Show HN: Cobrowsing – Interactive Screen Sharing

Hi folks! We are building GitDuck (YC S20) to help software teams talk and collaborate. When we think about the how teams interact (and when we look at how we work as a team), it is normal that many of our interactions consists of showing something and talking about it. We could be sharing the code, a drawing and a lot of times we are sharing a website.

Traditional screen sharing was one way of doing this. Sharing 60 frames of your screen per second and allowing your team to see it. The screen resolution was a problem, because if we had a bad connection, the image quality could reduce.

Another problem was the lack of interactivity and that was too annoying to ignore. Come one, it's 2021 and why were we still doing screen sharing the same way we did in the mid-2000s?

People need to narrate what their team should see ...

"Can you click on that button?"

"What button?"

"Wait, scroll back a little bit"

These tiny frictions build up and the flow of information slow. Screen sharing without interaction is like talking on a walkie-talkie instead of having a real-time conversation.

We want to be able to share any website and allow people to view and control it as if they had opened that website themselves. People can scroll, click on things, see everyone's cursors and even type. It is an interactive screen sharing experience.

What do you think? It would be great to hear your thoughts on this topic!

Love it. Reminds me of using Figma over calls and having the cursor feature show specifically what I'm pointing at!

This is awesome, especially for non-coding use cases like working on docs together, feature specs, etc!

This is really cool, I also think your Google Docs VS Code integration is really strong

really impressive !

this unlocks a whole new level of colab, like literally any website is now multiplayer