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Petal brings open-source screen-sharing pair programming after CoScreen

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Four former CoScreen team members built Petal as a free, open-source pairing tool after Datadog sunset CoScreen. Teams evaluating remote-pairing tools may find an open alternative, though the excerpt gives few implementation details.

What

• Petal is an open-source pair-programming app that shares real desktop windows for remote collaboration.

How

• It supports simultaneous window sharing, labeled user cursors and remote mouse and keyboard input; teams can use Petal Cloud or self-host with LiveKit.

Why it matters

• Interactive shared windows let engineers collaborate on desktop work, while self-hosting keeps media traffic on infrastructure they run.

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