Screenhero

Screenhero was a Y Combinator (W13) startup that built interactive screen sharing with voice and video, letting remote users share and control any application together. It was acquired by Slack in January 2015; the six-person team joined Slack and the standalone Screenhero product was discontinued, with its screen-sharing, voice, and video capabilities folded into Slack (today surfaced as Slack Huddles). The screenhero.com domain now 301-redirects to slack.com/features/huddles. No independent Screenhero developer portal, API, or SDK exists; this record is retained as a historical a16z portfolio-company lead in the API Evangelist network.

Screenhero is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Screen Sharing, Video Conferencing, Collaboration, and Remote Work.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyScreen SharingVideo ConferencingCollaborationRemote WorkAcquiredY Combinator

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: Screenhero
description: Screenhero was a Y Combinator (W13) startup that built interactive screen sharing with voice and video, letting
  remote users share and control any application together. It was acquired by Slack in January 2015; the six-person team joined
  Slack and the standalone Screenhero product was discontinued, with its screen-sharing, voice, and video capabilities folded
  into Slack (today surfaced as Slack Huddles). The screenhero.com domain now 301-redirects to slack.com/features/huddles.
  No independent Screenhero developer portal, API, or SDK exists; this record is retained as a historical a16z portfolio-company
  lead in the API Evangelist network.
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- Video Conferencing
- Collaboration
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