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.
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? :)
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
