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Screenhero Shares Your Screen with Others, Gives Each Person Their Own Mouse

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This service made it to the top of HN a few months ago when it was called Powwow. I've been using it since then and it's been continually improved into a very solid collab tool. Keep it up guys!

Ironically, the techcrunch article had much better info[1]. The discussion on HN from 4 weeks ago was pretty good too[2]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/11/screenhero-yc/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5202486

That is quite coincidental.

I believe irony's the right term. You'd expect techcrunch to give you the hyped-up start-up journalistic drivel, but instead you find good quality content.

Screenhero is amazing. The people behind Screenhero are amazing as well. We are using Screenhero (formerly Powwow) since it came out. Beside some issues that were resolved very fast, Screenhero is perfect. When we had a few problems with the service we wrote them an email and they responded very quickly and actually fixed the problem within a week or so. Those guys rock. Now they are planning a tour to some of their users to talk to them in person and they are planning a pro service:

http://screenhero.com/pricing.html

Screenhero boosted our productivity substantially and I will be one of the first ones to try our their pro service. If you are working in a team you should definitely look into Screenhero.

"Bummer... if this was on Lifehacker two weeks ago, Yahoo! could have avoided having to call all their troops back to the office."

Pretty sure she knows about it...

http://screenhero.com/img/email.png

She might want to get her domain spelled correctly.

http://i.minus.com/idrgWk.gif , for the easily intrigued.

P.S. The TC article (http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/11/screenhero-yc/ ) commenters compared screenhero with http://www.multimouse.com/ , https://www.yuuguu.com/s/home and others.

I just tried it with my mom. She has a Mac laptop, and lives outside US. I was using a fairly crazy setup, involving VNC on my firewall box (running pfSense), and she had to remember how to connect using Viscosity. Once connected, I would connect to her screen using VNC. When connected through VPN her own access to Internet was severely limited because of VPN routing tables. With ScreenHero she points with her mouse where she has issues, and I can use mine to show her things on the screen. And no need to VPN anymore, yay!

Fantastic tool. We've used it a bunch for remote collaboration and it really adds an element of 'togetherness' that really isn't possible with other tools.

We've been using this instead of Skype and it's definitely better. Having your own mouse is awesome.

I haven't tried this yet, so forgive this ignorant question:

I don't see the full value of just my own mouse cursor...

Wouldnt it also be great if there wasa quick-fading text box that becomes opaques when I type something, then fades back to transparent with some delay?

Is the assumption that everyonre is on a con call with the mouse?

(I am not saying I don't see the value of a mouse cursor - I am just not seeing JUST A MOUSE CURSOR as a business)

yeah, i think the assumption is that you are also on a conference call at the same time.

but i get your point, having a little quick chat thing integrated with screenhero would be good if you aren't also on a voice call.

Most of my team works remotely and we use this for pair programming all the time. It shares both the mouse and full keyboard control.

We use it in conjunction with Skype for voice.

Why is this a link to Lifehacker instead of the actual product?[0]

[0] http://screenhero.com/

Because this was already on HN.

I used to do screen sharing through iChat (Mac to Mac) but this was always a hassle when I was using multiple external monitors (the screen/text was too small and nearly unreadable if the person I was sharing with was on a laptop). There could exist some fix for this but I never found it.

Screenhero handles this much better and I can just share an application (e.g. VIM, Chrome, etc.) and the distortion is minimized. At first I didn't think the multiple mouse feature was that big of a selling point, but I've actually found it quite useful; when working on a remote team you can't physically point that the screen with your finger so the mouse does the job :)

I do this all the time with VNC on linux.

I use vncserver to setup a background vnc X session, then connect to it as many times as needed with vncviewers.

I spent 4 months working in an all pair programming-all the time dev shop and was frustrated on a daily basis not being able to start and stop pairing seamlessly. This looks absolutely killer for solving that problem. I love collaborating on code, but having to both jump on the same workstation on and off again can really be a bummer. Looking forward to trying this out with a few of my co-workers.

May I ask at what point do you say "hey everybody, this is not working". But rather spend 4 months at a task which you were frustrated daily?

Is this any improvement over Teamviewer? I'll check it out tomorrow, but we like Teamviewer's install method that is easy for clients.

I needed this so bad recently that I considered building it myself. Glad I don't have to.

This is great for pair programming, especially for lazy people like me!

Didn't microsoft have a tool out about 4 years ago where each person had their own mouse (which they shut down for no obvious reason)?

Per app sharing is great. I found myself wanting the sound coming from the app to be shared as well.

Thats actually possible right now! Well system sound is. Its disabled in the release version as its a little painful to setup but if you are interested you can email us and we can guide you through it. everyone (at) screenhero (dot) com

Pretty handy, I've always wanted remote access where two people can move the mouse separately.

We use iMessage for this. Its awesome for remote teams & makes pair programming easy.

Can you elaborate please? How can you use iMessage to share screen and interact remotely?

Shame, does not support Linux!

This is nice, way better for giving support than TeamViewer or Mikogo

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