Looks interesting, but I do not run java on my machines so this wont work for me.
Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
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Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#22This looks nice. Is there any way to switch who is sharing their screen among participants? We have weekly meetings for product demos and WebEx allows us to trade of who is the presenter.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#23TeamViewer (free) is not bad but it times out after some time and you have to relaunch the meeting with a new code. Will give this one a try.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#24Cool, but I couldn't close the java 'ScreenLeap' dialog without using chrome's task manager to kill the java plugin. (I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, and chrome 16.0 if that helps) Also, I feel "No downloads, installs" is a little disingenuous - just because it's not installed as a full-time application doesn't mean that it's not downloaded or installed.
Faced the same bug on the same os, browser. And just for fun wanted to see what happens if I open the url in another browser in the same computer ... recursion!
Thanks for heads-up. We'll look it into it.
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#25Very nice, worked flawlessly when I just tested it with a friend (other than having to kill the java process by hand in the end). Thanks in particular for supporting Linux!
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#26This looks nice. Is there any way to switch who is sharing their screen among participants? We have weekly meetings for product demos and WebEx allows us to trade of who is the presenter.
Presenter swap is almost done. We should have it available within the next two weeks.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#27Scary!
Works well, and yes, effortless. Impressive.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#28Mind sharing what your particular frustrations with WebEx are? (Not that I'm defending the product, just curious)
For us, the main frustration was showing your screen to someone who you didn't frequently collaborate with. If they didn't have WebEx installed, you would have to ask them to download and install it, create an account, and then get invited to a meeting. The whole process can take more than 10 minutes which is more than enough for most people to decide that it's not worth the trouble, especially if it's for something like a sales demo.
We want to make it as easy to share your screen with someone as it is to instant message them. If we do, we hope people will start using it frequently throughout the day for all sorts of ad-hoc collaboration.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#29Nice! I just shared a screen from a Linux laptop to a phone with the Dolphin browser and it Just Worked. Pretty high latency though.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#30Two things:
1. It was odd that you can't resize using the top and left borders.
2. I'm using 2 monitors (laptop + monitor) and I can't move the rectangle to the secondary monitory.