Introducing mysetup.is

Fury is my daily driver. Vampire used to be my gaming PC and workstation, and now it's a Proxmox node in my homelab. Neither machine looks like it did on day one: parts got swapped, roles changed, and each one has a story. I built MySetup.is because I wanted a place to tell those stories, to show these machines as they are now and as they used to be, and to see what other people have built.

Every machine has a history

Most build pages are a snapshot of a single day. Real machines keep changing, so I borrowed the revision idea from Git.

Each setup gets a page with photos, a parts list, benchmark scores if you have them, and room for the story behind it. When you change something, say a new graphics card and better cooling, you start a new revision. The previous one is kept exactly as it was, with its parts list and photos, and the new one starts as a copy, so you only edit what changed and leave a note about why. The link stays the same and always shows the latest published version.

In your revision history, you can open any older revision and see which parts and photos were added or removed since the one before. Over the years, that becomes the life story of a machine: the first build, every upgrade, and maybe a second life as a server.

You decide who sees it: keep a setup private, share it with a link, or publish it for everyone to find.

Built to be shared

A setup is more fun when other people can see it, ask about it and learn from it.

• Profiles and following: every builder has a profile with their setups. Follow the builders you like, and they show up on your home page.
• Comments: ask how something was done, reply to others, mention someone with @username, and vote on comments. Each comment shows which revision it was written on, so a question about the old cooler still makes sense after the upgrade. You're notified when someone comments on your setup, replies to you or mentions you.
• Ratings: rate a setup from 1 to 10 and tag what stands out, like clean cabling, quiet, great value or good cooling.
• Favourites: keep the setups you want to come back to.
• Explore: browse every public setup, filtered and sorted however you like.
• Achievements: twenty of them, for documenting your setup, improving it over time and earning recognition from the community.

Adding your parts

You can pick exact models from the hardware catalogue, add parts by hand, or paste a list from PCPartPicker, your notes or a forum post and confirm the matches.

Or let the MySetup Scanner do it. The app for Windows and Linux and the PowerShell and shell scripts read your processor, graphics card, motherboard, memory and drives. The shell script also works on servers you reach over SSH, and it's written for Macs too, though it hasn't been tested on a real Mac yet. If you try it on one, tell me how it went. The app and scripts are open source and read-only: the scan runs on your own computer, the report leaves out serial numbers, usernames, hostnames and network addresses, and nothing is sent unless you type a code from your build page into the app or paste the script's report yourself. You review the matches before any part is added. The app isn't code-signed yet, so Windows will warn you the first time you run it, and the instructions walk you through that. Scanner and scripts on GitHub

A catalogue built from real setups

Every part in the catalogue has a page listing the public setups that use it, and each category shows which parts are used most in shared setups. Look up a graphics card and see the machines it ended up in, what it was paired with, and the scores those machines get.

How I imagine people using it

• Starting a setup when the build is new and adding a revision with every upgrade, so its whole history lives behind one link.
• Following a friend's homelab or someone's long-running build, and coming back to see how it has changed.
• Asking in the comments how someone fit that cooler, and getting an answer from the builder or from someone who did the same.
• Sharing one link in a forum or a chat instead of a pasted parts list.
• Looking up a part before buying it, to see real machines that use it.
• Finding a new job for old hardware by seeing what others did with the same parts.

What I hope it becomes

I want MySetup to be a community where machines are followed for years, not posted once and forgotten, and where an old PC's second or third life is as worth showing as a brand-new build. On the hardware side, I want the catalogue to understand how parts fit together, with compatibility and fit checks that can answer whether your next GPU will fit the case you already have, or whether your power supply can handle the upgrade.

If you've got a build you're proud of, or an old machine you've somehow found a third job for, I'd like to see it. Show yours on MySetup.is.