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Screen Sharing in Slack — A simple way to share your ideas and your screen
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@rrhoover We’ve invested a lot into the Slack platform and our partners in the space. Everybody should have access to the tools, apps, and workflows they need to get work done, and we think it’s a much better experience if it’s streamlined in one interface!
This is a great time to remind teams that they can switch to other calling apps in Slack and we’re working on integrating them even better. We’re not looking to “eat” other business tools, but bring them into the fold in a way that makes life easier for people.
I don't know if that's entirely true. Lots of orgs already use Google Apps (G-Suite or whatever they're calling it now). The instant Google releases Hangouts Chat broadly, I can see a lot of orgs having a really, really hard time justifying Slack's additional cost when they can just use Hangouts.
@rrhoover Plus as 3rd parties add integrations, slack can probably track usage and use that as evidence for new feature sets they build out themselves. Amazon did that with plenty of their vendors, tracking sales and figuring out what product lines to get into themselves.
Being a 3rd party supplier on someone else's platform is always a risk.
What is the future of Screenhero? I love how Screen Hero allows for dual mouse control which is perfect for 1 on 1 training. Thank you.
I spend a ridiculous amount of time on Slack calls now daily and this was the missing feature - thanks for shipping it!
Hey @andygcook ! I am a Product Manager on the Platform team here at Slack - I would absolutely love to know more about what other types of apps you are looking for that would make your working life more pleasant and productive!
@salmansq Hey Salman - happy to chat with you. Fair warning, I'm building an app on Slack called Tettra that lets you find and share evergreen knowledge with your team, so probably not your typical user. Shoot me an email if you want to schedule a call - andy@tettra.co
Love to see this, but also feels weird to see no Linux support. Especially when, according to StackOverflow polls, Desktop Linux and Mac users have about the same usage among devs.
@tsnieman we just launched video calls and screen sharing on Linux today! https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/stat...
Great job! 👏🏻L.O.V.E. SLACK! ❤️ This is building upon the Screenhero acquisition or something parallel? Either way great stuff.
@bentossell We're so happy to launch this. Let us know what you think!
Awesome! Screen sharing was holding me back from using Slack for meetings. Just got our paid team account. Looking forward to using Slack Video Calls!
@kunalslab would you like to give a try to www.collabe.io
We are still in beta but we are about offer same features without any charge.
@evivekpal you know it's not very nice to go to someone's launch and promoting your own product (multiple times)
Hello Product Hunt! I’m Chris, a product manager at Slack. We’re very excited to add Screen Sharing to Calls in Slack so that you can share your screen with your teammates to collaborate and get work done.
Screen sharing (like voice and video calls before it) is based largely on WebRTC, along with a few modifications we’ve made to make your experience better. You should experience smooth, high quality, high frame rate screen shares. As always, we paid attention to the experience and aim to offer a simple and beautiful UI.
Screen sharing is available to all paid teams and will be rolling out slowly over the next few days.
We’ll be around answering any questions you may have. Let us know what you think! Any and all feedback is deeply appreciated. You can also learn more on our blog: https://slackhq.com/screen-shari...
@one16th Been waiting for this from a long time. This feature is greatly appreciated.
@one16th This is awsome. Have been waiting for this feature. I have been using Screenleap till date. Thanks for this feature .
@one16th This is awesome! 🙌 Love the video call feature and now screen sharing? sign me up!
@dubstrike We're actively investigating this, but wanted to get screen sharing out first. If your team is on a paid plan you can use Screenhero by going to: https://my.slack.com/screenhero.
@dubstrike @one16th
That's one of the important features which will make communication more intact. Although just to let you, we www.collabe.io are about to offer same features to all the users free of cost. We believe, customer don't need to pay till the time it's freely available in the market.
@one16th @dubstrike Screenhero was free to use - you're putting it's features behind a paywall?
@jyonah Screenhero has been available to paid teams since joining Slack, go to https://my.slack.com/screenhero to set it up.
We do pair programming and daily calls with slack in our software project.
Pros:+ works flawlessly
+ great sound and audio quality
+ you can scribble on the screen or remote control another computer
Cons:- reactions could be more prominent for group calls
- when joining a slack call there should be an option to auto mute
Finally! I have been having to hop onto a different app to do a screen share while on a call. I foresee more and more that people are getting tired with a Frankestien approach to their workflow and things that incorporate it all into one system will become more popular.
@one16th highly anticipated feature. Will app developer be able to programmatically trigger screen sharing? E.g. a button that would launch a screencast to a channel from an app. This would terrific for our Slack app Paste http://paste.fiftythree.com which teams use today to quickly gather, organize, and review their work. A quick way to do team presentations.
It's a good feature, but slack requires you to be on a paid plan to be able to do this. If you want to screen share in slack for free you can try Dead Simple Screen Sharing Slack app through which you can screen share and conduct audio conferencing for free right from slack Here a link: https://www.deadsimplescreenshar...
Slack should probably iron out the performance issues with their existing VOIP and video solution before rolling out screen sharing. I haven't found either to be particularly stable when compared to Hangouts or Skype.
Is there a way to share just a window, instead of the full-screen? Or is it on the roadmap?
Don't want everyone to see my messy desktop :)
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