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Show HN: My weekend project (split screen surfing)
I wanted to surf the 'net with my girlfriend, so I built this.
- yariang 15y agoDo you really want to provide yet another way to "goof around in class?" :)
- steve-howard 15y agoCan there ever be enough ways? Then again, when I goof around in class it's because I'm zoning out the textbook regurgitation in favor of whatever idea strikes me. 90% of the time it's HN or reddit anyway, but every now and again I try to build something.
- diN0bot 15y agois there an app like this that is more general split screen share? or split terminal share? i don't like how screen shares (skype, webex) are one-way, and require passing a baton back and forth. when you sit next to someone, you can each look on each others' screens seemlessly.
- foob 15y agoGNU screen supports this functionality and it is very useful. A google for '"gnu screen" "multiuser on"' should turn up a number of tutorials that explain in detail how to use it. To also split the terminal into multiple screens you should search for '"gnu screen" "split screen"'.
- pyrhho 15y agoor tmux, which is does the same thing as screen.
- hasenj 15y agoWhat happens when person A is logged in to say, gmail? What does B see? A's gmail or B's gmail?
- rchiba 15y agoCurrently, the extension will show B's gmail to person B, and A's email to person A. All that's being transferred is URL and position data.
- AndrewWorsnop 15y agoyeah doesn't seem to work for me. Keeps "Waiting for connection"...
- rchiba 15y agoMy server has had issues using websockets to connect to clients with high latency, so if you're faraway from where I'm hosting it (Northern California), it may not connect. Also, I haven't done load testing, so this may be a cause as well.
- angryasian 15y agowhen the permissions say "Your data on all websites" and its connecting to your server, what exactly do you see ? Cause I know with this permission it allows for example to see a banking site if we were on it.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoDoesn't work well at all in Europe... Keeps saying "Waiting for connection". Was trying it with my gf, and she was connected to someone random...
- AndrewWorsnop 15y agoOk, I'm in Australia, so that would make sense :P
- pkamb 15y agoYou should add a 'random' option.
- yariang 15y agoBrowsing roulette -- I like it. Startup idea? (Actually, jokes aside, a randomized split screen browsing service where you have some background on who you browse with sounds kind of interesting. It would be like a two-way human stumble upon)
- ahmetalpbalkan 15y agoDo they match users with passwords? Because someone can see your browsing while you're waiting for your friend and your password is a simple one.
- ClintonWu 15y agoCould be another nice user testing tool
- tg3 15y agodoesn't work for me. When I start a session it keeps saying waiting for connection, when someone tries to join it doesn't respond at all (no new window or anything).
- naner 15y agoEver wanted to surf the Internet, but with someone else in split screen? No, actually, not with someone else. With myself. I recently began the process to hack on Chrome to add proper split screen support (I don't believe it can be done well with an extension), but the development process was so involved and the codebase was so much more massive than I'm used to dealing with that I decided to put this off until I have much more free time...
- Omni5cience 15y agoWhat's the backend look like?