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Comment by Zarel | Hacker News Reader

They're definitely planning to build a social product:

https://assets-global.website-files.com/60352b1db5736ada4741...

If this was a better, generic, screen sharing solution, it might be awesome. But forcing people to use a specific terminal to work with others feels like it'll be a non-starter for most people. Not least given how rarely I've ever had a need to show anyone my terminal (despite having had solutions for it for literally decades via e.g. sharing screen or screen sharing all the way back to VNC and similar).

Our strategy here is to share sessions to the web, so collaborators don't need to download the app. It's fascinating how far utilities like screen will get you in functionality, but I agree it's really hard to get people on there.

My point in mentioning screen was rather that despite having had solutions that work for decades, that everyone I collaborate with knows how to use, I can literally count the number of times I've felt a need to share just a terminal window with someone, rather than e.g. a full screen, on two hands over the course of 25 years.

It's rare enough for me to have a need for sharing a screen, but sharing a single type of window would cover just a tiny proportion of those rare cases.

My tech stack is atypical enough in many respects that maybe others will find it more useful, but to me this seems like a couple of useful but easily copied features (the auto-complete), and some stuff I'd never use.

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