We’ll wrap up our first launch week with a look behind the scenes. After we joined Datadog in 2022, we went back to the drawing board to make the things you liked about CoScreen even better and to fix the things many of you did not like.
CoScreen was always meant to be different — Enabling everyone to share, and control what is being shared, at the same time. We see collaboration as a natural extension of you and your team, closely coupled with your OS — instant, fast, seamless, democratic. A truly different way to pair program, debug, teach each other, or jam on great ideas. All that made a lot of sense conceptually when CoScreen went to the front page of Hacker News in 2019 but it was hard to get it right.
With the all-new CoScreen V5, we feel we’re closer than ever. We rebuilt huge parts of our app from scratch to make it more resilient and efficient by relying heavily on Rust. We architected our screen sharing engine and revamped the user interface to make it more intuitive so that is never in your way.
What you liked about CoScreen, so we made it even better ⏫
Here’s a quick demo of the all-new CoScreen V5:
- Instant screen sharing — everywhere: Share your windows with just one click on the tab above each of your windows. You never have to search for the right window anymore or be anxious to share the wrong one.
With V5, tabs don’t get lost anymore and windows are sharable from any display. - Multi-directional collaboration: You can share, while Alice shares, while Bob shares. Everyone sees everyone’s windows and never misses any context.
With V5, the new remote tabs give you even more fine-granular control. - Instant remote control: Type, click, and draw on any shared window as if it was your own.
With V5, remote mouse pointers are now moving as smoothly as if they were connected to your computer. - High-def code: We transmit windows streams with their native resolution whenever possible so you can read each other’s code without getting dizzy even if you’re on a 4k display.
With V5, they won’t become obfuscated anymore even if the sharing user moves another window o
