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points by hypfer 23 hours ago | 0 comments
I know Show HN rules want you to be extra nice to people, but this is indistinguishable in execution from a honeypot, so anyone uploading their company slides to some random service like this one will likely be fired on the spot for gross negligence.

I see your idea and I suppose there is value in it, but the problem of screen sharing is basically fictional compared to the real problem of someone just uploading company data (+ metadata!) to a random service some random person came up with.

Screen sharing only shares pixels and does so through parties that the economy considers trustworthy enough.

This is not going to work as the SaaS you seem to envision it to be. It might work for a self-hosted internal service thing or a group of friends though.

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Thinking about this, I suspect that at least one naive bored corporate guy browsing HN will have tried this out with a random pptx they had lying around on their work computer. The data is now.. somewhere.

So this could be an actual honeypot.

[–] denismenace 23 hours ago
The point about privacy has been made before and I see the value in it. But, users regularly share documents with third parties. In addition this was expected to be used primarily by non-business users (such as students) and in the future enhance privacy if people see value in it.

It doesn't work as a self-hosted service, because you need to be able to quickly share a link with other participants.

It's not a honeypot.

[–] kinduff 13 hours ago
> It doesn't work as a self-hosted service

Sorry but it doesn't work with your current architecture, but it is in fact possible to have the same functionality even within a network/VPN/Tailnet, or with your own domain, like all self-hosted apps do.