Devsession vs Wiith

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

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## 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.

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Hang out with someone new

Finding friends and finding things to do with friends can be difficult. Wiith is an new app that seeks to solve this challenge and bring people together, starting with San Francisco.

It was discussed on product hunt today. http://www.producthunt.com/posts/wiith

Wiith allows users to create events and select who joins them. Users can also browse activities and request to join the event creators. From a cycle over the golden gate bridge to a picnic in Alamo Square, any activity that can be imagined can be shared, spontaneously.

It had been built by founders Gentian Edwards, a product designer and Jeff Hodnett a mobile engineer.

Gentian, came up with the idea when she first moved from the UK to San Francisco. She found herself in an amazing new city without knowing many people she could explore it with.

Gentian found Meetup groups too orchestrated and impersonal and Tinder solely for dating. “I needed an app to make girlfriends and meet guys without any connotations”, said Gentian, when describing the need she identified.

Jeff is no stranger to launching new products nor meeting people in a new city. Originally from Ireland, he first worked with Gentian at a mobile agency in London. Jeff said: “Anyone who has ever been new to a city knows how difficult it can be to meet new people. This can be especially true in a city as transient as San Francisco. We wanted to create an app that brings people together, it's ambiguous you can use it as you wish.