Devsession vs Fresco

Terminal session sharing and collaborative coding from your own IDE as straightforward as sharing a URL, powered by our open-source terminal workspace Zellij!

My favorite part of development is resolving large and complex merge conflicts.
--No one, ever

## Share your terminal without sharing your cursor

Devsession will also allow you to synchronize your terminal, with each user having their own cursor rather than being made to share the cursor with others. This would allow developers to hop between the different environments of their teammates in order to be able to seamlessly pair on a joint problem in the middle of development.

This solution could also be used separately. In order to collaborate on solving a production issue or temporarily helping a friend out of a jam.

Find our more about terminal sharing here:
https://devsession.is/terminal-sharing/

## Join a dev session from your own IDE

With Devsession, the code is shared between all members of the team, but each one still works in their own environment.
Devsession will also include a built in set of feature flags, allowing developers to switch each other's changes on and off if they want to temporarily work alone without having to diverge the code itself.

The feature flags are logical rather than textual. This means that instead of having a language-specific feature flag such as if (my_feature_flag_name == true) inside the code, Devsession will be able to manage which parts of the code should appear in your editor depending on which flags you switched on.

In addition, Devsession will include a built in modern messaging system. Meaning that if you don't want to be interrupted in your flow, you could also set yourself as Do not disturb, and then your teammates can always switch off your feature flag if they want to.

Read more here:
https://devsession.is/ide-synchronizer/

## Devsession is an open source company

Devsession was started by the team behind Zellij:
https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij

We intend to use Zellij as our technological infrastructure and be the first major app in a growing ecosystem around it. To that end, we intend to sponsor the development of Zellij and work to improve it and nurture others who might benefit from the infrastructure it offers.

As a free service to the Zellij community, Devsession also intends to offer terminal sharing over the web for free. Sharing that will not lock users in to only having one cursor each, but instead allow them to work separately in the same session. When we launch, we intend for terminal sharing to be as simple as sending a friend a URL: https://my.devsession.is/alices-.... They would open the URL in their browser or through Zellij and immediately start working together.

Location: Vienna, Austria

An intuitive online whiteboard for real-time collaboration

Fresco makes collaboration more straightforward than ever. Our intuitive whiteboard lets you work with your team in real-time, collaborating on a series of pre-made and custom templates.

Besides offering a real-time collaboration experience, Fresco boasts an internal task manager and an integrated spreadsheet to help connect your workspace. Tasks can be assigned to prioritize your next steps, and the data you create in Fresco can be exported to other platforms, so nothing gets stuck in your board. These features help optimize the collaboration process and everything that comes after.

Fresco is especially helpful for managing projects, brainstorming, facilitating meetings, virtual workshops, and journey mapping, just to name a few use cases.

Created through the heart of the covid-19 pandemic, we built Fresco with an understanding of how important collaboration is for everyone. Fresco's mission is to be the most intuitive, easy-to-use online whiteboard available. We want to make it simple for users to collaborate but also to integrate Fresco into their existing workflow. Tools in isolation can only go so far, and Fresco allows you to import and export data to provide a seamless experience.

Many people’s first question about our product is, “how is it different?” The market has multiple different tools that all do a similar thing, so how are we special? For starters, our task manager and spreadsheet are 100% unique, offering value you can’t find anywhere else. We also place a high emphasis on simplicity. We want to make collaborating online and conducting virtual meetings as simple as possible, and our interface prioritizes this value. Visual collaboration should be intuitive and accessible for everyone, and Fresco makes that possible.

Location: San Francisco, United States