Show HN: Frop.io – painless remote presentations

5 points by derwildemomo 9 years ago | 3 comments

Hi HN!

https://frop.io is a simple application that allows you to present content (PDF presentations, Images, Text files, YouTube videos) on a remote screen without installing any software. It's completely based on web standards (Websockets, JS) and runs in most modern browsers.

Simply start a session by calling frop.io/[yoursessionname]

I built frop.io to be able to use a RaspberryPi as a presentation endpoint but wasn't happy with the existing solutions. This is what I came up with.

The next steps are adding more supported media types and clients for FireTV and Apple TV. Mobile supported is currently very limited, but basic PDF/Image sharing is possible using iPhones and Androids.

Consider frop.io an early preview of what's to come, but I was eager to share this side project and I'm looking forward to your opinions and comments.

Thanks!

operon 9 years ago |

Amazing. Works very well on Chrome but Safari (10.0.3) can't do the transition of slides in the demo.

It would be nice to have custom URLs (like mycompany.com/presentations/presentation1) and the ability to invite, have private/secure presentations, calendar integration, automated alerts, ability to register meeting notes, pointer sharing and integrated audio conference (maybe using webrtc?).

Screen sharing is somewhat inconvenient for a remote presentation but this can be pure gold. Congrats.

derwildemomo 9 years ago | |

Hi, thanks for trying frop.io and the great feedback!

I'm a bit reluctant into integrating anything that would require WebRTC (screensharing, video, audio) since I feel there a far superior products out there (like appear.in, TeamViewer or Skype).

Regarding private/secure presentations, End-to-End Encryption is in the making and you can already use any URL you want for the session.. like frop.io/operon.

No_CQRT 9 years ago |

Really cool, tested and shared. good job