Hello HN, I’m Michele. I’m building Meddle because connecting hardware stuff is still way harder than it should be.

Every factory I worked with had the same problem: robots, PLCs, CNCs, sensors, all speaking different protocols, all locked in silos. Getting data out meant custom scripts, fragile gateways, or expensive vendor lock-ins.

What I built: Meddle is a data-driven IoT platform that connects industrial machines to any destination. It normalizes machine data, enriches it, and streams it where you need it: cloud, MES, analytics, or custom pipelines.

The use case: Teams use Meddle to:

- connect legacy and modern machines in days instead of months

- centralize production data without rewriting everything

- build monitoring, analytics, and automation on top of clean machine data

Right now we’re opening a waitlist to validate real-world use cases and edge cases (especially ugly factories ).

I’d love feedback from anyone dealing with industrial IoT, data pipelines, or factory integrations.