PHI
Startup Intelligence
Markets
  • Signal Feed
  • Startups
  • Categories
  • Founders
  • Revenue
  • Beyond the launch
Intelligence
  • Content Desk
  • Editorial QA
  • Ask Market
  • Signature Index
  • Trends
Lab
  • Metric Bench
  • Tagline Lab
  • Smart Search
Yours
  • Watchlist
  • Alerts
  • Search
PHI
Sync
PHI
Startup Intelligence
Markets
  • Signal Feed
  • Startups
  • Categories
  • Founders
  • Revenue
  • Beyond the launch
Intelligence
  • Content Desk
  • Editorial QA
  • Ask Market
  • Signature Index
  • Trends
Lab
  • Metric Bench
  • Tagline Lab
  • Smart Search
Yours
  • Watchlist
  • Alerts
  • Search
Sync now
/
1,931 products · 9,275 snapshots
Forma by Caid

Forma by Caid

Notable signal

build hardware systems end to end

Launched 1d ago
Signal
44
Velocity
0

What this means

+1143%Launching in a 1143% WoW growing category.
Tech had 87 launches this week vs 7 last.
22Founder Conviction Index: 22 — low signal.
Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.

Prediction

Top-5 finish probability
17%
today
Projected end-of-day votes
54range 41–73
Trajectory
stable
Vote pace holding steady.

About

Forma turns a prompt or image into an editable hardware project with parts, wiring, mechanical layouts, cost estimates, and assembly instructions. Its open-source, local-first workspace connects supported AI agents to shared project data, rule-based electrical checks, and CAD tools. Generate concept renders, inspect the design, and revise your project as your idea evolves.

AI Summary

Forma-oss is an open-source platform that transforms prompts or images into editable hardware projects, providing parts lists, wiring diagrams, mechanical layouts, cost estimates, and assembly instructions. It integrates AI agents with local project data and CAD tools for design inspection and revisions.

Attention & discussion velocity

Performance

Velocity0
Vote pace vs average
Momentum0
Sustained over 6h
Virality0
Spread × engagement
Engagement0
Discussion per unit of attention

Editorial read

Scored deterministically. Only candidates that fire a story trigger are sent to a model, so this one has no written angle.

ThinLittle evidence and no strong angle. Nothing to build on yet.
135/8
Timeliness5%100
carried 7%
Trend20%50
carried 27%
Novelty15%48
carried 20%
Story20%0
carried 27%
Business15%0
carried 20%
Not measured · 3 of 8
Revenue10%—
Founder10%—
Cross-platform5%—

Gaps in our data, not findings about the product. Their weight is redistributed across the 5 we did measure.

measuredmeasured, zeronot measured
Full audit →

Signal sources

3 of 6 active
  • Launch tracking6 readings since we picked it up
  • AI analysisHardware
  • Comment intelligenceno discussion to analyse
  • Outside discussionnot checked — domain is a storefront or shared
  • Revenue signalsno match on this domain
  • Editorial scoring13% evidence coverage

A source that found nothing is a measurement. A source that has not run is a gap. Neither means the launch lacks the thing.

Founders

Isayah Culbertson
@isayahc
rep 22
Isayah Culbertson
@isayahc · hunter

Topics

HardwareOpenAI DayGitHubTechProductivity