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

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Post by robgibbons »

MrQuincle wrote: post #77
OmarIsmail wrote: post #70

This is brilliant. Super easy mental model. Super easy to use (just drag and drop!). No friction. This is going to be big, whether it's you guys (hopefully!) or someone else that steals this idea (boo!) And I wouldn't pay too much attention to the Windows/Linux users in the very early days if it's too much of a development burden. There are tons of tech forward companies that are mac-only that are a large enough mark…

I bet Linux is not even possible. How do you force windows to be at the same location across different systems. I use i3. There are plenty of other tiling managers. This is not gonna be cross-platform. Just my two cents.

Shouldn't be too hard. The wmctrl package, for example, supports a whole bunch of different window managers.

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

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Post by coscreen »

jacobn wrote: post #130
coscreen wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the delay - here's the preorder form ;) (It's actually meant to help us prioritize, thanks in advance for your feedback!) https://shorturl.at/koJX3

Something is wrong with that shorturl - it just takes me to the main https://www.shorturl.at/ webpage.

Thanks for the hint. It works for me on Chrome and Firefox but not on Safari for some weird reason. Here's the full link: https://teamcoscreen.typeform.com/to/IOJ8ql

(Incidentally the issue hopefully only affects Mac/Safari users while the survey is focused on non-Mac users anyway)

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

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Post by seinfish »

jacobn wrote: post #130
coscreen wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the delay - here's the preorder form ;) (It's actually meant to help us prioritize, thanks in advance for your feedback!) https://shorturl.at/koJX3

Something is wrong with that shorturl - it just takes me to the main https://www.shorturl.at/ webpage.

This should one should work: https://teamcoscreen.typeform.com/to/IOJ8ql

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

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Post by coscreen »

armadsen wrote: post #103
googleisevil6 wrote: post #10

I'm curious why somebody would start with a machinetosh? Windows is used way more than machinetosh on developer machines. Is it because: 1) Authors don't know the demographics? or 2) They think that Windows users wouldn't pay? (Not true I think) or some other reason?

It's not called a "machinetosh". It's Macintosh, or Mac for short. Named after the McIntosh variety of apple ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple) ). "Windows is used way more than [Macintosh] on developer machines." - Citation needed. Macs are extremely popular among web developers, and are required for iOS developers, both pretty major categories of "developer".

Thanks for the historic context ;)

Edit: + Stats from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019

Windows: 47.5% MacOS: 26.8% Linux-based: 25.6%

Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

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

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Post by coscreen »

coscreen wrote: post #127
coscreen wrote: post #2

OP here, we believe that the time has come to let remote workers and highly agile teams get stuff done together in a very different and much more natural way. CoScreen is a remote collaboration tool that enables exactly that. Problem: Pretty much anyone who has ever worked remotely knows it - today’s remote collaboration solutions provide much better screensharing quality and reliability (thanks, Zoom) compared to a…

UPDATE 1: Thanks so, so much for the huge interest & valuable feedback, please keep it coming! Here's a quick form for the many folks interested in Windows & Linux support, please help us prioritize: https://shorturl.at/koJX3 UPDATE 2: As mentioned further below, we're also on Product Hunt today - check it out (and let's beat the boring marketing apps): https://www.producthunt.com/posts/coscreen

UPDATE 3: The OS survey link doesn't seem to work on some platforms, please use use the full link: https://teamcoscreen.typeform.com/to/IOJ8ql

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

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Post by omarchowdhury »

egfx wrote: post #129
halfjoking wrote: post #98

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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.

Couldn’t agree more. Yesterday I was browsing the top product of the day to see what future competition was like and the product was a color swatch that gave you similar colors for inspiration. It looked like they mashed together a codepen with a color swatch api I’ve starred but I won’t even bother linking to here. It’s sad for sure.

Could it be that there aren't that many exciting new products coming out? Or is that blasphemy?

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

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Post by lima »

coscreen wrote: post #76
lima wrote: post #75

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So what you're saying is, you don't handle different monitor resolutions. My team is split between people with 4k or even 5k screens and wide-angle screens with lower pixel densities, so this would be an issue. Not sure how common that is, though.

Sorry for the misunderstanding - We do handle the translation of resolutions to create the same layout for everyone. In addition, you can actually pinch zoom into remote windows if necessary.

Got it. Awesome!

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

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Post by lima »

gfodor wrote: post #83
lima wrote: post #72

Excellent idea, brilliantly executed. But as a CTO, I would be concerned about the security implications. It makes sense to route traffic via a central server because P2P does not scale to large numbers of participants (which is why things like the Jitsi Videobridge exist despite WebRTC P2P being a thing), but it means your customers have to trust you not to get hacked, be compelled to, or otherwise misplace/record s…

I am pretty sure that E2E encryption is impossible today if you are using a WebRTC SFU since there's no spec for it. The closest thing is PERC Lite [1] which no browsers support, though maybe you could cobble something together native. Is there some path I didn't know about? 1. https://www.meetecho.com/blog/meetecho-and-cosmo-strike-agai...

I don't know about browsers, but I know that Signal implements E2E-encrypted phone calls using WebRTC for signalling.
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