Share your screen. Skip the account.

Nobody signs up. Either side.

Plenty of tools advertise "guests join free" and then quietly require the host to register. Linkside doesn't have a registration flow to route you into. There is no user database, no profile page, no password to reset in six months. You click create a room, and you're hosting.

What an account is actually for

An account exists to attach things to you: saved recordings, meeting history, a contact list, a subscription to bill, usage to analyse. Linkside stores none of those things — sessions aren't recorded, rooms are deleted when they end, and there's no history feature. An account here would collect your email in exchange for nothing. So we didn't build one.

The link is the credential

Access control still exists — it's just simpler. Whoever has the room link can knock; the host controls the room. And because rooms are short-lived, the link is too: when the session ends, the room is gone, and the old link opens nothing. You don't need to remember to revoke access to something that no longer exists.

What it feels like for a guest

They tap your link and their browser opens the room. No password, no captcha, no email gate, no "create a free account to continue." For the person on the other end — a client, your dad, a customer mid-support-call — the difference between that and a sign-up wall is often the difference between the call happening and not. We wrote about that in screen sharing with someone who isn't technical.

Even paying doesn't create an account

This is the detail that surprises people: the paid upgrade is a licence key, not a login. The purchase itself is handled by Lemon Squeezy, our payment provider; on our side, the app uses the key to unlock relay features — there is still no Linkside profile, no login, no account to manage.