July 11, 2019

95: What Really Happened to Screenhero

43 minutes

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 dedication

Engineering Challenges: Learning low-level C/C++ code in Screenhero product

Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac: Harmonizing code bases

Web Application Programming: User interface (UI), reliability, latency, quality, and billing

Product/Market Fit: Quick growth, adoption, and implementation of Screenhero

Pair Programming: Personal and professional sharing and collaboration

Second Day at First Expo: Atlassian’s interest, followed by Slack’s acquisition

Platform 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 APIs

Slack destroyed Screenhero: Expectations and compromises created culture clash

Heartbreaking, Rational Reality: Removal of remote screen control in Slack calls

Maintainerati’s Mission: Understand challenges and offer solutions for maintaining open source software

Links and resources:

Don Goodman-Wilson

Don Goodman-Wilson on LinkedIn

Maintainerati

Screenhero

Y Combinator

Slack

The Screenhero Story - The Screenhero Blog

Removal of remote screen control in Slack calls

Atlassian

HipChat

WebRTC

Redis

Python

Stripe

Ractive.js

Ruby-Grape Rack

Ruby on Rails

Dropbox

Google Hangouts

Art of Product on Twitter

Derrick Reimer Website

Derrick Reimer on Twitter

Ben Orenstein Website

Ben Orenstein on Twitter

Maintainerati on Twitter

Tuple

Tuple’s Pair Programming Guide

StaticKit

Level

Level Retrospective

Level Manifesto

...more

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By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer

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