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Vibote turns your Bluetooth TV remote into a macOS coding controller. Map buttons to shortcuts, hold to talk, and use your favorite AI voice app. Free and open source.

PH · launched Oct 1, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views

Niche: developer productivity and workflow management · 179 launches, 28 in the last 7 days ▲ +250% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Open Source
  • GitHub
  • Audio
  • Vibe coding

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Could you build this?

Partial Mapping standard Bluetooth HID inputs is simple, but intercepting custom Bluetooth remote control protocols, handling audio streams from the remote's microphone, and bridging them to macOS accessibility APIs is tricky.

What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift/Objective-C development using macOS IOBluetooth and CoreBluetooth frameworks to negotiate proprietary remote control profiles and continuous push-to-talk audio input from Bluetooth remotes. It must also leverage macOS Accessibility APIs and CGEvent injection to execute contextual keystrokes and system shortcuts securely without sandbox violation issues.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 136 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #36 of 137 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 288 days after the earliest competitor.

  • MiRemoteBridge · ph · 2026-09-18 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • TV Remote: Smart TV · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • mac-tv · github · 2026-10-30 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • zwiftboard · github · 2026-10-17 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • open-appleremote · github · 2026-10-09 · 227 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • KiddoRemote · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Zapbar · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • LGwebOS-menubar · github · 2026-10-13 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.43

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