Switchboard
Control your PC's monitors, volume and files from your phone
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Switchboard turns your phone into a control deck for your PC over local Wi-Fi. Change real monitor brightness through DDC/CI, mix volume per app without alt-tabbing out of a game, control media playback, and send files both ways. Pair by scanning a QR code. There are no accounts and no cloud servers, and everything is end-to-end encrypted. Desktop app for Windows, Linux and macOS, Android app in Kotlin.
PH · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: remote desktop and control software · 115 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
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More like this: all 115 launches in remote desktop and control software →
Could you build this?
No It requires low-level OS and hardware protocol implementations across Windows C++/Go (DXVA2, VESA DDC/CI, WMI, WASAPI) and custom encrypted P2P networking.
What it would actually take: The system requires a native Windows service/daemon (written in C++ or Go using Windows SDKs) interacting with DXVA2/VESA MCCS for physical monitor hardware registers, WMI for laptop displays, and WASAPI for per-process audio session control. Communication requires a custom local network protocol using mDNS discovery and authenticated encryption (X25519 ECDH + AES-GCM), alongside an Android client using the Storage Access Framework. This necessitates deep systems-level Windows internals expertise and native mobile network programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 302 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #242 of 303 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 278 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sofa Remote · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- RoamDeck · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Remot · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- PC Controller · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Pocket Remote · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DisplaySwitcher · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Remote Terminal · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- phone mouse · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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