Switchboard
Control your PC's monitors, volume and files from your phone
Details
- External ID
- 1256318
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Switchboard
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- remote pc controller from a mobile phone
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 102 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #48 of 103 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 278 days after the earliest competitor.
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