Frop.io
Productivity
remote presentations
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple concept that works in the browser without installs
From 3 comments
I love this concept, and it's great to see the current support for dragging and dropping images and PDFs. I was checking out the functionality and tried dropping a couple…
CDillinger on HNLooks cool. Would be nice to be able to drag a pptx or google slides link which would unpack the images or slides automatically. Then you could use arrow keys to easily advance…
moondev on HNThis is great. Does it do any screensharing?
nojvek on HN
Multi-page PDF support is useful
From 1 comment
Great work! Supporting multi-page PDF is a good feature there.
david90 on HN
Objections
Word, Excel and text files hang the host screen with no error message
From 1 comment
I love this concept, and it's great to see the current support for dragging and dropping images and PDFs. I was checking out the functionality and tried dropping a couple…
CDillinger on HN
Only one viewer per presentation
From 1 comment
Does this only allow for one viewer per presentation? I can imagine a lot of use-case scenarios with multiple viewers enabled, if at all possible? Nice work though, I can see…
detritus on HN
Requests
Support for multiple viewers
From 2 comments
Does this only allow for one viewer per presentation? I can imagine a lot of use-case scenarios with multiple viewers enabled, if at all possible? Nice work though, I can see…
detritus on HNAt the moment it's one viewer per presentation, though that limit is quite arbitrary and could be changed in the future. I thought or considered this to be a nice-to-have but not…
derwildemomo on HN
Support for PPTX and Google Slides
From 2 comments
Looks cool. Would be nice to be able to drag a pptx or google slides link which would unpack the images or slides automatically. Then you could use arrow keys to easily advance…
moondev on HNHa, I'd actually love that. Google Slides should be in the realm of possible things, PPTX could get more complicated. What I suggest you try is to upload a PDF. I've built a…
derwildemomo on HN
Gradient colour mode and screen awake option
From 1 comment
Excellent.I was working on a similar personal project. I had these functionalities in mind: - Gradient / Color full screen mode - Keep remote screen awake - Screenshot preview of…
kpsychwave on HN
Questions
Does it support screen sharing?
From 1 comment
This is great. Does it do any screensharing?
nojvek on HN
How are session name collisions handled?
From 1 comment
I tried it and it looks good to me, my only concern was how will be the session name collision is handled?
avi02 on HN
Alternatives named
appear.in and Skype for screen sharing
From 1 comment
Not really, I think there are better and more mature tools for doing that (like appear.in or Skype) out there. frop.io is quite special in that it does not do screensharing at…
derwildemomo on HN
Chromecast
From 1 comment
Excellent.I was working on a similar personal project. I had these functionalities in mind: - Gradient / Color full screen mode - Keep remote screen awake - Screenshot preview of…
kpsychwave on HN