Wow, that's really slick! Any plans to license the software for use in other products? It would make a great addition to some help desk software...
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.
#52So I had more than 110 viewers at one point, and also screenleaped into someone else who was screeleaping my screenleap: http://yfrog.com/z/oe15628524p
The product was effortlessly easy to run. Obviously there was a usage overload but otherwise, people were able to watch me Tweet and screenleap into other people's screenleaps in real time (and also watch me scroll through cat gifs). Extremely well done, bravo!
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#53If I hadn't found http://join.me a few months ago I'd be jumping up and down right now. This is just as effortless, great job there. I'd suggest making the two options: share a screen, and join a session stand out even more from the rest of the homepage.
Join.me attempts to serve me a .exe file when on my GNU/Linux computers. Useless.
Horror!
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#54I have been using https://join.me/ and pretty happy with it. How is this different from https://join.me/ ?
For join.me, you need to have Flash installed to view someone's screen. Screenleap allows you to view from any device with a web browser, whether it be a PC, tablet, or smartphone. In the same way that you don't worry about what email program someone is on before sending them an email, we want to make it so you don't have to worry about what device a person is on before showing them your screen.
Join.me does have an iPad and iPhone app... but this is a lot easier.
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#56Join.me has been my goto replacement for webex. This operates exactly like join.me - however I like join.me's shorter URLs - I would suggest copying a format similar to theirs. However I really like the "share whats in the rectangle" feature.
join.me doesn't run on my computer, it tries to give me a useless .exe file. This one, screenlap.com, worked out like it said it would.
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#57This is a great idea and very well implemented. I too would like to see an API of sorts. Maybe a white-label screen sharing service. Good luck!
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#58I have been using https://join.me/ and pretty happy with it. How is this different from https://join.me/ ?
For join.me, you need to have Flash installed to view someone's screen. Screenleap allows you to view from any device with a web browser, whether it be a PC, tablet, or smartphone. In the same way that you don't worry about what email program someone is on before sending them an email, we want to make it so you don't have to worry about what device a person is on before showing them your screen.
How do you plan to compete with LogMeIn once they have an HTML viewer? Which they either already have or will have and very soon.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#59Join.me has been my goto replacement for webex. This operates exactly like join.me - however I like join.me's shorter URLs - I would suggest copying a format similar to theirs. However I really like the "share whats in the rectangle" feature.
Thanks for the suggestion on the URL. When we eventually support accounts, we plan to allow you to start a screen session by simply clicking on a name from your buddy list so hopefully the longer URL will be less of an issue for frequent users.
Convenience is what you should be going for. If you're able to generate a short url for convenience, the chances of someone signing up later rather than saying "Signup just to try? fuck it" are higher.
Hell, when generating the url, just make a call to the api at http://tweak.tk so that you can display the short one side-by-side with the long one. Provided your codebase is well formed, a change like that should not be astronomical.
(P.S. Tweak.tk is really awesome. At least check it out.)