We just launched Nextprev.it — A project we put together over a couple of days.<p>The project stemmed from a frustration with PDF file transfers and screen-sharing when giving design presentations to clients through Skype.<p>Please give it a go and let us know what you think - @nextprev<p>Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
It's not really the same purpose but a cool feature to me would be a sponsorship / deck feature so you can send it out to see who views it individually. So you can see which potential sponsors actually look at the info you send, and which pages.
I will start using this immediately. Question- do the links expire after a certain amount of time, or can I control how long the PDF is available at that link? That would be an important feature to me (as a way to protect confidentiality etc)
Yes, we'll delete files and links after 24 hours. That's not implemented yet, but will be happening by the end of the weekend.
We're also planning some pro features like account-level permissions, and we could serve the PDF file dynamically from our servers instead of storing it on S3.
I'd love to know if you have any precise security requirements, feel free to email me: alex@heeton.me
Very very nice, congratulations !
Could you share a little bit of the technologies used ?
How to you make every browser go to the same page ?
Do you think this would be possible with video as well, like making sure everybody is at the same point on a video ?
We host the PDFs on AmazonS3, and use PDJ.js to render them on the page. To keep everyone on the same page, we use websocket events via Pusher.
Video would be quite different, so we don't have any plans for that now.
framebench.com does this for video, PDF and images.. syncs pan and zoom position as well. In private beta, collecting some great feedback for now :)
Great to see people building apps which leverage the power of sockets and enable real time interactions on the web. A trend which is much likely to catch fire soon.
Great demo! I'd make the "You see this" "They see this" images larger. And add a favicon, if only so it's more clear that the "<>" at top left is a logo (and when the user clicks on the logo, go home).
Are things broken right now? No matter the browser, when I try to upload one of my small PowerDot created presentations (90k), it just pops a banner up that says "Thanks for signing up" and nothing happens.
Check up the compatibility.js file that comes with pdfjs. We edited some portions according to our need to have some PDFs render properly. Although we're not totally there yet too!
