Spud
cross-platform remote control, optimised for gaming
Details
- External ID
- 48187382
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Spud
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3053311793214863
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Over the last few weeks I've been working on Spud, an application that allows you to control a remote computer that you can see. For example, if you have a gaming PC connected to you TV, Spud lets you use a laptop as input.It's optimised for low-latency, as it's intended for gaming. There are even a few parameters you can tune in the application. I built this mainly for myself, to solve a particular problem I had, but I hope that others find it useful too!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- remote control optimized for gaming
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Writing a basic input forwarder is simple, but achieving low-latency, cross-platform remote control tailored for gaming requires kernel/OS-level virtual input drivers and ultra-low-latency networking.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a lightweight client/server setup using raw UDP/WebRTC or custom packet serialization to stream controller and mouse/keyboard states. The critical bottleneck is synthesizing virtual gamepad (XInput/ViGEm) and mouse inputs at the OS driver level with sub-frame input lag on Windows, Linux, and macOS without triggering anti-cheat software. This requires low-level systems programming in C/C++ or Rust and OS input stack expertise.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Steam Connect, VirtualHere
Concerns raised: Connection drops and crashes after extended use, No latency measurement figures provided, No gamepad support mentioned
Feature requests: Gamepad and peripheral support, Latency measurement documentation
Competitors
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Attention rank: #34 of 38 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 152 days after the earliest competitor.
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- DreamPUT · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- TV-Top Games · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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