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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 tedmiston »

jsherwani wrote: post #14
tedmiston wrote: post #7

Screenhero 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.

Glad to hear it! Keep up the good work. I've been a huge fan of the Screenhero product since the first time someone showed it to me several years ago.

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

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Post by seattle_spring »

wnevets wrote: post #33
Osiris wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why has "smooth as butter" become such an overly used phrase in the tech world? Listening to the last Apple product release I must have heard the word butter a few dozen times. I don't know about anyone else but this phrase is really starting to annoy me. It's overly used, and the word "butter" in my mind is closer to "greasy", like "don't touch it with your finger because it'll get slimy and you'll have to wash your…

the top two comments use that term, odd.

Obvious shills of Big Butter.

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

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Post by tedmiston »

49531 wrote: post #35
jsherwani wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screenhero co-founder here. We're committed to making Slack Calls better, and have a number of upcoming improvements in the works.

Yea I found the window a bit harder to control as well. I'm also really bummed because I'm not sure how I am going to help my little sister learn to code now that we can't screenhero together. Not gonna make a paid slack channel just for that.

Maybe a shared online "cloud IDE" fits your use case? Something like https://glitch.com/.

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

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Post by spraak »

Osiris wrote: post #30
davideous wrote: post #19

Stand-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.

Why has "smooth as butter" become such an overly used phrase in the tech world? Listening to the last Apple product release I must have heard the word butter a few dozen times. I don't know about anyone else but this phrase is really starting to annoy me. It's overly used, and the word "butter" in my mind is closer to "greasy", like "don't touch it with your finger because it'll get slimy and you'll have to wash your…

Sorry for the downvotes, it bothers me too

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

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Post by woodrowbarlow »

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 wonder if screenhero's smoothness had anything to do with it being stuck in invite-only limbo. when you have tight control on how many people are using your app, you don't really have to solve infrastructure scaling problems yet.

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

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Post by mden »

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…

Did Screenhero not work with the slack add-on? I think I made an account without an invite recently just to check it out.

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

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Post by ballenf »

49531 wrote: post #35
jsherwani wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screenhero co-founder here. We're committed to making Slack Calls better, and have a number of upcoming improvements in the works.

Yea I found the window a bit harder to control as well. I'm also really bummed because I'm not sure how I am going to help my little sister learn to code now that we can't screenhero together. Not gonna make a paid slack channel just for that.

TeamViewer still has a free personal level account option, although its days seem numbered based on how much harder is to find on their website now.

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

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Post by exhilaration »

hbosch wrote: post #32
Osiris wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why has "smooth as butter" become such an overly used phrase in the tech world? Listening to the last Apple product release I must have heard the word butter a few dozen times. I don't know about anyone else but this phrase is really starting to annoy me. It's overly used, and the word "butter" in my mind is closer to "greasy", like "don't touch it with your finger because it'll get slimy and you'll have to wash your…

"Smooth as butter", "smoother than butter", "butter smooth", et al is a common western phrase. It's as old or older than the King James Bible itself (Psalms 55:21 if you're curious). It's a quintessential English idiom.

Thank you, that's fascinating!

Psalm 55:21 King James Version (KJV)

21. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

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