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Re: Show HN: Free Screen Share Party, No Install, No Login

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This is HN after all, so no comment thread is complete without a bunch of nitpicking the Web site itself. There's a bunch of grammatical errors on the site (space after exclamation mark, missing words), which prevents me from trusting it. The design is also very... strange. It looks like a mess. (Sorry!) There's that first logo "BA net" which looks pretty bad, like someone took someone elses app icon and used Paint t…

Yes, will polish during the quarantine

I have a different beef :) This is a tool for sharing personal information, but I couldn't spot anything close to an 'about us' / 'contact us', even a twitter link.

I wonder if that's on purpose. Or most people that might use this wouldn't care too much about the details?

Re: Show HN: Free Screen Share Party, No Install, No Login

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Does anyone know of a tool like this for streaming high-quality photos? I’ve been playing some board games with friends using an iPhone on a mic stand - we couldn’t use video streaming tools because the quality has been all over the place (and you can’t zoom in on the board.) So right now we have a simple app that takes a high-quality photo every few seconds and uploads it to a web server where all the players can vi…

I don’t know of one but I really wish there was at least a chromecast app for something like this. Not only isn’t there one but when I checked their API it has a limit of 720p for photos for some reason.

Re: Show HN: Free Screen Share Party, No Install, No Login

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post #25
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, will polish during the quarantine

I have a different beef :) This is a tool for sharing personal information, but I couldn't spot anything close to an 'about us' / 'contact us', even a twitter link. I wonder if that's on purpose. Or most people that might use this wouldn't care too much about the details?

The nice thing about WebRTC is that is p2p. All media info goes direct between users, no middle-man server.

There is some basic information to connect the peers. But we do not store any user info on ba.net. https://ba.net/screen/privacy.html

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