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Produck Hunt — Duck Hunt + iPhone + Product Hunt
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This is so awesome @gkoberger! Any plans to share the library you built for the phone/browser syncing?
@gentlemanbasil it's really crappy JS :) but yeah, I'm gonna post it on GitHub soon
It's the Product Hunt Hackathon. I wanted to serve both masters: hackathons, and Product Hunt.
For the hack part, I wrote a library that let you control a mouse on the screen using just an iPhone and a web browser. You can move your phone around, and it move the arrow on the screen.
For the Product Hunt half, I couldn't pass up an opportunity for a Duck Hunt parody. You play Duck Hunt just like you normally would – except using an iPhone instead of a tacky orange gun. And instead of hunting for ducks, you hunt for.. you guessed it.. products.
@gkoberger https://twitter.com/producthunt
I have 5 old NES's sitting about 3 feet away from me, and so have always been overjoyed at the Product Hunt twitter background being Duck Hunt, but never made the connection.
@afkehaya @gkoberger Just redid the homepage to make it more obvious what it does (I was only thinking about the in-person demo when I made it :) )
Long term, no plans – I was a bit overwhelmed by my real startup, and just wanted to spend a weekend making something fun!
@imkialikethecar no, but I wish I had known about it! it doesn't seem to do what I needed (actually moving a cursor on the screen using the accelerometer), but still cool.
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