Play on your TV using mobile phones as controllers
PadlessBox
Details
- External ID
- 47908751
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Play on your TV using mobile phones as controllers
- Website domain
- padlessbox.com
- Launched
- April 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- tv games controlled by mobile phones
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This party game setup connects mobile web controllers to a central TV screen over WebSockets or WebRTC with room codes, a standard and well-understood real-time pattern.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 196 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #100 of 197 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 167 days after the earliest competitor.
- PlayerCast VR · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- aceHub · github · 2026-09-30 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- WinStadia · github · 2026-09-19 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- aTV RC · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GBRemote · github · 2026-09-19 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TV-Top Games · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- agent-mobile-use · github · 2026-09-17 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- JoyLink: Phone as Gamepad · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a hardware & robotics tool for Horizontal yet.