I hate to say it but this sounds fairly close-minded.
Does this need to be a new product? Yes.
There are no great collaboration tools for developers I've ever seen like this. I'm immediately willing to pay whatever it costs to get this for my team. No more awkward calls trying to communicate complex concepts that don't often have terminology unless you make it up. Quickly highlight and explain a conflict without back and forth or frustration about how and where it fails over 5 minutes, just kindly ask if they wouldn't mind and start editing in the use-case or failure-case to explain the concept instantly.
Have you ever had to grab someone's mouse and keyboard awkwardly to get to the point of a conversation or feature? You never have the need to do that again.
Ever had the displeasure of trying to explain something that couldn't be explained by text / call in person over their shoulder ending up back-seat driving? Never again.
I mean, you can say it it's okay! I can't encapsulate my ENTIRE way of thinking into every comment I make, which has the unfortunate side effect of sometimes coming across as "close-minded".
For the record, as you can see from my reply to a sibling comment from the CTO, I am legitimately interested in CoScreen and products like it.
So why did I ask what I did? I know the CoScreen people are watching, so I took advantage and asked for some reasoning about why "this time, it's different." And I got a good answer, too!
Does your product support iPad with drawing? Because difficulty of explaining is often relieved with visuals, as opposed to merely gesturing at something with the mouse. It’s something that’s keeping me on Zoom vs the competition.
The way we're doing this is that we use Miro (https://miro.com) on an iPad, open the same file on the desktop and share that window using CoScreen.
That way you can draw on the iPad, share the content via CoScreen with your peers and they can even draw at the same time - all while sharing & interacting with other windows in parallel. Does that address your needs?
I couldn’t have said it better myself @bmcahren! Perfectly summarizes the pain points we’ve experienced that led us to build this. (CPO of CoScreen here)
Does this need to be a new product? Yes.
There are no great collaboration tools for developers I've ever seen like this. I'm immediately willing to pay whatever it costs to get this for my team. No more awkward calls trying to communicate complex concepts that don't often have terminology unless you make it up. Quickly highlight and explain a conflict without back and forth or frustration about how and where it fails over 5 minutes, just kindly ask if they wouldn't mind and start editing in the use-case or failure-case to explain the concept instantly.
Have you ever had to grab someone's mouse and keyboard awkwardly to get to the point of a conversation or feature? You never have the need to do that again.
Ever had the displeasure of trying to explain something that couldn't be explained by text / call in person over their shoulder ending up back-seat driving? Never again.