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Show HN: Surfly - surf the web together (HTML5 based, no plugins, just works)

12 points by nichol4s 13y ago

nichol4s 13y ago
So we've just launched our new service which is the simplest way to share a browser session with others. It does not require any extra software or plugins nor do you need to write a single line of code. Just open surfly.com enter an address and share the link.
- ChristianBundy 13y ago
  I just tried opening google.com and it continues to redirect to redirect me to google.de (German). Is there a way to disable this functionality?
  - nichol4s 13y ago
    No, unfortunately there isn't.
romeo88 13y ago
Registration via Mail? And the mail takes way too long ... what year do you live in? 1990?
- nichol4s 13y ago
  Sorry about that, will look into it.
- evan_ 13y ago
  Email came instantly for me.
mgkimsal 13y ago
holy cow this is cool... seriously impressive stuff, I have to say. do you have a list of supported browsers, and/or fallback gracefully if someone attempts to join with an unsupported browser?
- nichol4s 13y ago
  Great, thanks you like it! We currently support all recent browsers with websocket support.
jmacd 13y ago
It seems like only the person who starts the session can do most things? (like form filling, moving Google maps, etc). Is it a leader/follower model?
- nichol4s 13y ago
  Yup that is correct, we'll add some instructions so this becomes clear.
nichol4s 13y ago
Btw, anyone knows why this submission dropped from the front page? Was something wrong with it? Or is is just my view that is missing it?
AH4oFVbPT4f8 13y ago
Wow, we do a lot of web demos and have to setup gotomeeting which seems like overkill for just sharing our browser, I'm very interested in this project! Feedback: surfly didn't like it when I tried to share a session to surfly.com.
hardikj 13y ago
Cool Stuff
tmikaeld 13y ago
Isn't this the exact same as: https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs With the difference that you charge for it? You have all right though, since it's MPL licensed - but i can't find that license anywhere....
- nichol4s 13y ago
  TogetherJS focusses on collaboration we focus on making it very easy to share your web session. Some differences: - with togetherjs you need to modify your site to enable it, we allow you to use it on any website - togetherjs is a library we are a free online service - with Surfly you can also log into a website without sharing your credentials

12 points by nichol4s 13y ago

So we've just launched our new service which is the simplest way to share a browser session with others. It does not require any extra software or plugins nor do you need to write a single line of code. Just open surfly.com enter an address and share the link.

ChristianBundy 13y ago
I just tried opening google.com and it continues to redirect to redirect me to google.de (German). Is there a way to disable this functionality?
- nichol4s 13y ago
  No, unfortunately there isn't.

romeo88 13y ago

Registration via Mail? And the mail takes way too long ... what year do you live in? 1990?

nichol4s 13y ago
Sorry about that, will look into it.
evan_ 13y ago
Email came instantly for me.

mgkimsal 13y ago

holy cow this is cool... seriously impressive stuff, I have to say. do you have a list of supported browsers, and/or fallback gracefully if someone attempts to join with an unsupported browser?

nichol4s 13y ago
Great, thanks you like it! We currently support all recent browsers with websocket support.

jmacd 13y ago

It seems like only the person who starts the session can do most things? (like form filling, moving Google maps, etc). Is it a leader/follower model?

nichol4s 13y ago
Yup that is correct, we'll add some instructions so this becomes clear.

nichol4s 13y ago

Btw, anyone knows why this submission dropped from the front page? Was something wrong with it? Or is is just my view that is missing it?

AH4oFVbPT4f8 13y ago

Wow, we do a lot of web demos and have to setup gotomeeting which seems like overkill for just sharing our browser, I'm very interested in this project! Feedback: surfly didn't like it when I tried to share a session to surfly.com.

hardikj 13y ago

Cool Stuff

tmikaeld 13y ago

Isn't this the exact same as: https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs With the difference that you charge for it? You have all right though, since it's MPL licensed - but i can't find that license anywhere....

nichol4s 13y ago
TogetherJS focusses on collaboration we focus on making it very easy to share your web session. Some differences: - with togetherjs you need to modify your site to enable it, we allow you to use it on any website - togetherjs is a library we are a free online service - with Surfly you can also log into a website without sharing your credentials