desktop-remote
Your phone is now a trackpad, remote & laser pointer (
This is 1 of 125 launches in device connectivity and system utilities — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
121 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1265677
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- desktop-remote
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.34585152838427946
- Tags
- Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Scan a QR code and your phone's browser becomes a laptop remote: low-latency trackpad, context-aware media controls, keyboard, and a real on-screen laser pointer for presentations. No app install, no cloud, no account. Open-source and PIN-secured.
Enrichment
- Theme
- device connectivity and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- smartphone app to control your computer as a trackpad and remote
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This can be vibe-coded using a lightweight local web server (e.g. Node.js or Python) that serves a mobile web app, connects over local WebSockets/WebRTC, and simulates mouse/keyboard inputs via OS-level automation libraries like RobotJS or PyAutoGUI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 121 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 122 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 295 days after the earliest competitor.
- Remote Terminal · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- phone mouse · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- PC Controller · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Remotype · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Remote Magic Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Momentum Mouse · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Fantastic Mouse - Remote Wifi Mouse App · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone · hn · 2026-01-03 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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