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Really disappointing news, rolling Screenhero into Slack doesn't solve the same problem at all. I work for myself and have a large contact list of people who d
by adamwathan 9y ago
Really disappointing news, rolling Screenhero into Slack doesn't solve the same problem at all.
I work for myself and have a large contact list of people who don't know each other who I often pair with or screenshare with. With Slack, there's really no way for me to create the same setup.
I'd need to create a new team called "Adam's Screenhero Contacts", invite all of my contacts (who don't know each other) to be part of this "team" together, and I'd have to foot the bill for the whole team since there's no way for each individual to pay for their own Slack account.
Is there a viable Screenhero alternative out there yet?
- sosuke 9y agoThey can't take control of your screen but I like https://appear.in/ https://appear.in/
- s_kilk 9y agoI’ll second this, appear.in is great for lightweight small-group video chats.
- exhilaration 9y agoWe 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.
- tootie 9y agoIt's a plugin. But it's also trivial to get a URL from the site and paste it in.
- allyant 9y agoIn 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).
- robbiemitchell 9y agoIf Slack brings calling to shared channels, will that fit the bill?
- jsherwani 9y agoSlack shared channels already has calls (including screen sharing / shared control).
- jsherwani 9y agoThere is a way for each individual to pay for their Slack account: Shared Channels! https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-can-work-with-anyone-in-slack-8c5d2a943f57 https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-ca...
- JadoJodo 9y agoThis doesn't solve it either, however. As an example, if I'm friends with 5 people who each have this setup, I'll have to pay to belong to each of their 5 separate shared Slack channels. And they would need to do the same for each of THEIR friends.
- elsif1 9y agoI think single channel guests would work?
- aaronbrager 9y agoYeah it would be a little obnoxious but I think it would work
- cheez 9y agoI use zoom.us
- lobster_johnson 9y agoGoToMeeting is rock solid if you only need to broadcast a single screen at a time. (Only one "one-to-many" screen; no collaboration, no multiple cursors.) It's low-bandwidth, supports dial-in and recording, and has a native app.