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Thanks for the reply. What kind of market analysis did you do before building this, err, again (and better)?

You support Linux (well!), I’m surprised your beta testers didn’t say anything. That’s an interesting problem —I wonder what other blind spots like this can be avoided.




Heh. I use gnu screen daily. Saw this and immediate downloaded it (I missed screenhero so much) and got coworkers to use it with me, and never considered the name collision. I'm surprised by the number of comments about it.


The main market analysis was asking users what their pain points were and solving them. Screenhero didn’t have robust drawing, for instance.

Admittedly, we only had a handful of Linux users in our private beta, but still, none of them mentioned the GNU tool.




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