MorseApp
Send and receive Morse code with an iPhone's LED torch and camera
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GITHUB · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 80%) · 0 views
Niche: networking and tunneling utilities · 190 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Flashing the torch is straightforward via AVFoundation, but reliably decoding incoming optical Morse code via video stream requires real-time computer vision and signal thresholding under variable lighting.
What it would actually take: An iOS native app (Swift/SwiftUI) using AVFoundation is needed. The receiving engine requires real-time camera frame processing with OpenCV or Vision framework to isolate the light source, adaptive luminance thresholding to handle ambient light variation and hand wobble, and state-machine timing algorithms to distinguish dots, dashes, and word breaks. This requires solid experience with mobile computer vision and signal processing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 449 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #355 of 450 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
- Browser-Based Tempest · hn · 2026-09-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- iPhone-Mirroring · github · 2026-09-13 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- telegram-style-video · github · 2026-10-14 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- OpenRayneo · github · 2026-09-28 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ghosthand · github · 2026-10-27 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- open-iphone-use · github · 2026-10-23 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Dot & Dash · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- cell-use · github · 2026-09-28 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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