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

#11
Excellent.I was working on a similar personal project. I had these functionalities in mind:

- Gradient / Color full screen mode - Keep remote screen awake - Screenshot preview of remote screens (html5 canvas)

+ Visualizations

It is nice to have a TV/monitor on to use as a light, clock... without having to deal with Chromecast

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

#12

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…

Hi, thank you for your feedback!

You are right, the current feedback mechanics need some love. I'm working on that ;)

Supporting Word, Excel, PPT is also an item on the list, but since we rely on client-only processing, displaying documents consistently across platforms and browsers needs some time and work. But: On it!

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

#13

Excellent.I was working on a similar personal project. I had these functionalities in mind: - Gradient / Color full screen mode - Keep remote screen awake - Screenshot preview of remote screens (html5 canvas) + Visualizations It is nice to have a TV/monitor on to use as a light, clock... without having to deal with Chromecast

I like the gradient/Color-Mode Idea very much. Going to integrate that (with attribution if you don't mind).

Do you have any example regarding the Visualizations? I'm keen to learn more about that and to see if it fits in well.

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

#14

Does this only allow for one viewer per presentation? I can imagine a lot of use-case scenarios with multiple viewers enabled, if at all possible? Nice work though, I can see some uses for this already!

At the moment it's one viewer per presentation, though that limit is quite arbitrary and could be changed in the future.

I thought or considered this to be a nice-to-have but not mandatory feature, but more people keep asking for that. Always good to have some external feedback – thank you!

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

#16

Excellent.I was working on a similar personal project. I had these functionalities in mind: - Gradient / Color full screen mode - Keep remote screen awake - Screenshot preview of remote screens (html5 canvas) + Visualizations It is nice to have a TV/monitor on to use as a light, clock... without having to deal with Chromecast

I like the gradient/Color-Mode Idea very much. Going to integrate that (with attribution if you don't mind). Do you have any example regarding the Visualizations? I'm keen to learn more about that and to see if it fits in well.

Looking forward to seeing it. :)

I don't have examples. I am thinking loop videos, GIFs, or CSS3 animations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27XvZReW_cs http://likethemammal.github.io/css-visualizer/

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

#17
post #15

I tried it and it looks good to me, my only concern was how will be the session name collision is handled?

Sessions are ephemeral – once you close the tab or browser window, the session is gone (and the viewer will go back to the 'waiting for content' screen). This is by design – frop is meant for realtime collaboration or presentations, so having something stick around forever is not really the use case (in my head).
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