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Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and Vimeo with your phone

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Using 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!

Thanks. 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!

I 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.

That's great advice. Fixed, thank you.

Is 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.

Sorry about that. Just checked it out. It's probably the older version of FF as it works on mine, but I will look into it. Thanks.

No problem, I figured that would be it. Just wanted to give you a heads up.

When 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.

Maybe 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.

Nice 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?

YES! 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."

"iPhone, make me a sandwich".

But, seriously, voice commands could be sweet and done through the chrome extension + mic.

I'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?

Thanks. The Chrome extension will be open source in the future so developers will be able to write remotes for any website.

Amazing! Looking forward to it.

Can 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!

This is awesome. Glad there's an iphone version now so I can actually put it to use. Great work!

The number one feature request from the Android release was an iPhone version.

Bought it.

Thanks <3

purchased. love it.

thank you

omg lol i can control my cat piki with this. oh wait she died.

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