Show HN: Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime

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Post by cooop » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 1:47 PM UTC

We just launched Nextprev.it — A project we put together over a couple of days.

The project stemmed from a frustration with PDF file transfers and screen-sharing when giving design presentations to clients through Skype.

Please give it a go and let us know what you think - @nextprev

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Show HN: Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime
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Post by jongold » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 1:52 PM UTC

I've been testing this for the past week or so - used it for a couple of client presentations and it's absolutely fantastic.

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Post by sync » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:02 PM UTC

Neat idea. It'd be nice if you could see how many other people were viewing the presentation and perhaps even chat with them.

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Post by cooop » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:06 PM UTC

sync wrote: post #3

Neat idea. It'd be nice if you could see how many other people were viewing the presentation and perhaps even chat with them.

Definitely a feature we have planned for the near future as well as some handy pro features.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Post by gawker » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:10 PM UTC

Very nice. I did something similar as well a couple of weeks ago but didn't publish it. Good job!

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Post by tehwebguy » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:19 PM UTC

This is very cool!

It's not really the same purpose but a cool feature to me would be a sponsorship / deck feature so you can send it out to see who views it individually. So you can see which potential sponsors actually look at the info you send, and which pages.

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Post by lewisflude » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:23 PM UTC

Pretty awesome, does it come in black?

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Post by dfamorato » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:25 PM UTC

Very very nice, congratulations ! Could you share a little bit of the technologies used ? How to you make every browser go to the same page ? Do you think this would be possible with video as well, like making sure everybody is at the same point on a video ?

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Post by heeton » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:30 PM UTC

dfamorato wrote: post #9

Very very nice, congratulations ! Could you share a little bit of the technologies used ? How to you make every browser go to the same page ? Do you think this would be possible with video as well, like making sure everybody is at the same point on a video ?

We host the PDFs on AmazonS3, and use PDJ.js to render them on the page. To keep everyone on the same page, we use websocket events via Pusher. Video would be quite different, so we don't have any plans for that now.