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Zapbar

Your Mac keyboard as TV remote

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Zapbar is a free, open-source menu bar remote for your TV. It finds your TV, sets it up, and gives you one power button, typing and link sending from your Mac, APK install by drag and drop, and screenshots. Local network only, no tracking.

PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Open Source
  • GitHub
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Partial The MCP wrapper around scraping actors is straightforward to vibe-code, but it depends on maintaining reliable scrapers that break whenever YouTube or TikTok change.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 621 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #405 of 622 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 284 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Castbar · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • LGwebOS-menubar · github · 2026-10-13 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Screen Room Remote · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • mac-tv · github · 2026-10-30 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • TV Remote: Smart TV · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Nunc Sonat · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Zap · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Screen To TV · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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