Most unfortunate. I don't recall any other collaboration tool which has been so dramatically better than the alternatives for such a long time.
Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
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Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#12Really disappointing news, rolling Screenhero into Slack doesn't solve the same problem at all. I work for myself and have a large contact list of people who don't know each other who I often pair with or screenshare with. With Slack, there's really no way for me to create the same setup. I'd need to create a new team called "Adam's Screenhero Contacts", invite all of my contacts (who don't know each other) to be par…
If Slack brings calling to shared channels, will that fit the bill?
Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#13Really disappointing news, rolling Screenhero into Slack doesn't solve the same problem at all. I work for myself and have a large contact list of people who don't know each other who I often pair with or screenshare with. With Slack, there's really no way for me to create the same setup. I'd need to create a new team called "Adam's Screenhero Contacts", invite all of my contacts (who don't know each other) to be par…
There is a way for each individual to pay for their Slack account: Shared Channels! https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-ca...
Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#14Screenhero is hands down the best (smoothest) screen sharing app I've ever used. It's bittersweet to see them acquired by Slack as a paid only feature, but I'm happy for the team and it seems like a very ideal kind of acquisition where they solve a problem Slack has and wasn't solving well, and then Slack can scale the Screenhero userbase overnight. Edit: I just tried this feature in Slack with /call then enabling ot…
Screenhero co-founder here. We're committed to making Slack Calls better, and have a number of upcoming improvements in the works.
Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#15When is videocalling and screensharing coming to Linux?
Linux already has video calls and screen sharing! Just no shared control / drawing.
Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#16Really disappointing news, rolling Screenhero into Slack doesn't solve the same problem at all. I work for myself and have a large contact list of people who don't know each other who I often pair with or screenshare with. With Slack, there's really no way for me to create the same setup. I'd need to create a new team called "Adam's Screenhero Contacts", invite all of my contacts (who don't know each other) to be par…
If Slack brings calling to shared channels, will that fit the bill?
Slack shared channels already has calls (including screen sharing / shared control).
Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#17When is videocalling and screensharing coming to Linux?
Slack's beta Linux client already supports video calling and screen sharing.
Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#18Does anyone know of the “secret” sauce that made screenhero so much better than the alternative.
When I used it years ago, it was super smooth and felt more like the real screen rather than the remote screenshare
Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#19Stand-alone ScreenHero sharing is smooth as butter -- truly amazing. Controlling a remote computer feels local.
Right now I'm using the slack-integrated "ScreenHero", and it's really laggy. This is super disappointing, and painful to use. It's actually making the mouse pointer of the person sharing lag for them.
Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance.
Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
#20The audio quality of ScreenHero has always been so great. What codec are you using? I think I remember you saying you switched the video codec to H.264. How did you make the audio side work so well?