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Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

#121

"This pricing will be locked in for the lifetime of your subscription." Highly doubtful, I have been cheated out of lifetime guarantees so many times. Latest when the company is sold.

You're also robbing yourself of increasing the prices to keep the lights on. Business-wise this is not a very good idea. Also as a customer I have the feeling that this is a stupid idea. If the costs increase, you have to increase prices. If I like something and want to keep using it, that's the only way.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Loom is software that, in one click, overlays your face in a bubble as you can narrate your screen recording, uploads it as it's recording, and when you press stop it copies a link to your clipboard you can share immediately with whoever you are showing. It's a very polished and complete experience. OBS is for streamers. It could be set up in a similar way if you already have a twitch channel hooked into it. It won't…

OBS works great when recording locally. Sure it works for streamers, but it also outputs to standard video formats easily. You don't need a twitch channel or anything like that. You'll need to figure out where to host the video after the fact (dropbox works well enough, as it allows the viewer to stream without downloading).

Yeah I fired up OBS for the first time and it was surprisingly easy to get set up. Every time I had a 'right how do I do x?' moment I figured it out in seconds.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

#123

"This pricing will be locked in for the lifetime of your subscription." Highly doubtful, I have been cheated out of lifetime guarantees so many times. Latest when the company is sold.

You're also robbing yourself of increasing the prices to keep the lights on. Business-wise this is not a very good idea. Also as a customer I have the feeling that this is a stupid idea. If the costs increase, you have to increase prices. If I like something and want to keep using it, that's the only way.

As a rambling CTO myself, I admire your nick name.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

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Is the ‘free’ part of open source not a priority? There is an AGPL license, but it looks like future contributors will be required to use proprietary services for this helping this project with Discord & Microsoft GitHub as the only communication options. If FOSS is good enough for your project, it should be good enough for the tools used to build your community…

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

#127
post #9

How does it compare to using either of the following on macOS - OBS - The built in screen recording functionality in macOS itself - ffmpeg (see http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop for details on doing screen capture with it)

Loom is software that, in one click, overlays your face in a bubble as you can narrate your screen recording, uploads it as it's recording, and when you press stop it copies a link to your clipboard you can share immediately with whoever you are showing. It's a very polished and complete experience. OBS is for streamers. It could be set up in a similar way if you already have a twitch channel hooked into it. It won't…

> ffmpeg is ffmpeg

What an excellent comment :D

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

#128

Is the ‘free’ part of open source not a priority? There is an AGPL license, but it looks like future contributors will be required to use proprietary services for this helping this project with Discord & Microsoft GitHub as the only communication options. If FOSS is good enough for your project, it should be good enough for the tools used to build your community…

That seems overy ideological. While the software itself might be good enough (it often isn't, as that's why these products are being developed), hosting it is a work that can be better spent on the project itself.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

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Why just Mac and not Linux or NT?

From https://github.com/CapSoftware/Cap : > Cap is currently in public beta, and is available for macOS and Web. Windows and Linux builds are in development. Join the Cap Discord ( https://discord.gg/y8gdQ3WRN3 ) to help test future releases and join the community.

The closed source platform Discord may not be the best place for an open source community, but this is probably a whole different discussion. https://matrix.org/
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