As part of YC Hacks this past weekend, I worked on a magic remote app thing with Damon Doucet, David Wetterau, and Predrag Gruevski.

The basic idea is that your phone should be aware of what you’re doing on your computer, and try to help you out through context sensitive / application specific controls.

For example, if you’re watching a movie on Netflix, your phone should automatically bring up a huge play/pause button - but as soon as you switch to Keynote, it should instantly transform into a “next slide” button.

To show our concept, we built these sorts of custom controls for Spotify, Netflix, Reddit, Gmail, Facebook, YouTube, and Keynote.

Notes

  1. radiofun said: Pretty cool!
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