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Re: Show HN: Frop.io, instant remote presentations. In your Browser

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Post by derwildemomo »

Hi HN!

https://frop.io is a simple application that allows you to present content (PDF presentations, Images, Text, YouTube videos) on a remote screen without installing any software. It's completely based on web standards (Websockets, JS) and runs in most modern browsers.

Simply start a session by calling frop.io/[yoursessionname]

I posted this two weeks ago. Since then I've completely overhauled the design and built a native tvOS and Fire TV viewer app (both free and publicly available).

Once again, looking forward to your comments, suggestions and criticism.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Frop.io, instant remote presentations. In your Browser

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Post by derwildemomo »

moondev wrote: post #3

Looks cool. Would be nice to be able to drag a pptx or google slides link which would unpack the images or slides automatically. Then you could use arrow keys to easily advance the stream. May be outside the scope for simplicity though

Ha, I'd actually love that. Google Slides should be in the realm of possible things, PPTX could get more complicated.

What I suggest you try is to upload a PDF. I've built a moderator mode on the presenting screen, there you can do exactly what you want (just not with a PPT but with a PDF-Presentation).

The reason is that PDF can be rendered very consistently across platforms, this is more problematic with Powerpoint and friends.

Re: Show HN: Frop.io, instant remote presentations. In your Browser

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Post by derwildemomo »

nojvek wrote: post #5

This is great. Does it do any screensharing?

Not really, I think there are better and more mature tools for doing that (like appear.in or Skype) out there. frop.io is quite special in that it does not do screensharing at all, but just transmits the content, being super bandwidth-conserving.

Re: Show HN: Frop.io, instant remote presentations. In your Browser

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Post by CDillinger »

I love this concept, and it's great to see the current support for dragging and dropping images and PDFs.

I was checking out the functionality and tried dropping a couple different formats into the host screen (Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, .txt files), and the host screen would either do nothing or get stuck on the validating screen. I'm guessing this is because these aren't currently supported types. If this is the case, I'd suggest notifying the host that the file type is not supported.

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