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Hi Product Hunt! 👋 Special thanks to @hnshah for hunting us! Hiten, thank you for all you do for the startup community (especially us bootstrappers!) I'm super excited to share Luna Display 5.0 – now with support for Windows. This is a really big deal and a new day for our company, let me explain... In 2017 we launched our first hardware product Luna Display. Things were going well. Sales were strong....until Apple's WWDC 2019. At that event Apple revealed Sidecar, which was clearly inspired by our products (we had met with Apple before and they knew us). We were Sherlocked. 💥 In hindsight we were naive and should have seen it coming, but hindsight is always 20/20 right? After Sidecar was released our sales fell off a cliff, they went down by 10x almost overnight. And we had a bootstrapped team of close to 20 people to support. That day we put a stake in the ground and said we aren't going anywhere. ⚡ We knew that to survive we needed to add Windows support. The problem was all our code was written in Objective-C which wouldn't run on Windows (we tried). We immediately kicked off a skunkworks project to rewrite our Liquid tech in Rust to be cross-platform. We also started a new Luna hardware design for HDMI, a popular PC port type. For over two years we worked on rewriting and designing for the PC. It was an incredibly complex and difficult project. We were a small team working on a new platform in a new language. It was tough. The constant stress of worrying if we were going to make it, plus COVID and a global supply chain crisis. But each day we put one foot in front of the other. It was hard but we never gave up. And now 2.5 years later, I'm proud to announce that we've reinvented ourselves as a cross-platform company! Luna Display for Windows is now available! 🙌 🚀 We're back! And we never laid anyone off, we stuck to our team, customers and our products. It would mean the world to us if you'd check out Luna. I'm happy to talk more about the behind-the-scenes product development or what it's like building a hardware product. Thank you!

PC to iPad is a huge deal! Don't think I've seen anyone else doing this. Congrats on the launch!

I was an early adopter of Luna Display and love it. Unlike Sidecar, Luna works while I'm connected to a VPN and when I'm on wireless networks that enforce client isolation. If you're looking for another niche to occupy, I'd love to be able to use my iPad as a display for Raspberry Pi projects!