"...lets two people meet online to share their computer screens." !!!
I don't think Mr. Desai was able to see your desktop, right? So, you are not "sharing" it with him really. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. Also, how well does it work if one of the participants is behind a VPN or not using a dedicated IP?
Definitely a useful application but as you've said there already are scores of applications out in the market including the more advanced dimdim and sharemypc, xvnc etc., that lets the host/participants do a lot more. Question would be how sustainable is their business in the long term?
People would definitely use these as long as they are kept free but once they require the users to pay, I'd think most of the users would simply migrate (in droves) to another open source/free application. I think this is a challenge for most of the companies today.
Matt Marshall
· 3 years ago
That's right. To share with him, I'd give him my access code, and hit the host tab, so it is one at a time.
I agree, it will be a challenge to make this a stand alone business.
Joe Wein
· 3 years ago
STARTUPS.IN/India asked: "Also, how well does it work if one of the participants is behind a VPN or not using a dedicated IP?"
That is the major differences to many of the other products you mention as potential competitors - CrossLoop takes care of this transparently. This program is safe to use with anyone you know who owns a computer with some type of broadband connection (DSL, cable, T1), regardless of their technical knowledge.
The vast majority of our customers are behind routers that dynamically translate their local IP address to a global address, which in many cases changes from session to session. It's not a problem for the user, who doesn't need to know or understand any of that as we take care of it.
Download and click, that's all there is to it. You're welcome to try it out for yourself!
Right now customers from India are our seventh largest group of customers by country (and climbing).
Startups.in/India
· 3 years ago
Thanks for responding, Joe. I'll definitely test it out but I noticed it interesting that you mentioned only about users with broadband. Does it mean there is a noticeable performance hit if the users are on dial-up connections which is not uncommon in India? Again, most of the broadband users in India do not have a public IP address and from what you are saying crossloop handles this (and also connections behind firewalls and on VPNs) transparently and very well. That is good to know.
BTW, I understand it is currently not cross-platform compatible(Windows, Unix, Mac etc). I hope it's in the works along with multi user collab feature.
My closing question :) - Why isn't there a hosted version? Why force the users to download ?
Jason Schramm
· 3 years ago
The second link to Crossloop actually goes to Crosslink.net, so you may want to fix that.
Jack Chawla
· 3 years ago
Looks like their is no business model here. As soon as you start charging, you are competiing with MeetMeNow from WebEx, GoToMeeting, PCNow from WebEx, LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, etc.
Is the company planning to make money via advertisments?
Stii
· 3 years ago
Crossloop is brilliant! Its by far the easiest to use and the uses are priceless! I love it guys. You are doing a GREAT job!
Yvonne
· 2 years ago
First of all. I tried it on severall PCs. It worked only on 25% even when they were in the same network. It didn't work under Windows Vista at all.
Then I don't get the business model - as Jack wrote: It's two years to late - there are severall companies doing the same. Also a VNC based tool has to respect the GPL.
To say some good things: The user interface is very simple - but at the moment there are no features at all...
Don't think this is the next YouTube ;-)
Ramkumar
· 2 years ago
Cross Loop is really an Interesting Appliction for the one of the important reason.
1. Easy to Download. 2. Simple to Install 3. Interesting to Understand.
All Comments
I don't think Mr. Desai was able to see your desktop, right? So, you are not "sharing" it with him really. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. Also, how well does it work if one of the participants is behind a VPN or not using a dedicated IP?
Definitely a useful application but as you've said there already are scores of applications out in the market including the more advanced dimdim and sharemypc, xvnc etc., that lets the host/participants do a lot more. Question would be how sustainable is their business in the long term?
People would definitely use these as long as they are kept free but once they require the users to pay, I'd think most of the users would simply migrate (in droves) to another open source/free application. I think this is a challenge for most of the companies today.
I agree, it will be a challenge to make this a stand alone business.
"Also, how well does it work if one of the participants is behind a VPN or not using a dedicated IP?"
That is the major differences to many of the other products you mention as potential competitors - CrossLoop takes care of this transparently. This program is safe to use with anyone you know who owns a computer with some type of broadband connection (DSL, cable, T1), regardless of their technical knowledge.
The vast majority of our customers are behind routers that dynamically translate their local IP address to a global address, which in many cases changes from session to session. It's not a problem for the user, who doesn't need to know or understand any of that as we take care of it.
Download and click, that's all there is to it. You're welcome to try it out for yourself!
Right now customers from India are our seventh largest group of customers by country (and climbing).
BTW, I understand it is currently not cross-platform compatible(Windows, Unix, Mac etc). I hope it's in the works along with multi user collab feature.
My closing question :) - Why isn't there a hosted version? Why force the users to download ?
Is the company planning to make money via advertisments?
Then I don't get the business model - as Jack wrote: It's two years to late - there are severall companies doing the same. Also a VNC based tool has to respect the GPL.
To say some good things: The user interface is very simple - but at the moment there are no features at all...
Don't think this is the next YouTube ;-)
1. Easy to Download.
2. Simple to Install
3. Interesting to Understand.