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Some feedback on your site's UX - on desktop, I don't expect hovering on a menu item to open a new context, so by habit I click on it. You're opening on hover, though, and my click is closing the context immediately.
Reasons I use Loom: - Social features, users can comment & engage with my video to provide feedback - Analytics, I get notifications when a user views a video (useful for demos/sales) - Post-capture editing - Set 1.X speed by default on videos (significantly reduces video length) I don't find the capturing element of loom very good. Their chrome integration is pretty bad, seems to not handle clicking/changing pages w…
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I have no idea what Loom is, I also have the same issue I didn't tell me what the product is and just got confuse and didn't explore further.
Same. I’ve never heard of Loom and (therefore?) I’m honestly not sure how this would be different on a Mac than a QuickTime screen recording. And since the promo images are from a Mac, my first thought is Quicktime is probably safer.
The target customer is a business who is making demo videos and needs these kinds of tracking/collaboration/commenting features.
Folks interested in open source maybe want a better offering, don’t want to be locked in, want more favorable pricing, or want a self hosted version.
As someone who has used loom, the value proposition is clear from the title without even going to the website.
Some honest feedback: describe your product/tool without using a competitor’s name. I’m on mobile and the landing page only tells me “recording software” and “Loom” before it drops into Twitter like 3rd party comments. I honestly have never used Loom. I don’t know what it is. Do you really want me to have to go look up “the competition” just to know who you are?
I disagree - the fact you don’t know what Loom is probably means you’re not in the market for this kind of software. Better, at this stage, to focus on users who will immediately get it rather than explain to folks who don’t currently have a need.
Loom had a head-start, but other companies (e.g. Vimeo) copied the feature pretty quickly.
And also, more importantly, this is a “Show HN” post, so reasonable for people here to question the comparison.
Make me remember the pain, and show me really clearly how your software will fix it right now. Screen studio does a good job of this.
I thought this was about the adventure game Loom but no.
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)
Some honest feedback: describe your product/tool without using a competitor’s name. I’m on mobile and the landing page only tells me “recording software” and “Loom” before it drops into Twitter like 3rd party comments. I honestly have never used Loom. I don’t know what it is. Do you really want me to have to go look up “the competition” just to know who you are?
Definitely agree with what you're saying. It's easier for us at the start to get some attention from Loom specific users by mentioning Loom directly, but it's not a sustainable strategy going forward. Will update the marketing copy etc over the coming weeks/months to be more about the problem we're solving specifically.
“Screen recording software that emphasizes simple sharing. An open source alternative to Loom”. Still super simple but is more useful to people less exposed to your world.
If there’s one way to turn off a good portion of people from using your project, it’s by locking down the community into a discord.