# umarz317/WatchPointer

> Turns an Apple Watch into a laser-pointer-style mouse for a Mac: aim the watch at the screen to move the cursor, tap to click, hold to drag, over a direct Bluetooth link with no Wi-Fi or servers.

- Magnitude: 4.2 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 258 total · +4 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:02–01:28 UTC, ≈ 48 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: Swift · License: MIT · Created: 2026-11-05 · Last push: 2026-11-07
- GitHub: https://github.com/umarz317/WatchPointer · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/umarz317/WatchPointer

## Useful for

- Control a Mac cursor from across the room while presenting slides
- Click and drag on a Mac without touching a trackpad or mouse
- Try the included Sky Shot light-gun game with the watch as the gun

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:02–01:28: 254 → 258 stars (+4). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +48 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 258 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @brandonmcconnell (280 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 20
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 3
- Average over the last week: 61 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-05 … 2026-11-09: 6, 74, 133, 46, 4

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-08 5.7, 11-09 4.2

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-09 01:38 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.