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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)

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Post by kjksf »

gcheong wrote: post #127
kjksf wrote: post #112

People are so desperate to find viable business ideas. We discuss to death MVPs, fake landing pages, articles describing how to find and validate ideas and find first customers. Yet, no one notices when business opportunity stares them in the face. Go and duplicate screenhero. It's not that hard (Screenhero was written by 4 devs and 1 designer). They did YC in winter 2013 and got acquired by Slack in Jan 20015, so it…

Yet Screenhero had been at it for 4 years at least, presumably had ongoing guidance from and access to the great business minds at YC and yet in the end decided that the best value they could get for their product was as a feature of Slack.

I don't see an issue here.

They made a useful app and probably would have at least a multi-million dollar business, eventually.

As it happens, that was worth much more to Slack so they probably got a good immediate payday and stock in very promising company.

For 2 years of work, I would say that's a great success.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by kjksf »

sogen wrote: post #130
kjksf wrote: post #112

People are so desperate to find viable business ideas. We discuss to death MVPs, fake landing pages, articles describing how to find and validate ideas and find first customers. Yet, no one notices when business opportunity stares them in the face. Go and duplicate screenhero. It's not that hard (Screenhero was written by 4 devs and 1 designer). They did YC in winter 2013 and got acquired by Slack in Jan 20015, so it…

Previous discussion, with at least 20 alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620626

As far as I know there is no Screenhero alternative.

Most of the apps listed are for video conferencing and "simple screen sharing".

That's not what Screenhero does.

Screenhero is for collaborating with other people on arbitrary applications.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by AtlasLion »

teeberg wrote: post #4

So I suppose that means Screenhero won't be available outside of Slack anymore? I always found it useful as a stand-alone app when you wanted to let somebody control your screen that is not on Slack. Anyone have good alternatives for that?

I use splashtop to remotely access my computers and provide support to my parents. I haven't found anything that competes when it comes to speed. I even use it to remotely work on Photoshop.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by jlehuraux »

wlesieutre wrote: post #126
jlehuraux wrote: post #60

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Have you tried USE Together? Collaborative screen sharing with multiple mouse cursors and simple web browser access. Currently in free beta, we are working hard on Mac support, coming really soon :) http://www.use-together.com

I'd hate to jump on board a replacement only to have MS buy it for a crappy Skype integration. I see it's a free beta now, any word on the monetization plan?

Not yet, USE Together will stay free during the beta, while we are scaling it. Unlike Slack, it doesn't require the users accessing your screen to have any account on our servers.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by allyant »

tootie wrote: post #53
exhilaration wrote: post #25

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We use appear.in through our paid Slack accounts. I don't know how our admins set is up but we just type /appear in any channel/chat and immediately get a link.

It's a plugin. But it's also trivial to get a URL from the site and paste it in.

In the Slack admin panel you can change the default call provider from slack to others, one of those is appear.in. Doing this will cause the “call” button in the slack app to auto generate a unique link for appear.in and add it to the chat. Works well if your company won’t scrape together for paid version of slack (such as mine).

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by wink »

eltoozero wrote: post #102
skrowl wrote: post #58

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Have you tried Discord? It's geared towards gamers but it's got most of the features we needed from Slack. More info: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500098275...

Due to shenanigans toward Jason Scott[0], and the whole "Hype Squad" thing I have zero interest in supporting Discord. [0]: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/903663357210841088?lang=en

I fail to see the "offense". Maybe the tone in that email is aggravating to you as it seems to be for him, but... I can only shrug and wonder. I'd say it's not a bit worse than half of the promotional emails from services I (or my company) pay for in a week...

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by wink »

lwhsiao wrote: post #124
jsherwani wrote: post #15

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Linux already has video calls and screen sharing! Just no shared control / drawing.

That shared control and having both mouse pointers visible was really the key value of Screenhero for me. I would love to see something that does this on Linux.

Just tried it, I could see a Mac user's screen without problems (and draw on it, but not click)

I could also screenshare which "kind of" worked, but it was a bit wonky with virtual desktops in xmonad (graphics glitches, but workable)

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