Ask HN: Do you want Screenhero back? (Screenhero-cofounder here)

#1

Post by jsherwani » Fri, May 24, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

Screenhero (YC W13) was acquired by Slack, and our tech powers Slack Calls. Today, Slack announced it's sunsetting Screenhero-style screen sharing in Slack Calls.

I know there are lots of people that loved Screenhero, and I'm curious if your needs are being met through existing alternatives (Tuple, UseTogether, Zoom). If not, I'm considering working on a successor.

FYI I've been working on rebooting my previous startup in the remote desktop space, and have built Scrn (https://scrn.app) with a small team. But with today's announcement, I'm wondering if there's a far greater need for a Screenhero-style remote work / collaboration product.

Re: Ask HN: Do you want Screenhero back? (Screenhero-cofounder here)

#2

Post by thinksocrates » Fri, May 24, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

I don't think anything is as good as screen hero used to be. The problem that I've had since it's been integrated with Slack is that it often acts like there's not enough bandwidth. Choppy connections, etc. I end up switching to a Google Hangout which will typically work fine.

I think there's some clear space for "remote pair programming" tools.

Re: Ask HN: Do you want Screenhero back? (Screenhero-cofounder here)

#3

Post by kylecordes » Fri, May 24, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

These folks seem to thing there is a market for something like it:

https://tuple.app/

Re: Ask HN: Do you want Screenhero back? (Screenhero-cofounder here)

#4

Post by jsherwani » Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

kylecordes wrote: post #3

These folks seem to thing there is a market for something like it: https://tuple.app/

Tuple's one of the alternatives I meant — I just edited my original post to explicitly mention them along with UseTogether. If the needs are met through tools like this, that's great, but if not, I'm potentially interested in solving this problem permanently.

Re: Ask HN: Do you want Screenhero back? (Screenhero-cofounder here)

#5

Post by davidkneely » Fri, May 24, 2019, 10:33 PM UTC

I loved using Screenhero to pair program with my buddy in SF. I'm in Hawaii. Screenhero was fantastic for taking control of the keyboard and mouse (which is not possible with Google Hangouts). Please bring it back!

Re: Ask HN: Do you want Screenhero back? (Screenhero-cofounder here)

#6

Post by devm0de » Sat, May 25, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

Our company misses screen hero big time, comes up in discussion often. The only suitable replacement we’ve found is vscode liveshare which is actually very good but not everyone wants to use vscode.