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

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Post by aranibatta »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #121
KingOfCoders wrote: post #54

"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.

Less aggressively, pricing is a historically bad way to create urgency in software

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

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Post by brailsafe »

dcow wrote: post #153
brailsafe wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yep, that's obviously where the value would be, but the basics have been default for quite some time unless you're using a linux or windows workstation

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

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Post by jkaplowitz »

stevenicr wrote: post #161
KingOfCoders wrote: post #54

"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.

Similar thought, but also thought this is setup for a lawsuit - I mean, I get lifetime unlimited video storage for $9 a month? I can already think of several ways to abuse that and then complain.

“For the lifetime of your subscription“ still lets them cancel the subscription unilaterally without breaking the promise. So if they want to hike the price of existing subscriptions, they can still legally say “agree to the price increase or your subscription will end on X date, after which you can choose to re-subscribe at the new price if you like.” It just prevents them from automatically and unilaterally increasing these subscriptions’ prices.

It also might not prevent them from amending the fair use terms of the subscription to require paying overage charges for unfair or abusive usage patterns, without unilaterally changing the monthly price.

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

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Post by dcow »

brailsafe wrote: post #172
dcow wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yep, that's obviously where the value would be, but the basics have been default for quite some time unless you're using a linux or windows workstation

the system video capture on macOS outputs a .mov not an mp4.

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

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Post by krashidov »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #157
untech wrote: post #155

Quick 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.

ehhh, the value in loom is easily having a link to pass around instead of a 1gb file I have to upload everywhere

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

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Post by martin82 »

doubloon wrote: post #137
andrewaylett wrote: post #131

The 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?

This was exactly the reason why I never clicked faster on a HN link...

my day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable...

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

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Post by fragmede »

krashidov wrote: post #175
jasonjmcghee wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

ehhh, the value in loom is easily having a link to pass around instead of a 1gb file I have to upload everywhere

hosting an mp4 online is trivial these days, but you post videos to YouTube because that's where they'll get seen.

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

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Post by wkat4242 »

JohnFen wrote: post #164
doubloon wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean its not the Lucas Arts game from the 80s/90s?

I genuinely thought that's what the article was about before clicking.

Me too, especially because it was quite groundbreaking at the time with its dynamic music engine.

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

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Post by geor9e »

someguydave wrote: post #145
geor9e wrote: 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…

Why does adding your face in a screen bubble add value to a screen recording tutorial?

Are you asking in general why billions of online videos and conference calls are in this format? Or are you asking me personally? Personally I just like looking at my beautiful face.

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

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Post by kbenson »

wkat4242 wrote: post #178
JohnFen wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I genuinely thought that's what the article was about before clicking.

Me too, especially because it was quite groundbreaking at the time with its dynamic music engine.

And I think various open source engines, reimplementations or examinations of the original have been posted a to HN a few times over the years to a lot of positive comments as people remembered the original. I assumed this was another along the same lines.
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