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Re:CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers by rjhacks on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:47PM (#26584551)
For the CoScreen team, I'm curious how the existing competition (https://tuple.app/, https://screen.so/) factors in to your decision to build/position this - do you believe you have a different vision than they do? Features they can't match? A better team that will out-execute? Out-market?

Startup founders are often told not to launch a product that has direct competitors already, so I'm curious to hear your take!

Re:CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers by DEGoodmanWilson on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:57PM (#26584664)
Screenhero engineer here, and currently working with CoScreen. TBH, Tuple adn Screen both seek to re-create Screenhero (and do an amazing job of that!) CoScreen, while using similar technology, has completely rethought the UI from the ground up, and is a huge step forward that the others are going to have a hard time catching up with. Instead of one person sharing their screen, with CoScreen, each participant can share individual windows into a shared environment that feels as natural as native windows. It's a fundamentally different vision for how to do remote collaboration.
Re:CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers by hypermachine on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:06PM (#26585386)
Tech question: do you plug in to the native compositing UI system or do you have your own cross-platform UI compositing code?
Re:CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers by thedracle on Thursday March 25, 2021 @10:01PM (#26588051)
We use a custom native compositor on both of the current supported operating systems.
Re:CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers by hypermachine on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:29PM (#26588481)
What's your stack? Mostly C++?
Re:CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers by cphajduk on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:53PM (#26584618)
I've heard the opposite advice.

Don't worry about competitors, worry about making your product the best it can possibly be (which if successful would be better than competitors).