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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by tshaddox »

edgyquant wrote: post #104
heisgone wrote: post #87

This make perfect sense. Atlassian is cornering the market of "features nobody ask for but make for good sales pitch to clueless managers".

In what world is loom something no one asked for? I, and my team, use it everyday and have at my past two jobs as well. For engineers it’s a life saver being able to share a quick video of some code and the bug youre getting (or asking what some piece of code does) and also forcing junior engineers to do this for a PR guarantees the feature works/is a form of QA.

On MacOS Loom is extremely buggy and, even when it works, is way worse than MacOS’ built-in screen recording.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by diogenes4 »

segasuperstar wrote: post #129
habosa wrote: post #122

Loom is probably the simplest billion-dollar piece of software, but it's also excellent software and I am happy they're getting paid. Screen recording before Loom was a pain. You had to open up some program, start it, save the file, upload the file somewhere, and share it. And if you had to edit the recording at all ... probably start over. With Loom it's all one click and it's ready to share the instant you hit the…

My immediate reaction was that value-wise it was a joke, how can they be worth $1 billion? I agree with what you're saying here though, one click, ACL controlled and simple to use videos. Concur with the enablement of the remote culture. I would have thought Atlassian could clone that so simply. The Loom software is super buggy though, I have to open their site or extension or desktop app multiple times before it sta…

> I have thought about using Google Meet to record my desktop, I've heard the editor in that is pretty good, and you can stop, start, trim/edit & share in Google Drive or share further with a link.

Surely loom can't be any worse than google chrome

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by jedberg »

j45 wrote: post #84
NKosmatos wrote: post #59

Oh great, that’s what Jira and Confluence needed in order to make them more sluggish, less responsive and more user unfriendly… a video messaging platform integration. Good grief, who thinks of these things :-( With 1 billion and a team of software developers, I would put Jira and Confluence back on the right road, not acquire a video company ;-)

Agreed. The loom integration has been useful to attract some users who don’t use Jira otherwise. I just wish Jira-1369 would get solved after 20 years because users refuse to adopt Jira or confluence when they’re getting waterboarded with notifications instead of a timed digest that can be set.

Jira-1369 was closed four years ago.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by KRAKRISMOTT »

eptcyka wrote: post #128
throwanem wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Loom makes it very easy to voice over and annotate a recording, with both individually editable in a way raw screen recordings don't support, and to share the result via a link. It's not (yet?) heavily used among engs where I am, but we love it anyway for massively shortening the feedback loop with designers who can drop a 30-second demo of some prototype UI at the head of a Slack thread and asynchronously receive th…

Cool, this is the answer I was looking for. Thank you so much!

Their video summarization and speed-ups are killer features.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by jmuguy »

edgyquant wrote: post #104
heisgone wrote: post #87

This make perfect sense. Atlassian is cornering the market of "features nobody ask for but make for good sales pitch to clueless managers".

In what world is loom something no one asked for? I, and my team, use it everyday and have at my past two jobs as well. For engineers it’s a life saver being able to share a quick video of some code and the bug youre getting (or asking what some piece of code does) and also forcing junior engineers to do this for a PR guarantees the feature works/is a form of QA.

They seem to be glossing over the fact that Loom doesn't just record the screen - it immediately gives you a link to that recording.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by fishnchips »

nicoburns wrote: post #66
fishnchips wrote: post #29

Can they acquire Asana and merge it with Jira so that I can dislike one project management tool instead of two?

If you have influence on what tools you use at your place of work, then consider trying https://www.shortcut.com/ . It's UX is IMO fantastic (and it's UI is fast ) while being a lot more full-featured than something like Trello. (not associated with the company - just a happy customer who feels like they ought to be more widely known than they seem to be)

I think my team looked into that, among good few others. There is a decent number of tools that would work better for dev/product teams, but if you want to have one solution for the whole company, the list is shorter. We're currently living with ClickUp.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by flashgordon »

edgyquant wrote: post #104
heisgone wrote: post #87

This make perfect sense. Atlassian is cornering the market of "features nobody ask for but make for good sales pitch to clueless managers".

In what world is loom something no one asked for? I, and my team, use it everyday and have at my past two jobs as well. For engineers it’s a life saver being able to share a quick video of some code and the bug youre getting (or asking what some piece of code does) and also forcing junior engineers to do this for a PR guarantees the feature works/is a form of QA.

Actually the bigger q is where is Loom's moat? I've used loom too and I agree that being able take a video and do "mini editing" is useful but I guess I wouldn't pay for it given cmd-optiom-5 on osx. But still the real thing is where is the moat? I ask this because until recently I hadn't given much thought to "having paid users who will feel stupid to move off" was not a big deal but clearly it is?

To play devil's advocate though from a numbers point I think loom has about 20m users so this is $5 per user. But if acq is for a billion then I'd assume their actual revenue is something like 100m. So $5 /user/year. I guess in that sense once a user has paid that low price they are not thinking of moving off for a year so it is plenty of upsell opportunities for atlassian. Ofcourse depending on usage just the video hosting could cost them more than $5/user/ year? Interesting stuff!

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by scott_w »

hannes0 wrote: post #117
swivelmaster wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s well-executed and convenient. That’s worth a lot.

This discussion reminds me of when Dropbox was at ShowHN and someone was commenting on how this could be done with FTP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

To be fair, the person asking the question genuinely is interested in the answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37858345
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