95: What Really Happened to Screenhero - a podcast by Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer

While Derrick is away, Ben welcomes Don Goodman-Wilson, who was the first hire at Screenhero in 2013.
Don shares his version of Screenhero’s incredible journey, its migration to Slack, and Tuple coming to the rescue. Better late than never!Today’s Topics Include:
Work Ethic/Culture: Doctorate in philosophy requires logic and dedicationEngineering Challenges: Learning low-level C/C++ code in Screenhero product
Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac: Harmonizing code basesWeb Application Programming: User interface (UI), reliability, latency, quality, and billing
Product/Market Fit: Quick growth, adoption, and implementation of ScreenheroPair Programming: Personal and professional sharing and collaboration
Second Day at First Expo: Atlassian’s interest, followed by Slack’s acquisitionPlatform of Choice: Who’s the best partner to work with to achieve Screenhero’s goals?
In and Out of the Sandbox: Screenhero’s prone to crashing and uses private APIsSlack destroyed Screenhero: Expectations and compromises created culture clashHeartbreaking, Rational Reality: Removal of remote screen control in Slack calls
Maintainerati’s Mission: Understand challenges and offer solutions for maintaining open source softwareLinks and resources:
Don Goodman-Wilson (https://don.goodman-wilson.com/) Don Goodman-Wilson on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/degoodmanwilson)
Maintainerati (https://maintainerati.org)Screenhero (https://screenhero.com/)
Y Combinator (https://www.ycombinator.com/)Slack (https://slack.com)
The Screenhero Story - The Screenhero Blog (https://blog.screenhero.com/post/109339022326/the-screenhero-story)Removal of remote screen control in Slack calls (https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/360022908874-Removal-of-remote-screen-control-in-Slack-calls)
Atlassian (https://www.atlassian.com/)HipChat (https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack)
WebRTC (https://webrtc.org/)Redis (https://redis.io/)
Python (https://www.python.org/)Stripe (https://stripe.com/)
Ractive.js (https://ractive.js.org/)Ruby-Grape Rack (https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape)
Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org/)Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/)
Google Hangouts (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin)Art of Product on Twitter (https://twitter.com/artofproductpod)
Derrick Reimer (http://www.derrickreimer.com) WebsiteDerrick Reimer on Twitter (https://twitter.com/derrickreimer)
Ben Orenstein (http://www.benorenstein.com/) WebsiteBen Orenstein on Twitter (https://twitter.com/r00k?lang=en)
Maintainerati on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Maintainerati)Tuple (https://tuple.app/)
Tuple’s Pair Programming Guide (https://tuple.app/pair-programming-guide)StaticKit (https://www.statickit.com/)
Level (https://level.app/)Level Retrospective (https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-away-from-the-product-i-spent-a-year-building.html)
Level Manifesto (https://level.app/manifesto)

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