Unicorns

Live stream your iPhone screen

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Live stream your iPhone screen

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The Design of Influence: How to Craft Products that Move People

This could well be a game-changer for mobile usability testing. Are we finally going to be rid of laptop hugging??

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11yr ago

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Maker

@alirtariq lol love these photos!

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11yr ago

@alirtariq Before laptop hugging, back in the days of Jamdat mobile, they used an expensive camera/projector device called an "Elmo" projector. These things ran $1200 - -$2000 apiece. Thankfully, technology caught up to the need!

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11yr ago

The Design of Influence: How to Craft Products that Move People

@geoffabrown @alirtariq just Google Image'd Elmo projectors and I had a nasty rush of memories of my accounting classes. Shudder.

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11yr ago

So slick and so useful. Amazing. Would love to more about it technically, will there be a blog post?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@ahussein potentially yes, we'll post updates on Twitter @unicornsio

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11yr ago

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Maker

@ahussein That's a great idea! I'm the developer for the nitty-gritties in this app, and until we've written an article, feel free to ask me anything you wonder about the technicals! Some goodies: Even though I've coded for iOS for a decade, AudioConverter stumped me. Here's a good summary: http://stackoverflow.com/questio... And here's some of the stuff I've learned about MPEG: http://stackoverflow.com/questio...

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11yr ago

BugClipper

@nevyn @ahussein why not do it directly from the app using the SDK ?

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11yr ago

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Maker

Hey All I'm part of the team (http://lookback.io) behind Unicorns. We're super happy to release and be on Product Hunt! To give some context... Unicorns was started as an internal experiment, we fell in love with how useful it has become and decided that we would love to see how this gets used out in the wild. It's a first version and early stages, we will be iterating as we progress but would love to get any feedback / questions. BTW here's an example user stream from earlier... https://unicorns.io/stream/99409...

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11yr ago

Moleskine Studio

@neiltak I have been wanting exactly this app for ages! Fantastic execution and great branding :-) Did you consider making it a paid app?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@hamey @neiltak hi Ben, thats great to hear - thank you very much. We haven't thought too far ahead to be honest, we limited the features also as we don't want to dictate how people use it at this stage. Very excited to see what people do with it.

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11yr ago

Moleskine Studio

@neiltak Awesome! Good approach.

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11yr ago

Tiny Notes

@neiltak this is so useful. I used to stream my 2nd phones screen through meerkat/periscope. Those silly days are gone with this baby👻😍

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11yr ago

Tiny Notes

Found out about this through @ow thanks again!!

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11yr ago

Noti

Cool idea, but why is the performance so bad compared to quicktime capture? Even without streaming the resolution is really low and even though it states it's 30fps, it certainly isn't 30fps, it's 10 at max. All though it's great that this single application handles everything at once, if you just simply record quicktime with (for example) OBS, you'll have a much higher quality stream. (both in resolution and framerate)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@jarizwarts the fps depends on a few factors, we've seen very good fps, but its adaptive to your connection and other factors... currently it is limited to 30 max due to the nature of the tech we are using. BTW when you start a stream, it always starts off low and improves :)

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11yr ago

Noti

@neiltak What I said in my question was that before even starting a stream, it was already heavily underperforming the native quicktime recording (in FPS and quality) and I was wondering why that is. I didn't say anything about the stream itself.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@jarizwarts ah ok, apologies miss-read. I think we may have reduced the fps in the preview for perf. reasons when streaming, I'll check that, but we definitely have work to do – pleased to have this version out though. Thanks

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11yr ago

Giffage

This is awesome and I've been waiting for this for so long. Question: can it record audio from the mic as well?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@jeshalom it can, we had this feature but removed for now so as we could focus on a core release, but this may be added soon :)

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11yr ago

Giffage

@neiltak @jeshalom will it be possible to use Unicorns without having to connect it to a Mac?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@jeshalom not right now, but the team are doing some cool things at http://lookback.io, so watch this space :)

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11yr ago

Linear

love the idea. there's a lot of use cases where this would come in handy! any plans on developing an android version as well?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@lehrjulian Thanks. Potentially, we just want to get this version out and then iterate, but we do support other platforms for our other products https://lookback.io, so no reason why not! :)

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11yr ago

Is this application only available for Apple products? Working on anything for Android and Windows users?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@cinziapinamonti It is. Both of those platforms are super interesting though! Especially on Android, as it could just be an app without connecting it to a computer to do Unicorns streaming. We're not working on such a product right now, though; so for now, Unicorns is limited to Apple products.

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