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Re: Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

#91

Is it possible to default to sharing in read-only mode? I've got plenty of stuff I'd be happy to share with other people to let them look, but I don't want them messing things up. I'd be fine allowing them write access on a per-user/per-window basis, but I'd like to default to read-only.

We decided for an "open-first" approach unlike most other apps but are considering adding a flag to configure this. Feedback welcome!

Re: Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

#92

How do you handle/plan to handle accessibility? If it grows, Sooner or later, a company which needs a11y for legal reasons might consider your product, so it's important.

We're actually using macOS accessibility APIs to manage local and remote windows and are therefore optimistic we can sort this out - eg by moving windows via keyboard. Detailed requirements are welcome!

Re: Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

#93

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I don't want to make this a game of one upmanship but I'd be surprised if there are GUI things you could do on a machinetosh that you cannot do on Windows.

Agreed, hopefully Windows will be easier though. Getting mac done well gets harder with every macOS update...

Windows APIs give great info about size and position of windows. Challenging part is really the per monitor scaling, but it’s not impossible either. Great product, top work

Re: Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

#95

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Thanks for your feedback. We felt that it's hard to get the concept across without showing both clients. But thanks again for the input, we'll show the real interactions more prominently.

If you just show people using it for real work you will be okay

True, will do!

Re: Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

#97
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On the Mac, could you assign a "spaces" virtual desktop to be shared with coscreen? Then you can just 3 finger swipe between a private screen and the shared one.

Could do this with windows 10 and its "virtual desktop" too!

Yeah we're considering this as it's indeed quite consistent between mac & windows but it will take a while to figure out...

Re: Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

#98
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I think the go to rate was $5k, this is maybe 6 months ago. It was a friend who told me after they asked a famous ex-Uber employee to hunt them

That's why I have never found a single useful product on ProductHunt for years now. It has become an absolute farce that it should be illegal.

I was just thinking how much PH has turned to shit lately when I saw this in #2 spot today:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linkbuildr-for-wordpress

Really? A Wordpress "Linkbuildr" that automates spamming emails when you write posts? And nothing but praise in the comments? PH has become a joke and we definitely need some ethical competition in the product discovery space.

Re: Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

#100

So basically this just turns a second display into a screen share where multiple users can share their app windows? Seems like this could have been tackled 95% with existing open source software and supported on multiple platforms.

Given that another commenter likened CoScreen to Dropbox in that it is an "amazing idea executed brilliantly" it seems only fair that they've already got their very own Dropbox comment now.

95% isn't 100%. A mere assemblage of tools isn't a finished, polished, well-designed, reliable product.

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