Sofa Remote
Your phone becomes the remote, the keyboard and a gamepad!
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The remote your PC never came with. Play, pause, skip, seek and volume from any app: browsers, players, streaming sites. Big buttons you can hit in the dark. Media keys, volume and fullscreen on the first screen A touchpad that moves as your finger moves: tap to click, hold to right-click, tap-and-drag to select Android app: the phone's own volume buttons control the PC, also with the screen locked
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: remote desktop and control software · 115 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Free Games
- GitHub
- Side Project
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More like this: all 115 launches in remote desktop and control software →
Could you build this?
Partial The phone web UI and a PC companion app can be vibe-coded using WebSockets and an input library. Smooth touchpad behaviour and a system-level gamepad need OS-level virtual input drivers, which are harder to produce this way.
What it would actually take: The architecture is a phone web client talking over LAN WebSocket to a PC agent that injects keyboard, mouse and media-key events. The gamepad needs a virtual HID device, such as ViGEm on Windows or uinput on Linux, which requires driver-level knowledge. Cross-platform testing and low-latency tuning are the difficult parts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 649 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #308 of 650 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 371 days after the earliest competitor.
- phone mouse · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Gamepad Pro: Key Mapper · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- PC Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- desktop-remote · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Remot · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- KiddoRemote · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Momentum Mouse · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- PC Controller · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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