"Lovable for hardware" startup idea plus LuxoBench, a hardware engineering benchmark for AI models
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-13
- Kunal floated a billion-dollar pitch: a "Lovable for hardware" startup partnering with Chinese factories that ship parts in days. Users describe what they want, the app generates specs following best hardware engineering practices, and lets you order — desk lamps, phone mounts, custom electronics — with paid assembly. He calls it vibe hardware.
- Kyle Corcoran is building a hardware engineering benchmark for AI models. The first version (ask models to build an "interactive desktop lamp") produced overly simple parts-and-instructions output, a poor judge of real engineering. His new approach starts from a render of a complexer device and asks each model to make it real and manufacturable, requiring electronics, software, and mechanisms. If it works, he'll call it LuxoBench, after the Pixar lamp, and will share parts lists and instructions for others to try.
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