Petal
An open-source multi-user collaborative screen sharing tool positioned as a free alternative to CoScreen and ScreenHero. It allows multiple participants to each have an independent mouse pointer for collaborating, annotating and debugging on the same screen, with an emphasis on self-hosting and data sovereignty.
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Petal is an open-source project positioned as an open-source alternative to CoScreen/ScreenHero, completely free, aimed at multi-person real-time collaborative screen sharing.
Petal is currently at an early stage, and its cross-platform support, latency performance and security model remain to be verified.
Petal was posted in the Show HN section of Hacker News and sparked discussion.
For early-stage open-source projects like Petal, whether the security model has undergone third-party auditing and whether the architecture is clearly disclosed are key thresholds for judging whether it can enter enterprise environments.
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Petal is an open-source project positioned as an open-source alternative to CoScreen/ScreenHero, completely free, aimed at multi-person real-time collaborative screen sharing.
50%UnverifiedPetal is currently at an early stage, and its cross-platform support, latency performance and security model remain to be verified.
50%UnverifiedFor early-stage open-source projects like Petal, whether the security model has undergone third-party auditing and whether the architecture is clearly disclosed are key thresholds for judging whether it can enter enterprise environments.
50%UnverifiedPetal was posted in the Show HN section of Hacker News and sparked discussion.
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