Our idea began during the summer of 2010 as a hobby project by two Swedish students. We had a simple goal - to create an easy solution for controlling the programs on your computer from a smartphone. We did not want to create yet another screen sharing solution, but rather give the classic look and feel of a remote control specifically designed for the different programs on your computer. The first release of Unified Remote was a free Android app that contained just over 10 of these remote controls, for a variety of different programs, including Spotify, VLC, Windows Media Player, PowerPoint, Power, etc. After a very positive first release with several thousand downloads in the first few days we decided to continue the hobby project and started developing the next version. In April of 2011 we released the second version of Unified Remote, this time with an improved version of the free app but also a new full version ($3.99) containing many new features and remote controls. With low expectations we were surprised again by the very positive feedback.