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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 nickstinemates »

samstave wrote: post #68
tarikjn wrote: post #29

I wish this was forked instead of killed. Everytime I use Screenhero, it has been butter smooth. I would be ready to pay $3/month for screenhero standalone or a pay-per-use. I'm not interested in Slack, the use cases are clearly different. I think Slack missed or rather killed an opportunity here, they could have kept Screenhero (and use it to upsell Slack) and also integrated it in Slack. Not only that but it took t…

What I really need are disposable slacks. Think of a group text with random emails and etc and it simply raises up a slack with all the parties invited and owned by the creator - then you can choose to dissolve or make perm the slack as needed...

Sounds like Google Wave

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

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Post by bgdx »

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…

I would not have noticed this opportunity because Google hangouts is just one tab/new window away.

The lesson for me here is not to care about competitors.

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

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Post by fragmede »

zpr wrote: post #114
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…

You mean you could make a YouTube clone in a weekend? It's easy to fall into this way of thinking. But hey, maybe you will build the next Screenhero, or TeamViewer. Or maybe you'll end up as one of the thousands of other versions of this nobody has ever heard of. The idea is usually not the hard part.

If you made $5 million but nobody would ever know about it, or who you are, would you make a YouTube clone?

You're right that the idea is the easy part. Still, there are a number of TeamViewer clones, ranging from terrible to pretty good. They may not have the same brand recognition but TeamViewer is quite expensive and not everyone is willing to pay top dollar.

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

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Post by fragmede »

stickfigure wrote: post #98
wpietri wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sad to say it, but it seems like email is the new fax machine. At least in terms of the younger generation's perception of it as a communications technology.

When they're old enough to work they'll be forced to interact with people who aren't their friends, and then they'll discover a new appreciation for email.

It won't go away all at once, but a scant few years after "they're" old enough to work, their friends will have been as well, and just we don't consider a company without a website to be a "real" company in this modern times, a company without a Signal/Facebook Messenger/Snapchat contact link will be seen as old and antiquated. I will mourn the loss of the federated open system we call email, and perhaps you're right - it may never go away. But the younger generation doesn't stay young forever.

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

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Post by speedplane »

kjksf wrote: post #122
tlogan wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly this is not true. There are so many excellent applications and SaaS - but they die very fast. If the company which builds an excellent solution does not get acquired they will learn the meaning of the word "hell on earth": customer acquisition baby. Customer acquisition is not easy. Of course, customer acquisition is easier if your product does not suck - but not so much.

Screenhero clearly has customers. See all the people on this thread that are sad that Screenhero is going away. You could get your first 10 customers just by contacting those people. I'm not disputing that customer acquisition is hard but that's exactly why cloning Screenhero is better than doing any random idea. Also, you would have to list a couple of those "excellent applications that die very fast" before I just…

> have never seen an excellent application that died

Really? Lots of companies with better/faster/cheaper products go under... I feel like most do. Very few products are so good that they sell themselves.

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

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Post by Mindstormy »

e40 wrote: post #79
Mindstormy wrote: post #22

I use screenhero daily for work and I am incredibly sad to see it go, even though we all knew this day was coming. It hits even harder for me since my company just moved us off of slack due to their lack of hippa compliance and cost issues, so not only is the standalone screenhero gone, I've lost the ability to use it in slack too. Does anyone have a good suggestion for an alternative?

You mean HIPAA? Assuming so, what were the issues?

Yeah typo my bad.

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

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Post by sosuke »

anfedorov wrote: post #24
s_kilk wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll second this, appear.in is great for lightweight small-group video chats.

I think this might fall under "doesn't solve the same problem at all".

You can share your screen but you cannot share control of your screen. Screenhero was the word on sharing control.

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

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Post by ajmurmann »

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…

A friend and I were fed up with the situation a while ago and started work on something that should fit your expectations. I expect it should be available very early 2018.

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

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Post by ajmurmann »

tarikjn wrote: post #29

I wish this was forked instead of killed. Everytime I use Screenhero, it has been butter smooth. I would be ready to pay $3/month for screenhero standalone or a pay-per-use. I'm not interested in Slack, the use cases are clearly different. I think Slack missed or rather killed an opportunity here, they could have kept Screenhero (and use it to upsell Slack) and also integrated it in Slack. Not only that but it took t…

I absolutely feel your pain. So a friend and I started work on something that should please you. I expect it should be available soon.

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

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Post by samstave »

nickstinemates wrote: post #141
samstave wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I really need are disposable slacks. Think of a group text with random emails and etc and it simply raises up a slack with all the parties invited and owned by the creator - then you can choose to dissolve or make perm the slack as needed...

Sounds like Google Wave

Was google wave the same as "wave" which then became "microsoft wave" which was the team/cvs/workflow product from ~2006 or so?
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