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Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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

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Post by tedyoung »

coscreen wrote: post #19
_fat_santa wrote: post #16

Hey! This looks awesome! Let me ask I did not see any pricing or any license info on the site. I was wondering what the pricing for this would look like for a team? Are you planning on keeping it free?

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!)

I'd love to replace Zoom, but as a trainer/coach, I use it only on a weekly basis with multiple people, I guess you'd call them "strangers" (though they might be "regulars"). I'm unclear about how the pricing works in this situation, i.e., what does CoScreen consider a "user"?

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

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Post by mrleinad »

seinfish wrote: post #78
mrleinad wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 con…

Connecting with 2 users would work. I would still need to resize the window I'm sharing (the reason I have that big ass monitor is to use VS maximized and have everything open), but it's easier than resizing all windows.

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

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Post by spockz »

coscreen wrote: post #19
_fat_santa wrote: post #16

Hey! This looks awesome! Let me ask I did not see any pricing or any license info on the site. I was wondering what the pricing for this would look like for a team? Are you planning on keeping it free?

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!)

We are a pretty large org and especially for major incident resolution I see coscreen work. However, in order for it to be used during majors the software should be readily available for the engineers. On the other side I can also imagine being challenged why we would need to pay seats for all our users.

Will there be an option for something like floating licenses or being billed after the fact?

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

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Post by abdrehman »

digitalsanctum wrote: post #47
burningion wrote: post #24

I got to use this internally when I was at Datadog. It really is a great flow / experience for collaboration. Congrats to the team on the launch / shipping. (And yes, make Linux please!)

+1 for Linux

+1 for linux

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

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Post by vxNsr »

bentcorner wrote: post #66
mrleinad wrote: post #3

Is there a way to share a portion of the screen if I want to? Or is it just entire windows?

I do this using OBS + a dummy plug on my GPU (I run Windows). 1. My dummy plug "monitor" is to the top right of my main ultra-wide - I do this so it's impossible to get "real" windows into it. 2. I have a scene in OBS that has the display capture of my main desktop as a source, and top/left align it with the window. 3. I set my output to 1920x1080 (1366x768 works too but it's a little too small). 4. I set the resolut…

Yea this is kinda nutty as a solution. How often does it break?

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

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Post by kxrm »

coscreen wrote: post #36
davbryn wrote: post #31

How are account permissions handled on the host machines that are relinquishing control to outside users? I mean, what prevents a Malicious user pasting in a devastating command into your terminal if they are running under your privileges? Or a mistaken user copy and pasting a bad command?

Good question - If you share your window or display on CoScreen, you can decide if you also want to share remote control or not. It’s a global toggle for all the windows you share. Also, only users who have the invite to your CoScreen (and therefore have a secure token to get into it) and are with you in it at that moment, would be able to type into your window if you allowed that.

It would be nice to set control settings from the host on a per window basis.

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

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Post by andyfleming »

burningion wrote: post #24

I got to use this internally when I was at Datadog. It really is a great flow / experience for collaboration. Congrats to the team on the launch / shipping. (And yes, make Linux please!)

I'm not too familiar with all of the features of coscreen, but I've been really enjoying Tuple and it has a linux client beta. https://tuple.app/downloads/linux

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

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Post by chadlavi »

Seems neat but this website is really terrible at explaining what the product is or why I'd want to use it. The homepage looks like a spammy blog landing page? give me a big hero image (ideally an autoplay no-audio video acting like a gif) and like, 10 words and some links to more details. Also no info on pricing?
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