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Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by chime »

judge2020 wrote: post #57
coscreen wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! It's currently free but we're planning to charge for larger teams and enterprise features further down the road. Our current plan: https://coscreen.co/pricing (feedback welcome!)

The main issue I see is Single Sign-On being gated behind enterprise pricing, and a "please contact our sales team" option no less. Big enterprises can happily pay whatever you ask for SSO, but this mainly hurts the medium-sized businesses that only set up SSO if it's convenient; if it costs a lot more, they'll settle for the reduced security of username+password auth. If anything, supporting the big 3 identity provi…

Second this. SAML/SSO is less of an enterprise feature and more of an onboarding escalator. Even startups with 3 devs use SSO now.

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by coscreen »

chime wrote: post #71
judge2020 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main issue I see is Single Sign-On being gated behind enterprise pricing, and a "please contact our sales team" option no less. Big enterprises can happily pay whatever you ask for SSO, but this mainly hurts the medium-sized businesses that only set up SSO if it's convenient; if it costs a lot more, they'll settle for the reduced security of username+password auth. If anything, supporting the big 3 identity provi…

Second this. SAML/SSO is less of an enterprise feature and more of an onboarding escalator. Even startups with 3 devs use SSO now.

Good catch, this got actually much easier for us to do recently as you can now sign in with SSO through Datadog. So if you sign up to Datadog with any SSO provider, you should be able to login to CoScreen with just two clicks. We corrected that on our pricing page as well.

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by philsnow »

chime wrote: post #71
judge2020 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main issue I see is Single Sign-On being gated behind enterprise pricing, and a "please contact our sales team" option no less. Big enterprises can happily pay whatever you ask for SSO, but this mainly hurts the medium-sized businesses that only set up SSO if it's convenient; if it costs a lot more, they'll settle for the reduced security of username+password auth. If anything, supporting the big 3 identity provi…

Second this. SAML/SSO is less of an enterprise feature and more of an onboarding escalator. Even startups with 3 devs use SSO now.

From a different perspective, SSO is an offboarding guardrail.

I worked at a company that used Slack before they had SSO working. One person left the company and there was speculation as to reasons etc on various slack channels. Two or three weeks later, they piped up with one more "goodbye" in a public channel... and then actually signed out.

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by coscreen »

judge2020 wrote: post #57
coscreen wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! It's currently free but we're planning to charge for larger teams and enterprise features further down the road. Our current plan: https://coscreen.co/pricing (feedback welcome!)

The main issue I see is Single Sign-On being gated behind enterprise pricing, and a "please contact our sales team" option no less. Big enterprises can happily pay whatever you ask for SSO, but this mainly hurts the medium-sized businesses that only set up SSO if it's convenient; if it costs a lot more, they'll settle for the reduced security of username+password auth. If anything, supporting the big 3 identity provi…

See our separate comment on SSO through Okta, this is actually available out of the box through login with Datadog and we've corrected the pricing page. Thanks again for the pointer.

We'd like to keep CoScreen affordable for those teams and are planning to factor it into the pricing model once we put one in place. Drop me a mail if you have specific requirements (till@coscreen.co).

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by philsnow »

coscreen wrote: post #29
itslennysfault wrote: post #27

Looks cool, but how is this better / different from just doing this on Zoom? I'm already using zoom daily for meetings and occasionally use screen sharing and once in a while use their "request screen control" feature, and it works great. No complaints, and no new tool needed in addition to my regular video meeting tool. Not at all hating on this tool. It really looks nice, but I'm just trying to understand if there…

Thanks for the feedback. We have a few Zoom-converts and here's what they've told us they like about CoScreen: 1. Every user has their own mouse pointer instead of sharing the same. 2. You can share bi-directionally, so not just one at a time. 3. More importantly, if I share two or three windows with you, they appear as three separate native windows for you and you can resize and position them as you like without int…

> and you can resize and position them as you like without interfering with me

Does this resize the window only locally, like scaling a video? If somebody shared a browser window with me demonstrating a responsive web site, could I drag the bottom right corner of the window around to see how the site reflows?

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by seinfish »

mrleinad wrote: post #64
coscreen wrote: post #4

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Currently only entire displays and specific windows (one or multiple of them). But happy to look into this - what would you share only partially for example?

Specifically, I have a 49" ultrawide monitor and a VM in it. If I share the entire VM, other people with smaller monitors see it too small and have to zoom. If I resize the VM, I have to reposition my windows inside it. It's easier to share a portion of the screen, it's what I do in Zoom. A portion of a window would work too.

Max here from CoScreen. I'm with you, sharing a portion of the screen or window would be very useful for this scenario. I can also imagine running CoScreen from the VM itself, but that would only work for Mac and Windows VMs at this point (Audio and video could still go through your physical machine —— i.e. you would connect with two users). We also have a headless Linux client in the pipeline that could serve to connect the VM directly.

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by lanstein »

coscreen wrote: post #46
xeno42 wrote: post #42

Congrats on 5.0 - CoScreen has been an integral part of our team's daily workflow for the last couple of years, and it's been wonderful to to be able to share feedback and see the product evolve into a better and better tool. Having to share screens occasionally via Zoom feels so slow and clunky by comparison to the single-click ability for multiple people to share and interact with windows concurrently as the conver…

Glad you stuck with us from early on!

We <3 CoScreen!
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