Show HN: TeamTail.dev – Securely stream any command-line program to the web

Show HN: TeamTail.dev – Securely stream any command-line program to the web(teamtail.dev)

2 points by huan23 5 years ago | 6 comments

huan23 5 years ago |

Hey everyone, creator of TeamTail here!

TeamTail is a nights-and-weekends project that I've been working on for the past couple of weeks. It's not 100% production ready yet, but wanted to share 1) in case it is useful to any of you creators, and 2) to get some early stage feedback.

TeamTail is a tool that lets you pipe any command-line output (e.g. cat file | teamtail, tail -F file | teamtail, or even ./run-program | teamtail) and it'll create a secret link for you to share https://teamtail.dev/p/{...}.

This project was inspired by a few other tools that I've seen out there, namely https://seashells.io/ and https://streamhut.io/, with the two "killer" features of TeamTail being

1) End-to-end AES-256 encryption + SSL/TLS communication throughout

2) Inline commenting (think github style commenting) for easy, real-time collaboration.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

verdverm 5 years ago | |

Why is this better than a simple screen share when needed?

I'm not seeing the utility here.

huan23 5 years ago | | |

Good question. I believe there are a couple of benefits over a simple screen share that makes it worth while:

While it can function as a realtime stream, it also allows for asynchronous collaboration. For example: you can `cat` a log/config/source/etc file to TeamTail and share the link to get feedback / help. Inline comments combined with Google/Facebook/GitHub auth allows for low-friction collaboration.

And the fact that the conversations live in a document of sorts means that you can refer back to it in the future, or you can share it with people who weren't there during the screenshare "meeting".