Anybody play with the <https://playb.it> yet? Impr...
# thinking-togetherk
Kartik Agaram
06/03/2025, 7:06 PM
Anybody play with the https://playb.it yet? Impressions?
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vitorio
06/03/2025, 9:18 PMWoah, they launched something? I was on their Google Group from 2021 but it got quiet real quick: Playbit - Google Groups
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Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 7:08 AMJust tried it out. Really like the vision in https://playb.it/careers/ , and it's quite pretty, but I don't quite get how to access the shared workspace features
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 7:08 AMMaybe its not in the alpha yet, or maybe I just missed where to look for it, not sure
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 7:09 AMEither way, thanks for the link
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Konrad Hinsen
06/04/2025, 7:23 AMI tried it out a while ago. It works, and looks pretty, but I don't see anything useful I could do with it at this stage.
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Angus Mitchell
06/04/2025, 2:42 PMAre you running it as a VM? Or booting from it? (I don't have access yet)
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Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 3:28 PMIf you sign up with an email, they send access right away
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 3:28 PMI signed up and got in within a minute
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 3:28 PM& running on qemu since I don't have a mac
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 3:29 PMMy take is the same as Konrad's rn: it has what looks like a lovely UI framework and window manager but not a lot else, and the neat part about sharing state across installs isn't implemented yet
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Angus Mitchell
06/04/2025, 3:41 PMI talked to this girl at Amazon one time who said that their whole team had enabled remote desktop control on each other's work computers to make collaboration easier
Angus Mitchell
06/04/2025, 3:41 PMNot as vibey, but sounds like they were solving for the same problem
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Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 4:11 PMYeah, I keep going back and forth on if I think real collaborative multiplayer is worth the hassle
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 4:13 PMCompared to the easier solution of having a single thread with optionally a VM migration to move it closer to you as a performance enhancement
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 4:13 PMOr the easier still solution of just having a nice screen sharing
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 4:15 PMArcan , a project I love , is doing some neat stuff x11 style of remotely starting processing and streaming in the result, to do things like running the web browser on completely separate hardware set to reimage itself when the window closes.
Spencer Fleming
06/04/2025, 4:16 PMAnd you don't have to learn CRDTs :p, which seem neat but having to add conflict resolution everywhere does seem like it complicates things
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Konrad Hinsen
06/04/2025, 6:48 PMI ran playb.it via qemu. No need to sign up anywhere, just download the image from https://playb.it/alpha/