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CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by thedracle »

hypermachine wrote: post #68
DEGoodmanWilson wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screenhero engineer here, and currently working with CoScreen. TBH, Tuple adn Screen both seek to re-create Screenhero (and do an amazing job of that!) CoScreen, while using similar technology, has completely rethought the UI from the ground up, and is a huge step forward that the others are going to have a hard time catching up with. Instead of one person sharing their screen, with CoScreen, each participant can sha…

Tech question: do you plug in to the native compositing UI system or do you have your own cross-platform UI compositing code?

We use a custom native compositor on both of the current supported operating systems.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by antoniuschan99 »

Really glad to see this.

I use MS Teams at work at a large organization and Microsoft really has everything tightly integrated well. Their screen sharing/remote control is very functional. I haven't used VS Code Pair Programming yet, but again, assume it's very functional as well.

Zooms domination is really interesting since the Enterprise Chat war is pretty much lost between Slack and Microsoft. So the market is really for Startups and Small-Medium Organizations.

With this new crop of Remote Collaboration Services, is this a battle against Zoom, or Retribution against Slack after they Sunset Screenhero?

Screen.so - Slack Integration. $10/mth/user when it's not free anymore. Designed for many people at once?

Tuple - No Integration, and the main page "calls out" Zoom and Slack. $25/mth/user. Designed mainly for Pair Programming?

CoScreen - Integration with Slack and Zoom. $18/mth/user when it's not free anymore. Designed for many people at once. Website is rich in information for many possible use cases.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by hypermachine »

thedracle wrote: post #81
hypermachine wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tech question: do you plug in to the native compositing UI system or do you have your own cross-platform UI compositing code?

We use a custom native compositor on both of the current supported operating systems.

What's your stack? Mostly C++?

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by patpatpat »

corytheboyd wrote: post #15

I'm not sure how to ask this question in a way that doesn't sound snarky, so having said that I'll try: At the end of the day, is this beneficial enough to justify a completely new product versus just sharing your screen/window over Zoom (etc.)? When I'm pairing, I prefer to have a single "driver" where the pair is there to work through the bigger ideas and course correct code level decisions. I've never really wishe…

We use TeamViewer which offers multiple user keyboard and mouse control and it is awesome. We can pair or mob and handover control instantly, we usually set a 5-7 minute timer and rotate through the team to keep everyone engaged.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by Hiopl »

coscreen wrote: post #78
mcstafford wrote: post #77

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I see download options for Mac and Windows. Is Linux support in the works? Slack and Teams have us covered.

Linux support is indeed on the roadmap. We've got Windows done only last week and we'll get at it next... Happy to keep you in the loop, here's the sign up: https://form.typeform.com/to/tWKFDe

Ah, a bit of a shame that it isn't supported yet. This looks like something that might interest my team and I would've loved to try it, but we're all on Linux. Looking forward to hearing about that being implemented.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by vincentmarle »

DEGoodmanWilson wrote: post #54
woah wrote: post #27

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There used to be an app called ScreenHero, which did. this, and it was really great. For some reason Slack bought it and killed it, but I think it validated the use case

First, as employee number one at Screenhero…thank you for the kind words :D I'm immensely proud of the tech we built there. Second, if you liked Screenhero, you're going to love CoScreen. Instead of sharing one computer's entire desktop, CoScreen lets each participant share their own windows onto everyone else's computer, effectively creating a shared desktop. It's pretty magical.

That was not clear from the landing page at all, but if you describe it like that it sounds pretty impressive.

Re: CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

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Post by wdb »

corytheboyd wrote: post #15

I'm not sure how to ask this question in a way that doesn't sound snarky, so having said that I'll try: At the end of the day, is this beneficial enough to justify a completely new product versus just sharing your screen/window over Zoom (etc.)? When I'm pairing, I prefer to have a single "driver" where the pair is there to work through the bigger ideas and course correct code level decisions. I've never really wishe…

If it saves me from the struggle of keeping a screen share working in Zoom I think it's worth it :) My experience is that Zoom suddenly just stops streaming the video to the other participants
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