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Nice.

Did you start with an app and then build out this platform or are you going the other way around? It seems like it would be a great idea to introduce this as a "WOW" app first then sell the SDK.

I'm assuming that your product is a communications API that allows an app on a device to talk to a sister app on another, registered, device only? So the video call transfer example works only so long as you have the same app (which uses your API) on the Mac and the phone and you have paired the two previously?

I'd love to have this for the conference room at work. We have a big 4K TV on the wall (we have them coming out of our ears since video is what we do), but we hardly use it for anything except to show video samples for bug discussions using a little wireless HDMI box. It would be great to be able to just pull up a terminal window on my phone and send it to the wall display for code reviews and such.

+1 for conference rooms. Need more demos of what else can be done with this! Signed up for now to get more updates.

Yes, we will be releasing our product (packaged in the platform) and then allow developers to add their apps to the platform too. We are even thinking of open sourcing our app to make it easier for developers.

Wow app is always a tricky proposition.

How is this different from Chromecast?

Does nothing like this already exist?

I think the closest thing right now is Chromecast. But I think they are focussed on screen sharing to your TV, while we want to connect all your devices.

How do I get your platform on my TV?

We will support Smart TVs at the start, so you can download it from the app store.

any plans on bringing this to android?

Our current plan is to have Android during launch.

What about Blackberry?

f* blackberry.

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