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Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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alyssaxuu wrote: post #2

After trying out some of the most popular screen recorders for Chrome, I realized how lacking and limited many of them were. So I decided to create the most powerful screen recorder for Chrome, completely free and open source, with lots of features such as freedrawing, text, arrows, multiple cursor options, push to talk, custom countdowns, editing, and much more. Let me know what you think! I have also created a Goog…

You're really a genius. 19 and you create all this amazing graphics stuff, with amazing UX. Wow! What's your story for getting into software?

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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graderjs wrote: post #21
alyssaxuu wrote: post #2

After trying out some of the most popular screen recorders for Chrome, I realized how lacking and limited many of them were. So I decided to create the most powerful screen recorder for Chrome, completely free and open source, with lots of features such as freedrawing, text, arrows, multiple cursor options, push to talk, custom countdowns, editing, and much more. Let me know what you think! I have also created a Goog…

You're really a genius. 19 and you create all this amazing graphics stuff, with amazing UX. Wow! What's your story for getting into software?

Haha I turned 20 just a couple months ago :P Thanks!

I've been coding from a very young age, I started at ~7 with Visual Basic making all sorts of programs, and Action Script in Flash for creating simple games. I've just been always had a lot of ideas I wanted to execute on, so whenever I thought "I wish X existed" I just learnt how to make it myself. That's how I got into web development specifically, at high school I wanted to have a better way to organize my homework and events so I built a collaborative task manager with many features (tags, Gantt chart with tasks starting when another ended, shared tasks between other students via teams, different priority assigned to tasks, choosing to see tasks only within a specific timeframe...), all without any prior knowledge of PHP or Javascript. I just watched a lot of tutorials and read through guides and I built it in a few months.

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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Post by nfour »

alyssaxuu wrote: post #22
graderjs wrote: post #21

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You're really a genius. 19 and you create all this amazing graphics stuff, with amazing UX. Wow! What's your story for getting into software?

Haha I turned 20 just a couple months ago :P Thanks! I've been coding from a very young age, I started at ~7 with Visual Basic making all sorts of programs, and Action Script in Flash for creating simple games. I've just been always had a lot of ideas I wanted to execute on, so whenever I thought "I wish X existed" I just learnt how to make it myself. That's how I got into web development specifically, at high school…

Cool to hear stories like this.

I started around 18yrs old with irc bots, then wordpress, php, js, nodejs, ts, rust etc.

The programmer's life can at times feel effortless when it's driven by a passion to create.

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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Post by alyssaxuu »

135792468 wrote: post #25

I’m on mobile but can’t wait to try it. Very impressed not with your product but with the research you’ve done. That GoogleSheet is extensive as hell.

Thanks! I spent several days searching for screen recorder extensions and trying them out one by one. It was helpful to understand all the features Screenity needed, not just based on what was available in the extensions, but also from what people complained about in the reviews. On top of that I also tried some desktop screen recorders to add unique features such as push to talk or individual audio controls while recording (system/microphone) which aren't a thing in any other Chrome Extension.
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