · 0 comments
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If you have a Kobo (~ US$ 120 or even less used) you can run this using Cobalt https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/tree/beta/apps/birds
comment by thepoet · 2026-09-16 · in Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations -
…an OPDS client implemented as an app example here, tested on Gutenberg's OPDS and standard eBooks. https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/tree/main/examples/gute...
comment by thepoet · 2026-08-22 · in Kobo can run apps now -
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Native HN App for Kobostory by mkagenius · 2026-08-13 · 0 comments
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…perfect and what I was looking for while building the UI components for an SDK for Kobo e-ink apps https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt
comment by thepoet · 2026-08-10 · in Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? -
…an app development platform for my Kobo eReader so that I can live without my mac and phone. https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt Have built the SDK and some apps like an HN Client, ChatGPT client, Claude Code permissions sidekick, RSS…
comment by thepoet · 2026-08-09 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) -
…a single core and 512mb RAM can do so much and run for so long. Here is the open-sourced platform https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt
comment by thepoet · 2026-08-09 · in Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 -
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Apps for Kobostory by mkagenius · 2026-08-05 · 6 comments
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…Clara BW. Significantly less work I hope than doing it all from scratch even with a coding agent. https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt
comment by thepoet · 2026-08-03 · in Devtools must be open source -
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Show HN: Cobalt, an SDK to build apps for Kobo eReadersstory by thepoet · 2026-08-02 · 0 comments