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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

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 them over 2 years to make this integration and in the meantime Screenhero remained invite-only.

woodrowbarlow 9y ago
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.
- tjoff 9y ago
  It wasn't P2P? Yikes...
  - elsif1 9y ago
    It was p2p, except for group shares and/or restrictive firewalls
mden 9y ago
Did Screenhero not work with the slack add-on? I think I made an account without an invite recently just to check it out.
corywatilo 9y ago
+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.
- ballenf 9y ago
  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.
  - jenscow 9y ago
    Some laptops have a BIOS setting for what that switch toggles.
- justbaker 9y ago
  +1 That's a great use case ^
skrowl 9y ago
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/115000982752-Screen-sharing-Video-Calls https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500098275...
- sudoscript 9y ago
  I think they don't let other people take over your screen the way ScreenHero does though?
- e40 9y ago
  I have to +1 this. I use it to communicate with my son, who resisted my efforts to get him to reply to my emails (since youngsters hate email, apparently) or join a family slack.
  - wpietri 9y ago
    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.
    - stickfigure 9y ago
      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.
      - fragmede 9y ago
        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.
jlehuraux 9y ago
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 http://www.use-together.com
- hsod 9y ago
  Note that this user appears to work for the company which makes this product
  - dragon_king 9y ago
    He does say "we" in his last sentence.
- wlesieutre 9y ago
  I'd hate to jump on board a replacement only to have MS buy it for a crappy Skype integration. I see it's a free beta now, any word on the monetization plan?
  - jlehuraux 9y ago
    Not yet, USE Together will stay free during the beta, while we are scaling it. Unlike Slack, it doesn't require the users accessing your screen to have any account on our servers.
samstave 9y ago
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...
- nickstinemates 9y ago
  Sounds like Google Wave
  - samstave 9y ago
    Was google wave the same as "wave" which then became "microsoft wave" which was the team/cvs/workflow product from ~2006 or so?
conradev 9y ago
Yeah, I agree. Screenhero is fantastic. I wish there was something that good that is OSS.
lstyls 9y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity!
ajmurmann 9y ago
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.

woodrowbarlow 9y ago

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.

tjoff 9y ago
It wasn't P2P? Yikes...
- elsif1 9y ago
  It was p2p, except for group shares and/or restrictive firewalls

mden 9y ago

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

corywatilo 9y ago

+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.

ballenf 9y ago
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.
- jenscow 9y ago
  Some laptops have a BIOS setting for what that switch toggles.
justbaker 9y ago
+1 That's a great use case ^

skrowl 9y ago

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/115000982752-Screen-sharing-Video-Calls https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500098275...

sudoscript 9y ago
I think they don't let other people take over your screen the way ScreenHero does though?
e40 9y ago
I have to +1 this. I use it to communicate with my son, who resisted my efforts to get him to reply to my emails (since youngsters hate email, apparently) or join a family slack.
- wpietri 9y ago
  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.
  - stickfigure 9y ago
    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.
    - fragmede 9y ago
      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.

jlehuraux 9y ago

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 http://www.use-together.com

hsod 9y ago
Note that this user appears to work for the company which makes this product
- dragon_king 9y ago
  He does say "we" in his last sentence.
wlesieutre 9y ago
I'd hate to jump on board a replacement only to have MS buy it for a crappy Skype integration. I see it's a free beta now, any word on the monetization plan?
- jlehuraux 9y ago
  Not yet, USE Together will stay free during the beta, while we are scaling it. Unlike Slack, it doesn't require the users accessing your screen to have any account on our servers.

samstave 9y ago

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...

nickstinemates 9y ago
Sounds like Google Wave
- samstave 9y ago
  Was google wave the same as "wave" which then became "microsoft wave" which was the team/cvs/workflow product from ~2006 or so?

conradev 9y ago

Yeah, I agree. Screenhero is fantastic. I wish there was something that good that is OSS.

lstyls 9y ago

Sounds like a business opportunity!

ajmurmann 9y ago

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.