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by jsherwani 7y ago
Sorry about that! Looks like a bug in our Linux multi-monitor code. I'm going to look into this right now! It’s been a while since we touched that code, and it’s likely that bugs may have crept in since then. Also, corp level user mana
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Good catch! Hopefully our product is better than my math :D
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Looks great! :D
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by jsherwani 7y ago
FWIW, I believe life’s too short to be doing the same thing over again. I’m building Screen because I want to see where we can take it independently, as I think we had some great ideas that weren’t able to see the light of day. Screen is al
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Happy to hear that! :D
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by jsherwani 7y ago
As long as you can make a network connection between the two hosts (either directly or mediated via a server in the middle), you should be fine. We haven’t tested specifically between China and the US, though.
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by jsherwani 7y ago
You may be able to install and run Screen on Windows, although to be 100% honest, we haven’t spent a lot of time outside the assumption that the user has the access they need. If you can drop us an email at team@screen.so, one of us will ma
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Short answer: we have no intention of ever getting acquired. We are 100% bootstrapped, and we plan to become and stay sustainable, so we can be in it for the long haul. Also, regarding acquisitions, I’ve been there, done that, and I wouldn’
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Longer story here: https://screen.so/about Summary: we were sustainable ($1MM ARR), but chose to join Slack since we felt we could get to our goal (have everyone use our product) faster. We didn’t foresee our product gettin
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Zing! I see what you did there :D
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by jsherwani 7y ago
We’ve heard this feature request a few times, so it’ll likely make its way into the product soon.
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by jsherwani 7y ago
I can’t speak to other products and their performance, but we’ve worked hard on performance and wide platform support (Mac, Windows, Linux apps to host screen shares, and web support for joining meetings). Do try Screen and let us know what
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by jsherwani 7y ago
There are no plans to open source our product, sorry!
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by jsherwani 7y ago
I’ve posted a top level comment addressing this issue since it’s probably best to have the discussion in one place. But yes, we didn’t hear from anyone in our private beta that there was any confusion regarding our name, and we ourselves co
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Notion was what inspired me to get our domain!
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by jsherwani 7y ago
No need to sell kidneys... :) Could you post this as a feature request on https://support.screen.so , along with some context to your use? That way we can follow up with more questions, others can vote for it, and we can update y
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Could you elaborate on why you think this is a worse reincarnation of Screenhero? Are there specific features we’re missing? Also, there is no way to make a web app that does what Screen does. If there were, we’d have built a purely web-bas
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by jsherwani 7y ago
We’d ideally like to create one or two distributions that are most widely useful, instead of having to support every single option out there — we picked Snap for this reason. Slack also supports Snap + Debian as their only two options, from
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by jsherwani 7y ago
I just posted a top-level comment to address the naming issue, which a number of people have now brought up. Sorry for the confusion!
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Yeah, I can totally see how in some circles, "screen" is synonymous with GNU Screen, and that our choice of name would be confusing. Sorry about that! I’ve posted a top-level comment about the naming issue, in case more context is
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by jsherwani 7y ago
I can see how that would be confusing. Sorry about that! I just posted a top-level comment on the naming issue, where we were coming from, and that I’m open to changing the name.
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Just to address the naming issue — we (myself and the other engineer, that comprise the entire Screen team) honestly have not used GNU Screen for more than 5 years, and didn’t even remember it existed until today’s post. I’m sorry for the o
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by jsherwani 7y ago
Sure! It’s built on a private fork of Electron, but the UI is all web-based. Electron handles most of our native needs, and where it doesn’t, we have a node module to connect into the OS. A lot of our secret sauce is on the native side, but
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by jsherwani 7y ago
We’ll look into this! Please post a bug report on https://support.screen.so so we can follow up with you with questions and update you on our progress to fix it.
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by jsherwani 7y ago
I only decided to re-enter this space after Slack announced it was sunsetting interactive screen sharing. It ended up being too expensive a feature for Slack to support for a niche audience. I can’t speak for the company, but I imagine they
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by jsherwani 7y ago
This is a really good question, and the simple answer is that Slack uses an unmodified version of Electron, and it’s not a good idea to make custom modifications to that project for such a small, niche feature. The cost/benefit just do
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by jsherwani 7y ago
The main market analysis was asking users what their pain points were and solving them. Screenhero didn’t have robust drawing, for instance. Admittedly, we only had a handful of Linux users in our private beta, but still, none of them menti
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by jsherwani 7y ago
To be honest, I’ve never considered trademarking the name. We just want to build a product that works and is loved by its users. It’s really quite simple! :)
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by jsherwani 7y ago
We’re a 2 person team, and neither of us uses Screen (the last time I used it was more than 5 years ago, and until HN’s response, had completely forgotten about it). Also, nobody in our private beta mentioned GNU Screen. A public beta helps
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by jsherwani 7y ago
I hope we exceed your expectations!

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