Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
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Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#2Other than the Chrome icon on the "Get It" button, there's no real indication on the page that this is a Chrome only extension.
I like the design though. Looks pretty slick.
What's the target use case?
Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#3Other than the Chrome icon on the "Get It" button, there's no real indication on the page that this is a Chrome only extension. I like the design though. Looks pretty slick. What's the target use case?
One of the makers here, good question. We think there's a number of use cases - customer support (screen cap what they're doing wrong) and sales (personalized sales pitch) being the most obvious for the time being.
Also, good point on the Chrome Extension messaging, will fix.
Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#4Hi, I'm Steve, one of the developers on the ViewedIt team. If you have any questions about ViewedIt, we're listening and are happy to answer them.
ViewedIt recordings are powered by the chrome screen recording apis - https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabCapture for browser tab recording, getUserMedia for screen & webcam, and the MediaRecorder api to record the streams.
Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#5As a sysadmin/IT person, this looks pretty helpful in making user training pretty easy.
The user tracking would help with ensuring that our userbase actually watched our policy videos too. Love it.
Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#6This is great! Now I won't have to write paragraphs explaining design decisions to my clients.
That single click to gmail is bae.
Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#7This sounds nice:
Is ViewedIt really free?
Yes! We believe in the power of video creation and storytelling and want to give it to everyone.
Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#8This sounds nice: Is ViewedIt really free? Yes! We believe in the power of video creation and storytelling and want to give it to everyone. But how will you support the project as it grows?
The product is built by Vidyard, so we make money on the enterprise platform. The use of ViewedIt will always be free. I talked about this a little more here: https://medium.com/@devongall/https-medium-com-devongall-the...
Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#9I was a beta tester for this and it's pretty great for sharing screen caps of UX issues in our software and showing off new features in Github pull requests.
Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
#10Hi, I'm Steve, one of the developers on the ViewedIt team. If you have any questions about ViewedIt, we're listening and are happy to answer them. ViewedIt recordings are powered by the chrome screen recording apis - https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabCapture for browser tab recording, getUserMedia for screen & webcam, and the MediaRecorder api to record the streams.
As a person receiving the screen recording, do I have the option to opt-out, and not report my viewing metrics back to the creator?