u/Ariochar

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm the solo developer behind LazyBinger, an iOS app that turns your iPhone
into a universal TV remote — and then takes it one lazy step further.

If you've ever thought:

* "Where has the remote gone this time?"
* "I'm not getting up to press Skip Intro."
* "Why do I need five different remote apps for one living room?"

...then LazyBinger was built for you.

Instead of being just another remote, LazyBinger can watch your TV through the
camera. Prop your phone facing the screen and it taps "Skip Intro" and "Next
Episode" for you. You don't move a muscle. Everything runs on your phone —
the camera records nothing and no data ever leaves your Wi-Fi.

Free Features

✅ Universal remote for 12 TV platforms — Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Samsung,
LG, Sony, Google TV, Vizio, Hisense, Panasonic, Philips, Chromecast
✅ One scan finds every TV on your network — no setup, no pairing dance
✅ Full keyboard for Netflix & YouTube searches
✅ Apple Watch remote
✅ Wake-on-LAN, sleep timer, one-tap app launching
✅ No account, no ads, no tracking
✅ Clean dark design, made for watching in bed

LazyBinger Premium Features

⭐ Camera auto-pilot — it reads your TV screen and clicks "Skip Intro" for you
⭐ Voice control — "pause", "louder", "sleepy time", 10+ languages, on-device
⭐ Your own trigger sounds — a finger snap, a whistle
⭐ Chain up to 5 actions behind a single word
⭐ Works with the screen locked

Everything runs locally 🔒

"An app that watches your screen and listens to you" deserves suspicion, so
here's the actual architecture:

🔒 The camera never records. Frames go straight into Apple's Vision framework on your phone, which reads the text on screen, and the frame is discarded.,
🔒Nothing is written to disk, nothing is uploaded.
🔒 It only runs while you've armed it, and stops the moment you disarm it.
🔒 Voice recognition runs on-device too, and the mic is only live while listening mode is on.
🔒 Controlling the TV is plain local networking — the same protocols your TV's
own app uses, over your own Wi-Fi. No account, no login, no server in the
middle.

Put the phone in airplane mode with Wi-Fi on: everything still works. That's
the whole proof.

How to get it 🎁

1. Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6779151585
2. Upvote
3. Comment LazyBinger below

Thanks for checking it out ❤️

On this sub we obsess over screenshot order, captions, A/B tests. The App Store preview video usually gets skipped, even though it autoplays at the top of the listing and moves installs more than the 3rd screenshot ever will. Reason nobody ships one: making it is a pain. Rotato is Mac-only, After Effects is overkill, Figma mockups are static.

I ship a couple of small iOS apps and got tired of that gap, so I built Mockpose (disclosure: I'm the maker, and the preview-optimization angle is the part I'd like this sub's read on).

How it changes the workflow:

• Drop in a screenshot, put it on a real 3D device, animate a camera move, export a frame-perfect preview video (up to 4K / 60fps, MP4 or ProRes, even transparent/alpha).
• Same scene also outputs your static store screenshots, so the video and the stills are visually consistent instead of two disconnected assets.
• Store-shaped export presets (iPhone 6.9" portrait/landscape, Play equivalents), including the wide "combo" frames that split into 2 or 3 panels.
• Captions are per-language variables, so you export one optimized preview + screenshot set per locale in a single pass instead of re-shooting each market.
• It runs in the browser (built for desktop, since you're editing a 3D scene on a timeline). Free to try, no signup.

Two things I'd genuinely like this sub's read on:

1. Does the preview video actually move your conversion, or is it still the first two screenshots doing 90% of the work?
2. If you do ship a preview, what are you making it with today?

EDIT: fair correction in the comment. To be precise, the animated 3D video is a marketing asset (landing page / socials / ads), NOT the App Store Preview slot (Apple wants real on-device footage there). What's store-legit from the same scene is the device-framed screenshots. Leaving the post up with this note.

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm the solo developer behind LazyBinger, an iOS app that turns your iPhone
into a universal TV remote — and then takes it one lazy step further.

If you've ever thought:

* "Where has the remote gone this time?"
* "I'm not getting up to press Skip Intro."
* "Why do I need five different remote apps for one living room?"

...then LazyBinger was built for you.

Instead of being just another remote, LazyBinger can watch your TV through the
camera. Prop your phone facing the screen and it taps "Skip Intro" and "Next
Episode" for you. You don't move a muscle. Everything runs on your phone —
the camera records nothing and no data ever leaves your Wi-Fi.

Free Features

✅ Universal remote for 12 TV platforms — Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Samsung,
LG, Sony, Google TV, Vizio, Hisense, Panasonic, Philips, Chromecast
✅ One scan finds every TV on your network — no setup, no pairing dance
✅ Full keyboard for Netflix & YouTube searches
✅ Apple Watch remote
✅ Wake-on-LAN, sleep timer, one-tap app launching
✅ No account, no ads, no tracking
✅ Clean dark design, made for watching in bed

LazyBinger Premium Features

⭐ Camera auto-pilot — it reads your TV screen and clicks "Skip Intro" for you
⭐ Voice control — "pause", "louder", "sleepy time", 10+ languages, on-device
⭐ Your own trigger sounds — a finger snap, a whistle
⭐ Chain up to 5 actions behind a single word
⭐ Works with the screen locked

Everything runs locally 🔒

"An app that watches your screen and listens to you" deserves suspicion, so
here's the actual architecture:

🔒 The camera never records. Frames go straight into Apple's Vision framework on your phone, which reads the text on screen, and the frame is discarded.,
🔒Nothing is written to disk, nothing is uploaded.
🔒 It only runs while you've armed it, and stops the moment you disarm it.
🔒 Voice recognition runs on-device too, and the mic is only live while listening mode is on.
🔒 Controlling the TV is plain local networking — the same protocols your TV's
own app uses, over your own Wi-Fi. No account, no login, no server in the
middle.

Put the phone in airplane mode with Wi-Fi on: everything still works. That's
the whole proof.

How to get it 🎁

1. Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6779151585
2. Upvote
3. Comment LazyBinger below

Thanks for checking it out ❤️

I build a lot of apps, and I've always loved Rotato for App Store / landing-page videos. But it's a native Mac app, and most of my day lives in the browser — I kept wishing I could make a quick 3D device animation without launching a heavy app, and ideally without needing a Mac at all.

So I built Mockpose — a web studio for 3D mockups & videos of Apple devices:

• Runs in the browser — no install, no signup to try it
• Drop in a screenshot → an animated device video for the App Store, your landing page, or social
• Apple device library, camera + device animations, animated backgrounds
• Localize once — write your captions per language and export one video / screenshot set per App Store locale
• Export videos with a transparent background — drop a device straight onto a website or inside an app
• The odd part: an AI / MCP mode — I can describe a shot to Claude and it builds the scene

It's free to try (generous free tier; the paid plan unlocks the AI + higher-res exports). I'd genuinely love feedback on the animation quality and whether it fits your screenshot / preview workflow.

Hey r/SideProject 👋 Full disclosure: solo dev, this one's mine.

You know those "free" TV remote apps that work for about three taps, then demand a weekly subscription? (A weekly sub. For a remote.) That's what set me off. So I built the opposite of that.

LazyBinger turns your iPhone into a universal remote for ~12 TV brands — Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, LG, Sony, Google TV, Vizio, Hisense… The entire remote is free forever: no account, no weekly sub, nothing ever leaves your Wi-Fi. The exact thing other apps paywall is just… free here.

Then I got carried away:

• 📺 It auto-skips intros for you. Prop the phone facing the TV and it watches the screen through the camera. When "Skip Intro" or "Next Episode" shows up, it reads the text on-device (Apple's Vision OCR) and fires the tap to your TV. You literally do nothing. (Started with image/template matching → nightmare. Switched to text-only OCR with fuzzy matching + a "the word has to dominate its line" rule, so a subtitle like "we should skip ahead" doesn't trigger it. Way more robust.)
• 🎙️ Voice control. Say "play", "pause", "mute", "night night" — yep, "night night" turns the TV off. On-device speech that keeps listening even with the phone locked, screen off.
• 🔒 It runs from your Lock Screen. While it's listening you get a Lock Screen + Dynamic Island card — your last command, the connected TV, and a mini-remote (arrows + OK) — so you can run the TV without unlocking or even opening the app.
• ⌚ The whole remote's on the Apple Watch too, for when reaching for the phone is simply too much.

Everything runs on-device — no server, no account, the camera records nothing.

Two honest caveats, because someone will ask: leaning on the camera + mic chews through battery, so I keep the phone plugged in and propped up for a binge. And voice can occasionally false-trigger on TV dialogue (a character says "pause" and… well, pause) — setting your own longer, custom magic words shuts that down.

The remote and the Watch app are free forever. The camera auto-skip and voice control are the paid upgrade, and there's a one-time lifetime option, not just a subscription — I'm not about to become the thing I built this to escape 😅

Clip below is the auto-skip doing its thing in one continuous shot. Happy to take any questions or feedback — what would actually make this useful for your binges? Link's in the comments 👇