Use your phone as a Windows mouse and keyboard, without a phone app
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Details
- External ID
- 50060954
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- app
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop and display utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- phone-based mouse and keyboard controller for windows without a dedicated mobile app
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It can be easily built with a lightweight local desktop server (Node.js/Python using robotjs or pygetwindow) hosting a mobile-friendly web app that sends touch/keyboard events over WebSockets or WebRTC.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Unclear or distorted hand SVG illustration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 405 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #390 of 406 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
- phone mouse · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- PC Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Momentum Mouse · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Fantastic Mouse - Remote Wifi Mouse App · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- winboard · github · 2026-09-20 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Logitech-Desktop · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- wphone.dev · github · 2026-10-02 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Cursor Remote Lite · ph · 2026-10-04 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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