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

#81
Please ditch the generic stock photo of a lady on a broken laptop on the beach. It makes your site look like a cheap travel agency.

Go for a home computer setting or even an office setting.

Like one of these or something.

http://us.fotolia.com/id/28015494

http://us.fotolia.com/id/35919645

http://us.fotolia.com/id/27612067

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

#82

That is such a great app! I love how simple it is to share the link and there's no need to download anything. Are there any plans to share the screen of an android phone? I think that would be pretty fun.

Thanks! We eventually want to add support for sharing from iOS and Android devices, especially tablets.

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

#84
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The cool thing about tweak.tk is that it's operated by the .tk-registry and you're getting a free generated .tk domain instead of just a page on the domain of the shortening service. Jdyk56.tk instead of bitly.com/jdyk56

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

#85

Please ditch the generic stock photo of a lady on a broken laptop on the beach. It makes your site look like a cheap travel agency. Go for a home computer setting or even an office setting. Like one of these or something. http://us.fotolia.com/id/28015494 http://us.fotolia.com/id/35919645 http://us.fotolia.com/id/27612067

We would love to get in touch with any great designers out there that can help us with this.

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

#86
post #50

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 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?

I hate 'webinar' as well, but it is highly descriptive. A seminar could be a meeting in a different room in a different city; it's more ambiguous.

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

#87
I wouldn't use this over join.me because of the compression artifacts. I use join.me to lead webinars and a professional appearance is critical.

However, I am glad to see another competitor in the space. The killer feature, IMHO, would be adding a VoIP / Telephone bridge so people could get audio either way. Webex and Gotomeeting do this, but they are clunky in other areas.

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

#88
post #50

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 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?

Shouldn't it be in your "list of uncategorized email messages" rather than in your "inbox"? :)

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

#89
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The cool thing about tweak.tk is that it's operated by the .tk-registry and you're getting a free generated .tk domain instead of just a page on the domain of the shortening service. Jdyk56.tk instead of bitly.com/jdyk56

Wow, that's simultaneously cool and means I'm not going to use it. http://ddpor.tk looks too much like a link to a scam site.
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