Petal
Low latency, high resolution screensharing and remote control.
4Rank on 15 October 2026New on 15 Oct
Petal launched on 14 October 2026. It ranked #4 on Daily Launch on 15 October 2026 with a Launch Score of 84, from 203 points on Show HN. It was new in the ranking that day.
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What is Petal?
I’m Jason Thomas, one of the founders of CoScreen. As some of you may know, Datadog sunset the CoScreen service on July 31st. Some history first, because when we started CoScreen we had hoped to break the sad and established pattern of this industry.
From its Hacker News post
Petal is a launch on Show HN.
In its own words
open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free
From its Show HN post
Launch timeline
Launch Score, last 7 days
Ranked on one day so far: 84 of 100 on 15 October.