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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.

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Post by chops »

ttruong wrote: post #35
chops wrote: post #16

Three thoughts: 1) Can I safely assume you're working on a way to share desktop control, for things like tech support? Seems like the next semi-major logical step. 2) Out of curiosity, how do you plan to monetize this beast? Freemium, with a more feature-rich paid version (voip, desktop control, etc)? Or...something else? 3) Very cool. Great job guys!

1) We want to really nail the screen sharing experience first and make it work reliably for everyone. Remote desktop control and live collaboration are follow-up ideas that we are definitely looking into. 2) Freemium is one option that we are considering. We want to keep focusing on reducing the time it takes to share a screen and see what kind of use cases emerge before deciding on how to monetize it. Besides freemi…

Great responses. Best of luck to you guys. I'll be sure to bookmark your stuff and follow the progress, and if/when I come across a screen-sharing need, I'll definitely use yours.

Another option for you for monetizing: customer rebranding. For a couple bucks a month, you can use your own logo and/or color scheme and/or stylesheet. Though I'm sure that's at least been considered.

Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

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Post by ttruong »

LearnYouALisp wrote: post #39
ttruong wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) We want to really nail the screen sharing experience first and make it work reliably for everyone. Remote desktop control and live collaboration are follow-up ideas that we are definitely looking into. 2) Freemium is one option that we are considering. We want to keep focusing on reducing the time it takes to share a screen and see what kind of use cases emerge before deciding on how to monetize it. Besides freemi…

Have you tried using PNG or GIF compression? The presumably JPEG compression right now has many artifacts.

That's something we are looking into. We think that there will be different optimal image formats depending upon the use case (i.e., are you sharing an illustration or a photo). We want to see what those use cases are before optimizing.

Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

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Post by aidenn0 »

ttruong wrote: post #28
manuscreationis wrote: post #17

Mind 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…

Really? It's more like "Here's a link, click on it and enter your name and e-mail address" then accept the java applet. Takes maybe 2 minutes.

Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

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Post by alexholehouse »

One privacy enhancement which would be nice would be to see a list of IPs viewing the screen. Not sure how easy it would be to implement, but would give me total peace of mind to know only 1 IP is viewing (if that's what I'm expecting).

Stellar job though - no barrier to use whatsoever.

Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

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Post by aresant »

Beautiful product, dead simple and I'd use this over Join.me which I see as your closest competition for quick screen sharing.

GOOG & Skype are also getting a lot faster on their feet in this space.

I'm intimately familiar with this landscape as we're preparing to launch our FREE webinar platform, http://www.MeetingBurner.com, in the very near future after ~1yr in beta.

Our target is the "webinar" space which includes all the trimmings like registrations, invitations, bundled conference lines / skype / telephony, analytics, pay walls, etc.

But we have a solid contingent of users that just want screen sharing 90% of the time and I love your focus on "2 clicks to start a meeting" etc.

Elegant solution and good luck.

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