Great product.. This disrupts all of the clunky screen sharing products I have used in my tech life. Dare I be bold and state this may be the Dropbox of screen sharing.
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.
#72It requires Java. Enough said.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#73Any chance at offering this through SSL in the future? Or does the transmission already go through SSL?
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#74Beautiful 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 includ…
Please let your marketing folks know that there is a silent (ok, not this time) constituency of people like me who cringe at the term "webinar". Some of us even filter such terms from appearing in our inboxes.
Please call it what it is: a seminar. When people share their slides online they don't call it a "websentation" because it would be so goofy as to be insulting. Why should a seminar be any different?
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#75Ah, the joy of product marketing. The VIEWING is from any device, but SHARING is not. Ability to view on iPad in the browser is a step up from join.me, but it appears to be the only major difference. Am I missing something? I am a long time LogMeIn user, so I am probably right smack in the middle of your target audience.
We eventually want to support sharing from any device but it won't be as painless as viewing from any device.
Being able to view from the iPad or smartphone without any install is the major difference right now between Screenleap and join.me. For future direction, since the viewer is HTML/JavaScript-based, we think there may be opportunities for deeper integration with other products to make it even easier to get a screen sharing session started. We also think that it may be easier for us to provide a branded and more customized screen sharing experience.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#76Any chance at offering this through SSL in the future? Or does the transmission already go through SSL?
Yes, we plan to support SSL in a future release.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#77Wow, 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...
That is definitely a route we want to consider. If you know someone in the space, we would love an introduction.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 b…
If you are going to use an URL shortening service, please go with one that is universally recognised by most tech people, such as bit.ly. I've never heard of tweak.tk and I've never seen it come across my Twitter feed.
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#79Doesnt seem to work on my Lion with the latest Java installed
Re: Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
#80Its like the Stripe for screensharing , I love it.
As for monetization, I think a good strategy might be something like the first 3 are free, and then you pay $5 for 30 screenshares afterwards. Atleast for me, I'd be willing to pay that and it seems like a straightforward/fair way to price it.
Good luck!