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PC Controller

Your phone and watch as a private remote for your PC

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PC Controller turns your phone and watch into a full control surface for your Windows PC or Mac — trackpad, keyboard, media, displays, files and power. On your own network. No cloud, no account, no tracking.

PH · launched Sep 29, 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
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Windows
  • Mac
  • Productivity

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Could you build this?

Partial Building companion mobile and watch apps that interface with a local host daemon to emulate mouse, keyboard, and display controls over local networks requires low-level OS API programming and protocol design.

What it would actually take: The architecture requires a lightweight native daemon (in Rust, C++, or Go) running on macOS/Windows using OS input-simulation APIs (like Windows SendInput or macOS CGEvent), paired with native iOS/Android/watchOS clients. Communication requires low-latency local UDP/WebSockets, mDNS/Bonjour for zero-config pairing, and custom protocol buffering to handle high-frequency trackpad and keystroke events seamlessly.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 340 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #283 of 341 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Remot · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • phone mouse · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Remote Terminal · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • desktop-remote · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Sofa Remote · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Remotype · ph · 2026-10-01 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • PC Link · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Remote Magic Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52

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