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Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and Vimeo with your phone
- joshdance 13y agoBought it.
- tomatohs 13y agoThanks <3
- thebiglebrewski 13y agoI'm in full support of this idea. Pretty sick of the limitations Chromecast is putting on this concept. Is there any easy way to develop our own remotes?
- tomatohs 13y agoThanks. The Chrome extension will be open source in the future so developers will be able to write remotes for any website.
- thebiglebrewski 13y agoAmazing! Looking forward to it.
- gingerlime 13y agoCan you use this to control things outside the browser? i.e. mpg123 command-line player etc? A standalone listener/API could be great for plugging this into, well... anything. Nice idea!
- jlebron2 13y agoIs it me or is the design really distracting? I'm using Firefox and I see a blue background with gray text and it's really hard to read. I suspect it might be because I'm using an older version of Firefox, but if this is it then you should look into it.
- theyCallMeSwift 13y agoThis is awesome. Glad there's an iphone version now so I can actually put it to use. Great work!
- tomatohs 13y agoThe number one feature request from the Android release was an iPhone version.
- goostavos 13y agoUsing a chrome extension was a brilliant idea, man! I don't recall the name of it, but there was another app that was along the same idea of using your phone as a remote. It was a neat idea, but you had to install and maintain a separate Java server on your computer to listen for the phone's commands. It made it far more pain that it was worth. Do you have a write up on the tech behind it? Are you guys looking for help on adding additional sites? :) Nice job!
- tomatohs 13y agoThanks. I played with many of these apps and hated running those Java servers. I'll be making a presentation about the technology behind the app at HackNY in NYC. If you can't make it to that, I'll post the video / notes on the blog. I'm planning on open sourcing the extension so people can create their own remotes for any site out there. Also, "you guys" is just me!
- alxbrun 13y agoNice app! Have you considered adding a voice command mode, so that when I'm out of reach of my phone or too lazy to read/touch the phone screen, I can still remote-control websites?
- tomatohs 13y agoYES! I really want this personally. It would be really cool to do this with Google Glass. "Mote.io, Pandora 'The rolling stones'" or "Mote.io, play Hype Machine popular page."
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- theyCallMeSwift 13y ago"iPhone, make me a sandwich". But, seriously, voice commands could be sweet and done through the chrome extension + mic.
- wmeredith 13y agoI HIGHLY recommend making the Mote.io in your header clickable. I had to hunt around the page to figure out how to get to your actual app's web page. Super annoying.
- tomatohs 13y agoThat's great advice. Fixed, thank you.
- mrhazel 13y agoMaybe I'm missing something, but are there any options for the app? I'd like to disable the haptic feedback. EDIT: Your welcome email could use a better sender name. My spam filter caught it. Hello is a very good sender name.
- jbcima- 13y agoomg lol i can control my cat piki with this. oh wait she died.
- stupidideas 13y agopurchased. love it.
- tomatohs 13y agothank you
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- glennos 13y agoWhen I saw this my mind went straight to 'can I use this as a raspberry pi audio only music player?'. Bought it already, but if you're interested in moving the whole ui into the app, I think you'll have a an even bigger swell of interest.
- glennos 13y agoWhen I saw this my mind went straight to 'can I use this as a raspberry pi audio only music player?'. Bought it already, but if you're interested in moving the whole ui into the app, I think you'll have a an even bigger swell of interest.