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Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

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Have you tried using PNG or GIF compression? The presumably JPEG compression right now has many artifacts.

That's something we are looking into. We think that there will be different optimal image formats depending upon the use case (i.e., are you sharing an illustration or a photo). We want to see what those use cases are before optimizing.

If you do so, add ability to reduce # of colors to speed up refreshes. Clients to whose machines I am connecting to often have lousy upload bandwidth. I'm not sure how hard is it to send events (window move/resize, mouse move etc.) instead of compressed image of invalidated screen region. Even if that's usable only in special cases, it's worth doing.

Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

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Please ditch the generic stock photo of a lady on a broken laptop on the beach. It makes your site look like a cheap travel agency. Go for a home computer setting or even an office setting. Like one of these or something. http://us.fotolia.com/id/28015494 http://us.fotolia.com/id/35919645 http://us.fotolia.com/id/27612067

I think the beach photo is great. It says "focus is on humans, not on computers", "ease of use". I would really not put a photo of just a laptop up there unless you are selling laptops.
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