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Would really love to see a comparison between this, Pop, Drovio, Tuple, and similar.

I've been using Drovio (formerly UseTogether) for a few years, mostly on inertia, as they were the "best" I found when looking originally. It suits my needs, but feels a little kludgy at times.

One of the killer features, imo, is that Drovio can be run from the browser, at least for the clients. This lets you get a teammate pairing with you super fast, without having to make them download/install something.

As far as I can tell, so far, Multi doesn't have that ability

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Hey cofounder here, just confirming that we do _not_ support running from the browser. That's a pretty great feature.

Another tool that supports streaming to a browser is [Coduo](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coduo-pair-coding-for-xcode/id...)... although I just noticed the single 1-star review :/

Multi is typically used for long-term teammates. That's when, the extra features we get from being native, as well as the command palette to reach someone, are more useful.

From the little I tested it out, you guys have an excellent ux, certainly something I'll be keeping an eye on

Thanks for the kind words!

How frequently do you use it? Once a week?

Often daily. I've been full remote since before COVID, and it's been amazingly useful

I used (and loved) screenhero back in the day too

That’s really interesting to hear. I did a bunch of interviews with devs around real time multiplayer collab since I wanted some improvements there to things like screenheroand was surprised at how infrequently they actually did it. We focused on async sharing instead because of that. Would love to share what we have to get your thoughts, you sound like someone who might like what we’re doing too for sharing your knowledge and expertise to others in your dev team, if you were up for a quick chat, lmk or email me diamond@augmend.com.

Sure, I'll kick an email your way

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