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Universal TV Remote Control

Turn Your Smartphone Into a Universal TV Remote

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Universal TV Remote Control – WiFi & IR Remote Turn your phone into a powerful Universal TV Remote Control for Smart TVs and IR TVs. Control any TV using WiFi or Infrared (IR blaster). Fast setup, smooth navigation, and support for 700+ TV models and brands. Works with Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, Philips, Panasonic, Sharp, Android TV, Roku, Fire TV and more.

PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: mobile system utility apps · 186 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +6% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Web App
  • Productivity

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Could you build this?

Partial The app shell is easy, but control of 700+ TV models over IR and Wi-Fi depends on a large, brand-specific database of IR codes and network protocols that a solo builder would have to collect or reverse-engineer.

What it would actually take: Build a mobile app with IR blaster hardware support (or phone IR APIs) and Wi-Fi control via each brand's LAN protocol (Samsung, LG webOS, Roku ECP, and so on). The hard piece is the remote-code database, which takes years of community or captured data and per-model testing. Hardware-level IR knowledge and ongoing maintenance are required.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 247 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #47 of 248 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.

  • TV Remote: Smart TV · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.71
  • EltaCrew TV Remote · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • TapRemote · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • Tuned · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • No Subscription Remote · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • OpenTV-Remote · github · 2026-10-27 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • aTV RC · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • house-control-tv · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.52

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