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Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by justbaker »

corywatilo wrote: post #57
tarikjn wrote: post #29

I wish this was forked instead of killed. Everytime I use Screenhero, it has been butter smooth. I would be ready to pay $3/month for screenhero standalone or a pay-per-use. I'm not interested in Slack, the use cases are clearly different. I think Slack missed or rather killed an opportunity here, they could have kept Screenhero (and use it to upsell Slack) and also integrated it in Slack. Not only that but it took t…

+1 Screenhero was the best way for me to remotely support my parents computers. I know there are a thousand tools out there for this, but Screenhero was so incredibly simple that it beat out everything else.

+1 That's a great use case ^

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by carusooneliner »

While this Slack feature is meant for live screensharing, remote teams also need a way to record and share screencasts outside of live meetings. My cofounder and I having faced timezone inflicted pain in remote teams before, wanted to scratch our itch, and built a solution for anyone to easily record and share screencasts. If you feel remote work pain, do check us out at https://checkoutclip.com. Interested to hear thoughts.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by macintux »

hbosch wrote: post #32
Osiris wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why has "smooth as butter" become such an overly used phrase in the tech world? Listening to the last Apple product release I must have heard the word butter a few dozen times. I don't know about anyone else but this phrase is really starting to annoy me. It's overly used, and the word "butter" in my mind is closer to "greasy", like "don't touch it with your finger because it'll get slimy and you'll have to wash your…

"Smooth as butter", "smoother than butter", "butter smooth", et al is a common western phrase. It's as old or older than the King James Bible itself (Psalms 55:21 if you're curious). It's a quintessential English idiom.

Well, the username of the complainant is "Osiris", so the phrase might still be new for him.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by macintux »

49531 wrote: post #35
jsherwani wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screenhero co-founder here. We're committed to making Slack Calls better, and have a number of upcoming improvements in the works.

Yea I found the window a bit harder to control as well. I'm also really bummed because I'm not sure how I am going to help my little sister learn to code now that we can't screenhero together. Not gonna make a paid slack channel just for that.

If you're both on Macs (I know, not a safe assumption) there's a trivial screen sharing facility built in.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by ledbettj »

eikenberry wrote: post #17
giovannibajo1 wrote: post #5

When is videocalling and screensharing coming to Linux?

Slack's beta Linux client already supports video calling and screen sharing.

Does not seem to work under Wayland. You can see the mouse pointer, but the rest of the screen is black.

Haven't tried it under X yet.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by hsod »

jlehuraux wrote: post #60
tarikjn wrote: post #29

I wish this was forked instead of killed. Everytime I use Screenhero, it has been butter smooth. I would be ready to pay $3/month for screenhero standalone or a pay-per-use. I'm not interested in Slack, the use cases are clearly different. I think Slack missed or rather killed an opportunity here, they could have kept Screenhero (and use it to upsell Slack) and also integrated it in Slack. Not only that but it took t…

Have you tried USE Together? Collaborative screen sharing with multiple mouse cursors and simple web browser access. Currently in free beta, we are working hard on Mac support, coming really soon :) http://www.use-together.com

Note that this user appears to work for the company which makes this product

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by mk89 »

philwelch wrote: post #36
davideous wrote: post #19

Stand-alone ScreenHero sharing is smooth as butter -- truly amazing. Controlling a remote computer feels local. Right now I'm using the slack-integrated "ScreenHero", and it's really laggy. This is super disappointing, and painful to use. It's actually making the mouse pointer of the person sharing lag for them. Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance.

> Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance. Given the shitty performance of the Slack desktop client (which basically only does IRC with gifs and emoji), I'm not too confident in their ability to improve the performance of, well, anything.

1gb of ram for an IRC client.... I don't know... :|

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by samstave »

tarikjn wrote: post #29

I wish this was forked instead of killed. Everytime I use Screenhero, it has been butter smooth. I would be ready to pay $3/month for screenhero standalone or a pay-per-use. I'm not interested in Slack, the use cases are clearly different. I think Slack missed or rather killed an opportunity here, they could have kept Screenhero (and use it to upsell Slack) and also integrated it in Slack. Not only that but it took t…

What I really need are disposable slacks.

Think of a group text with random emails and etc and it simply raises up a slack with all the parties invited and owned by the creator - then you can choose to dissolve or make perm the slack as needed...

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by zymhan »

mk89 wrote: post #67
philwelch wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance. Given the shitty performance of the Slack desktop client (which basically only does IRC with gifs and emoji), I'm not too confident in their ability to improve the performance of, well, anything.

1gb of ram for an IRC client.... I don't know... :|

That's what happens when you bundle an entire web browser
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