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Ask HN: How much could some one make if he makes a traditional mobile mouse app?

7 pointsby maksimpiriyevalmost 8 years ago
There is no mobile app as traditional mouse(because of engineering problems), but there is a mouse with iphone touch or gyroscope. How much money a person can possibly benefit if he makes a traditional mouse app for mobile

6 comments

soulchild37almost 8 years ago
You mean something like this ? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;remote-mouse-free-wireless-keyboard-trackpad&#x2F;id385894596?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;remote-mouse-free-wireless-k...</a>
random_moonwalkalmost 8 years ago
Accurately inferring the position of the mouse from its acceleration is a difficult problem (the integration involved will result in rather large errors that compound over time when calculating the velocity and position). I doubt that the return on a &#x27;traditional mouse&#x27; app would reward the effort required to make this work.
anotheryoualmost 8 years ago
I don&#x27;f quite understand what you want ot build. In general a moise only makes sense for screens bigget than a typical mouse-pad or phone screen or look arround stuff like 3D games
2_listerine_plsalmost 8 years ago
I thought about this a long time ago (2009) using the gyros + compass as an IMU. The thing is that the gyros were not as precise back then but things might have changed now.
GhostVIIalmost 8 years ago
Probably not too much. Mice are cheap and everyone has one, I don&#x27;t think there is much market for a phone-based one.
miguelrochefortalmost 8 years ago
I already pair a bluetooth mouse to my phone...