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couch-tv

Your own Google TV home screen and phone remote, with an optional Claude assistant. Set it up by handing this repo to your AI agent.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 124 upvotes (top 10%) · 0 views

Niche: streaming media players and tools · 616 launches, 349 in the last 7 days ▲ +1026% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • B2C
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • android-tv
  • claude-code
  • google-tv
  • home-screen

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More like this: all 616 launches in streaming media players and tools →

Could you build this?

Yes A self-hosted Google TV home screen and phone remote built on Android TV remote protocols and open-source libraries, with an optional Claude assistant. The setup is documented as something an AI agent can perform, which suggests a standard integration stack.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 203 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #24 of 204 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.

  • TV Box Tools · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • free-my-tv · github · 2026-10-19 · 3806 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • 3d-home-tv-os · github · 2026-10-19 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • EltaCrew TV Remote · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • HomeBoard · github · 2026-11-02 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • theboringtv-lgwebos · github · 2026-10-20 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Claude-TV · github · 2026-10-18 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • TV Remote: Smart TV · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49

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