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Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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spockz wrote: post #83
coscreen wrote: post #19

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Thanks! It's currently free but we're planning to charge for larger teams and enterprise features further down the road. Our current plan: https://coscreen.co/pricing (feedback welcome!)

We are a pretty large org and especially for major incident resolution I see coscreen work. However, in order for it to be used during majors the software should be readily available for the engineers. On the other side I can also imagine being challenged why we would need to pay seats for all our users. Will there be an option for something like floating licenses or being billed after the fact?

Point taken, we're thinking about focusing on active users but open to feedback as we outline the model. Feel free to reach out

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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chadlavi wrote: post #90

Seems neat but this website is really terrible at explaining what the product is or why I'd want to use it. The homepage looks like a spammy blog landing page? give me a big hero image (ideally an autoplay no-audio video acting like a gif) and like, 10 words and some links to more details. Also no info on pricing?

We linked went indeed to our blog, here's the main page [a]. Let us know if you're still missing any information.

[a] https://coscreen.co/

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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tedyoung wrote: post #81
coscreen wrote: post #19

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Thanks! It's currently free but we're planning to charge for larger teams and enterprise features further down the road. Our current plan: https://coscreen.co/pricing (feedback welcome!)

I'd love to replace Zoom, but as a trainer/coach, I use it only on a weekly basis with multiple people, I guess you'd call them "strangers" (though they might be "regulars"). I'm unclear about how the pricing works in this situation, i.e., what does CoScreen consider a "user"?

We're planning to charge for active users in larger teams and to have a gracious tier for casual users like in your case. We do have many teams that use it for trainings and even interviews and we'd be interested if it works for you too.

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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philsnow wrote: post #77
coscreen wrote: post #29

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Thanks for the feedback. We have a few Zoom-converts and here's what they've told us they like about CoScreen: 1. Every user has their own mouse pointer instead of sharing the same. 2. You can share bi-directionally, so not just one at a time. 3. More importantly, if I share two or three windows with you, they appear as three separate native windows for you and you can resize and position them as you like without int…

> and you can resize and position them as you like without interfering with me Does this resize the window only locally, like scaling a video? If somebody shared a browser window with me demonstrating a responsive web site, could I drag the bottom right corner of the window around to see how the site reflows?

Yes, you're pretty much scaling the video while retaining its aspect ratio. We're doing that so users can't interfere with each other's setup (it was different early on and annoying).

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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kxrm wrote: post #87
coscreen wrote: post #36

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Good question - If you share your window or display on CoScreen, you can decide if you also want to share remote control or not. It’s a global toggle for all the windows you share. Also, only users who have the invite to your CoScreen (and therefore have a secure token to get into it) and are with you in it at that moment, would be able to type into your window if you allowed that.

It would be nice to set control settings from the host on a per window basis.

Point taken, it's on our roadmap...

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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DANmode wrote: post #45
davbryn wrote: post #31

How are account permissions handled on the host machines that are relinquishing control to outside users? I mean, what prevents a Malicious user pasting in a devastating command into your terminal if they are running under your privileges? Or a mistaken user copy and pasting a bad command?

What's preventing the coworker helping you over your shoulder from entering a malicious command? Some human issues can't be solved with technology.

True - if you share your window or display on CoScreen, you can decide if you also want to share remote control or not. It’s a global toggle for all the windows you share. Also, only users who have the invite to your CoScreen (and therefore have a secure token to get into it) and are with you in it at that moment, would be able to type into your window if you allowed that.

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by chadlavi »

coscreen wrote: post #92
chadlavi wrote: post #90

Seems neat but this website is really terrible at explaining what the product is or why I'd want to use it. The homepage looks like a spammy blog landing page? give me a big hero image (ideally an autoplay no-audio video acting like a gif) and like, 10 words and some links to more details. Also no info on pricing?

We linked went indeed to our blog, here's the main page [a]. Let us know if you're still missing any information. [a] https://coscreen.co/

oh dang, ok... the "Home" link on your blog should really go to that page instead. I clicked home assuming it would take me to the landing page, then didn't even check the url (which was https://www.coscreen.co/blog/tag/deep-collaboration/ for some reason? why is that Home?)

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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Post by bentcorner »

vxNsr wrote: post #86
bentcorner wrote: post #66

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I do this using OBS + a dummy plug on my GPU (I run Windows). 1. My dummy plug "monitor" is to the top right of my main ultra-wide - I do this so it's impossible to get "real" windows into it. 2. I have a scene in OBS that has the display capture of my main desktop as a source, and top/left align it with the window. 3. I set my output to 1920x1080 (1366x768 works too but it's a little too small). 4. I set the resolut…

Yea this is kinda nutty as a solution. How often does it break?

Actually works great (as far as I know, haha, I can't see what I'm sharing). Getting it just right was sort of fiddly, and starting up OBS before meetings is a bit of a hassle but it only takes a few seconds.

I'm probably not explaining the entire thing too well but honestly I find it to be an ideal solution to sharing a region of my desktop.

Re: Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

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chadlavi wrote: post #98
coscreen wrote: post #92

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We linked went indeed to our blog, here's the main page [a]. Let us know if you're still missing any information. [a] https://coscreen.co/

oh dang, ok... the "Home" link on your blog should really go to that page instead. I clicked home assuming it would take me to the landing page, then didn't even check the url (which was https://www.coscreen.co/blog/tag/deep-collaboration/ for some reason? why is that Home?)

That's the main tag for our blog posts and the 'Home' link comes from our Ghost template but I get your confusion
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