Play on your TV using mobile phones as controllers
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HN · launched Apr 26, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 52%) · 3 views
Niche: digital party games · 146 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -41% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 146 launches in digital party games →
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.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1007 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #642 of 1008 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 167 days after the earliest competitor.
- Simple-TV-Box · github · 2026-10-13 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- frametube · github · 2026-10-13 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- questpad · github · 2026-10-10 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- android-tv-ps4 · github · 2026-10-23 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- aceHub · github · 2026-09-30 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PlayerCast VR · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- notflix · github · 2026-11-11 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PadConsole · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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