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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by blairbeckwith »

j45 wrote: post #65
blairbeckwith wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

companies are generally valued based on their revenue and user base rather than their product it is true that $975M is too high a price for a screen recorder when they could have bought a licence to Cleanshot for $19

Neat. Does cleanshot auto upload and process the video as well?

There is an associated cloud service called Cleanshot Cloud – all licenses get a small amount of storage for free, or you can upgrade to Unlimited for a monthly subscription.

Alternatively, because it's a great native-first app, you can just set the saving directory to an existing cloud provider on your machine like Dropbox and let it handle uploading and serving the file.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by ebiester »

debugnik wrote: post #38
butlike wrote: post #27

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The best thing about video is it tethers me to the speed of the content the rambling, 15-minute video content creator mandated; not the speed I can peruse an article. Also the first person to invent Ctrl+F for video will be a billionaire.

> Also the first person to invent Ctrl+F for video will be a billionaire. At least YouTube (desktop web) lets you open the (often auto-generated) captions as a transcript on the side.

I don’t use loom, but I remember an interview with someone who had it in their workflow. Isn’t some of Loom’s appeal transcript and video search?

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by j45 »

rqtwteye wrote: post #32
TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #21

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Good grief. If the age of YouTube has taught us anything, it's that creating good video of something takes a lot more skill than writing something decent about something. Trying to find the relevant issue in a bunch of unrelated info, within a long writeup, which a user necessarily edits, at least a little, by the nature of writing something out? Pretty easy. Trying to find it in a rambling, 15-minute video? Welp! Go…

I doubt people will record 15 minute videos to report an issue. From my experience people are much better at recording a relevant video vs. describing the issue in our text.

It’s super common and reasonable if it saves days and dozens of emails just to replicate

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by the8472 »

athorax wrote: post #4

Who is asking for this? As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos

> engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira

I already use windows game mode for screen captures. Why would I need a separate application for that?

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by j45 »

s3r3nity wrote: post #10
athorax wrote: post #4

Who is asking for this? As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos

>engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira I see this issue all the time in bug reports and it can be pretty helpful to see a short video on how to replicate the issue. Depending upon the type of user submitting those reports they are often _more_ helpful than straight text because I don't have to have as lengthy back-and-forth Q&A on getting more details.

The free version of Jing used to have a 5 minute limit and it was the perfect constraint to ensure short or multiple videos

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by the8472 »

dartos wrote: post #56
candiddevmike wrote: post #5

$1.5B for a screen recorder

And the infrastructure around storing and distributing those videos. Along with existing integrations into other enterprise software (like confluence, jira, and zoom) The compliance work for storing and distributing this data is already done. The staff of experts that don’t need to be sourced by recruiters. The new ability to prevent sites like Monday from integrating with it. Not to mention the existing loom custome…

JIRA already had attachments.

Win+G, drag & drop

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by programmarchy »

j45 wrote: post #65
blairbeckwith wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

companies are generally valued based on their revenue and user base rather than their product it is true that $975M is too high a price for a screen recorder when they could have bought a licence to Cleanshot for $19

Neat. Does cleanshot auto upload and process the video as well?

Yeah, Loom nailed this feature. Streaming the upload while recording means the video is ready to share instantly, which is very slick. Great UX.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by j45 »

CalRobert wrote: post #24
Zambyte wrote: post #15

From loom.com > Loom works wherever you do. > Get Loom for Free > For Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android Looks like Loom does not work wherever I do.

All of our backend devs (including myself) are on Linux (and use Firefox) so Loom was a nonstarter for us.

It’s surprising loom doesn’t work on Linux. I wonder why.
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