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

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Post by faitswulff »

kodablah wrote: post #40

For anyone wanting to roll this themselves, it's actually quite easy with Chrome media capture these days. Just make a Chrome extension with desktopCapture permissions, follow the example codes to do things like chooseDesktopMedia and webkitGetUserMedia and let them choose the desktop (or tab). You can do what you want w/ the media stream after that (like capture to blobs which you can send around, or send over WebRT…

Does this cover letting your screenshare partner take control of your computer?

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

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Post by kodablah »

faitswulff wrote: post #51
kodablah wrote: post #40

For anyone wanting to roll this themselves, it's actually quite easy with Chrome media capture these days. Just make a Chrome extension with desktopCapture permissions, follow the example codes to do things like chooseDesktopMedia and webkitGetUserMedia and let them choose the desktop (or tab). You can do what you want w/ the media stream after that (like capture to blobs which you can send around, or send over WebRT…

Does this cover letting your screenshare partner take control of your computer?

Got my edit in just as you typed this, heh, no it doesn't. But I doubt capturing keyboard and mouse and sending it would be that difficult. Granted at that point I would opt for an OS native approach.

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

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Post by tootie »

exhilaration wrote: post #25
sosuke wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can't take control of your screen but I like https://appear.in/

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.

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

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Post by ballenf »

austenallred wrote: post #27

Can someone tell me how screenhero performs in a call of 50+ people? We teach classes, and Slack is our home base, so Screenhero would be great, but I’m not sure of how it scales.

As of 12 months ago, I inevitably had problems with more than 3-4 people in a session. But that was mainly when we'd try to rotate presenters. Got used to restarting the call in order to pass the baton. Even without rotating however, there would often be connectivity issues where someone had to drop off and reconnect. That slowed us down with small groups, so if you had to pause anytime one of 50 people had connectivity issues I'd guess it would be unusable unless they fix the connectivity issues.

Have you tried youtube for live streaming? Never tried a private stream, but they certainly know how to scale video.

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

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Post by ballenf »

vladgur wrote: post #18

Does 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

I have the same question. Using it a lot, there were little quirks that made it feel like it had very low level access to my Mac. Sometimes it would move the mouse on my screen outside the SH window, but synced up with the other person's mouse (on their 2nd monitor not shared). Especially noticeable with dual screens or when moving the SH window. Kind of hard to explain in words.

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

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Post by corywatilo »

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…

+1

Screenhero was the best way for me to remotely support my parents computers. I know there are a thousand tools out there for this, but Screenhero was so incredibly simple that it beat out everything else.

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

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Post by skrowl »

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…

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...

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

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Post by ballenf »

corywatilo wrote: post #57
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…

+1 Screenhero was the best way for me to remotely support my parents computers. I know there are a thousand tools out there for this, but Screenhero was so incredibly simple that it beat out everything else.

I've used it for this, but much prefer setting up TeamViewer on their computers with my account so that I can hop on their computers anytime to check on updates, virus scan, etc. without them even needing to be present.

I still need their help with they accidentally disconnect from the internet. I would like to have a conversation with the companies who put an unlabeled physical (or key combo) wifi power switches on laptops intended for home use. It's my first troubleshooting step now when family members on laptops have connection issues.

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

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Post by jlehuraux »

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…

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
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