Turn any website into an instant forum, where you can: leave comments, see other people's cursors / what text they're highlighting, and chat with them. Use it to annotate code, highlight online tutorials / books, and discuss people's blogs.
Hey Product Hunt!
Web browsing is currently a solitary activity. You may discover a cool blog, but, unlike a Google Doc, you can't leave a comment on it for everyone to see.
Web Highlighter fixes this. Go to webhighlighter.com/upload and and paste in (almost) any URL to get a real time, collaborative version of the web-page. Share it with people and let them comment away.
Features:
- 🖊️ View other people's comments & reply to them
- ⌨️ Write your own comments by highlighting text on the page and hitting the comment button
- 👀 See other people's mouse cursors and what text they've currently selected on the web-page
- 💬 Chat with people by pressing /
- ⚡ Everything is real time. Comments, mouse cursors, replies all update instantly.
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Really nice idea! I see another more business oriented user case. A customer of a web agency comments on the web highlighter version of his/her website, the web agency replies and or implemented the changes.
Maybe s possible permission feature of a future paid plan: keep the link to the web highlighter version of the page hidden.
Cool idea!
@galaxyx7 Thanks for the kind words. This idea is an offshoot of: https://chimu.sh, which is a tool I built to combine Stack Overflow with books. (Roughly, Chimu is a collaborative e-reader that lets people read books and view other people's highlights. Each highlight links to a Stack Overflow-style forum).
I wanted to bring Chimu to every web-page, and so Web Highlighter was born.
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