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Show HN: iOS SDK to live-stream app to any web browser (built at PennApps s2014)

9 points by thecalvinchan 13y ago

coob 13y ago
Looks cool. Fills a different need to app.io. However, not sure I'd want to ask a client to go to 'fuckitstreamit.com'.
- thecalvinchan 13y ago
  hey coob, 'iostream.io' also leads to the same site. We registered this second domain for this exact reason.
  - draugadrotten 13y ago
    >>not sure I'd want to ask a client to go to 'fuckitstreamit.com'. >We registered this second domain for this exact reason. Why would you register a second domain to make people hesitant about showing your product to a client?
    - thecalvinchan 13y ago
      We initially registered 'fuckitstreamit.com' as a joke parody of the phrase 'fuck it ship it'. During demos at PennApps, the Venmo judges suggested we replace the domain with something more appropriate, so we registered 'iostream.io'
  - coob 13y ago
    Ah sorry, missed that completely! Looking forward to using it.
gailees 13y ago
Funny that it's a site for mobile streaming but the site isn't very responsive.
zomgbbq 13y ago
For live demos, I use Airplay to mirror the display to an AppleTV. For online demos, I use an app like AirServer or Reflector that make my laptop an Airplay-receiver and then share my desktop/screen over G+ hangout. I highly recommend adding the "Fingertips" Cocoapod to your project and it will highlight finger presses and taps when it detects you are using an external display. You just need to replace your UIWindow with MBFingerTipWindow.
- thecalvinchan 13y ago
  We created this to cover situations where the presenter doesn't have AppleTV. And using AirServer or Reflector in addition to G+ seems to add unnecessary middleware to a process that should be streamlined and easy. iOStream takes about 60 seconds to add to any existing iOS project and it makes your application accessible through any web browser, without having to install additional desktop software. And yup, we do highlight finger presses and taps as well!
jbzd 13y ago
I have a very similar hook in our apps for both sales demos as well as customer support. It's so much easier for our support people to help our customers (SaaS app dealing with lots of data, lots of views, etc) if they can see what they are looking at.
- thecalvinchan 13y ago
  Very cool. We definitely wanted to create a useful platform for developers and clients to interact with each other. A cool feature we added was the ability for users to screenshot the stream and annotate it with drawings or text. The user could then save the screenshot or email it.

9 points by thecalvinchan 13y ago

coob 13y ago

Looks cool. Fills a different need to app.io. However, not sure I'd want to ask a client to go to 'fuckitstreamit.com'.

thecalvinchan 13y ago
hey coob, 'iostream.io' also leads to the same site. We registered this second domain for this exact reason.
- draugadrotten 13y ago
  >>not sure I'd want to ask a client to go to 'fuckitstreamit.com'. >We registered this second domain for this exact reason. Why would you register a second domain to make people hesitant about showing your product to a client?
  - thecalvinchan 13y ago
    We initially registered 'fuckitstreamit.com' as a joke parody of the phrase 'fuck it ship it'. During demos at PennApps, the Venmo judges suggested we replace the domain with something more appropriate, so we registered 'iostream.io'
- coob 13y ago
  Ah sorry, missed that completely! Looking forward to using it.

gailees 13y ago

Funny that it's a site for mobile streaming but the site isn't very responsive.

zomgbbq 13y ago

For live demos, I use Airplay to mirror the display to an AppleTV. For online demos, I use an app like AirServer or Reflector that make my laptop an Airplay-receiver and then share my desktop/screen over G+ hangout. I highly recommend adding the "Fingertips" Cocoapod to your project and it will highlight finger presses and taps when it detects you are using an external display. You just need to replace your UIWindow with MBFingerTipWindow.

thecalvinchan 13y ago
We created this to cover situations where the presenter doesn't have AppleTV. And using AirServer or Reflector in addition to G+ seems to add unnecessary middleware to a process that should be streamlined and easy. iOStream takes about 60 seconds to add to any existing iOS project and it makes your application accessible through any web browser, without having to install additional desktop software. And yup, we do highlight finger presses and taps as well!

jbzd 13y ago

I have a very similar hook in our apps for both sales demos as well as customer support. It's so much easier for our support people to help our customers (SaaS app dealing with lots of data, lots of views, etc) if they can see what they are looking at.

thecalvinchan 13y ago
Very cool. We definitely wanted to create a useful platform for developers and clients to interact with each other. A cool feature we added was the ability for users to screenshot the stream and annotate it with drawings or text. The user could then save the screenshot or email it.