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As a rambling CTO myself, I admire your nick name.
I assume all the downvotes because you are envy of the nick name too.
I think rambling is a job requirement for CTOs.
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Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#152The home page does somewhat assume that the reader knows what "Loom" is -- if I'm not already a Loom user, that's pretty much instructing me to go look at Loom first because it's obviously the market leader in whatever-it-does. From context, I'm guessing it's not about textile manufacture?
You mean its not the Lucas Arts game from the 80s/90s?
I was 100% expecting to see a reimplementation of that game
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You’re right it doesn’t have upload though. That's surprising considering how Apple pushes iCloud integration...
It may not have upload, but in any worthwhile collaboration solution you can literally just drag your screen recording into the rich text area of a comment and have it show up, maybe after converting it to a neutral codec. I did this in my last job with Jira, GitHub, and Slack, ez
Of course you can do this. Loom does the conversion and compression for you automatically so you have an instantly sharable video. Saves me time. That’s the point.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple also pushes privacy and on-device processing; But as for the feature itself: why on earth would you want a video uploaded somewhere else before you've even had a chance to watch it back at least once?
Because you’re showing a colleague how to use a simple inventory tracker that you’ve created in Google Sheets. Or how the new multilingual Figma templates work. Or how to batch rename a folder full of files using the command line. Or whatever, really. You already know what’s in the video because you literally just recorded it. And it doesn’t need to be polished because it’s probably just going to one coworker, who wi…
You can also watch the video before sending the link…
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#155Quick PSA: If you want to do a facecam-overlayed screen recording on a Mac, all you need is QuickTime.
1. QuickTime -> New Movie Recording
2. View -> Float on Top
3. Position face view where you want it to be.
4. Hit Cmd+Shift+5 to record the entire screen.
Voilà!
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean its not the Lucas Arts game from the 80s/90s?
I was 100% expecting to see a reimplementation of that game
You might be interested in "Forge", the open-source sequel…
https://forgegame.com/ (last updated 2015, alas)
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#157Quick PSA: If you want to do a facecam-overlayed screen recording on a Mac, all you need is QuickTime. 1. QuickTime -> New Movie Recording 2. View -> Float on Top 3. Position face view where you want it to be. 4. Hit Cmd+Shift+5 to record the entire screen. Voilà!
The number of products that can be successfully marketed due to small friction or non obvious UX is high.
I think this will change as we shift to AI-assisted desktop / smart Siri.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
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macOS does have overlay functionality, it’s called presenter mode or something like that. Look for it in the green camera icon that shows up in the menu bar when you’re sharing your screen. It puts your face in a bubble overlayed on top of whatever you’re sharing, as you said. You’re right it doesn’t have upload though.
That works for FaceTime calls, but not for video recordings with QuickTime.
Oh interesting, I just looked into it and apparently it requires the app to support it. Apps like Keynote, Zoom, Slack, Facetime and Teams Classic (but not "new Teams") all support it. That's really strange imo, you'd think the OS would just add the overlay to the video signal and pass it through to the app. I wonder why it's implemented this way. The other OS-level video features like portrait mode, studio lighting, reactions and center stage don't require support from the app at all.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#159How 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…
Where can I pay to build Loom functionality and polish into OBS, making this open source and available in perpetuity? I mean no offense to products of these sorts, but the constant reinventing of the wheel, product churn, etc is somewhat disheartening when people just want the ability to screencast in a frictionless manner.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#160The home page does somewhat assume that the reader knows what "Loom" is -- if I'm not already a Loom user, that's pretty much instructing me to go look at Loom first because it's obviously the market leader in whatever-it-does. From context, I'm guessing it's not about textile manufacture?
You mean its not the Lucas Arts game from the 80s/90s?
I wonder how many people upvoted this without reading, assuming it's that Loom.