As someone who sometime struggles with doubt after a large decision, I found this really moving. Thanks for sharing!
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Totally agree with the issue you've laid out. We don't want this to become a pure popularity contest.
When we choose the winners, we'll consider vote totals but also several other signals.
We've had a couple painful SSO integrations (when they were home-grown, as you correctly point out), but we've pretty much got the rough edges sanded down now. I don't think we've had a tough one in a while.
It helped to publish some short docs on it: https://tuple.app/sso_setup
Also, the shameless self-promoter in me is required to let you know that we're hiring a Lead Web Developer: https://tuple.app/jobs/web-developer.
If our stance on the topic of SSO/security vs. profit appeals to you, please consider checking us out!
Happy to answer any questions (and receive any criticism!).
Tuple is a native macOS/Linux application for doing low-latency remote pair programming. We were discussed recently here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29641907
We are a bootstrapped, profitable, distributed team of nine very friendly humans.
We're looking for a strong C++ dev with experience creating great Linux apps to lead development of our new client (currently in alpha – launching publicly soon).
Full job description here: https://tuple.app/jobs/senior-linux-app-developer.
If you think you might be a fit, we'd love to hear from you :)
Sorry, didn't mean to imply you were :)
> I think the problem is closing the window shuts down the screen link but not the whole pairing session, but people don't realise they need to separately end the call.
Ah hah! This is totally it. Closing the screen share does not end the call (intentionally). I can decide I don't want to see your screen any more, but still want to talk to you. Definitely a debatable design decision, though. It actually used to work the other way.
I'm pretty sure this isn't true, but if you can reproduce it, please do let me know and we'll fix asap! ben@tuple.app.
If, however, you only see that problem when Tuple is running or call is active, let me know and we'll look into it.
Improving webcams (a lot), URL-based rooms, and never having a call interrupted by a required update are all on my list for next year.