beamer
One keyboard and mouse for a Mac and a Windows PC over the local network, in either direction.
Details
- External ID
- 1389373301
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- beamer
- Website domain
- kalkmancode.co.uk
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 62
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8669613118114271
- Tags
- clipboard-sync, keyboard-sharing, macos, mouse-sharing, python, software-kvm, windows
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- network kvm for sharing keyboard and mouse between mac and pc
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a reliable cross-platform software KVM switch (similar to Synergy/Barrier) requires low-level OS hooks for input capturing and synthesizing on macOS and Windows, zero-latency network streaming, and clipboard synchronization across OS boundaries.
What it would actually take: Requires C++/Rust using macOS Accessibility/Quartz Event Taps and Windows low-level input hooks (WH_KEYBOARD_LL/WH_MOUSE_LL or Raw Input API) alongside SendInput. Input events must be serialized into a custom UDP/TCP protocol with near-zero latency, packet loss handling, and mutual TLS/encryption. Handling OS-specific permissions (macOS Accessibility/Input Monitoring security frameworks and Windows UAC isolation) requires deep system-level OS engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 586 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #110 of 587 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Logitech-Desktop · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- starfox-enhanced · github · 2026-09-29 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- DisplayMux · github · 2026-09-11 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Mise · hn · 2026-07-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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