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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by tristor »

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".

Loom is the best option currently in the market for doing screencast recordings and demo recordings. I use it extensively, and started out using other alternatives like complex configurations in OBS. Loom is not only a superior UX, but the built-in web editor works perfectly without requiring the heavy weight of installing, learning, and using (and often paying for) a more pro-grade video editor for doing simple tasks.

This may be because I'm a PM now, because I didn't do this type of thing as an engineer, but I have grown a huge appreciation for visual tools because "a picture is worth a thousand words". If I can show somebody the behavior that I am talking about, actually get a record of a bug happening, or build a demo that doesn't feel like a slide deck and is showing actual product experience, it has a deeper visceral impact on customers and engineers, and speeds up resolution time or identifying directionality of design.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by solardev »

flashgordon wrote: post #139
edgyquant wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

If I remember correctly, they also host the edited videos and the recipient gets a link to their hosted version.

That's the reason I didn't sign up (I wanted to send the video over Slack directly), but it does functionally add a moat where all your videos are on their servers, like YouTube.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by Atotalnoob »

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…

They are worth $1 billion due to their customer base.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by dmurray »

swivelmaster wrote: post #109
eptcyka wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coming from a deep, shameful corner of ignorance, but what's special about recording a screen and sharing it via the comms tool of choice (IM, Slack, Signal, e-mail)? I do love the idea of sharing a screen recording of features though.

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

Surely those are the qualities Atlassian will want to change as quickly as possible, though.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by passion__desire »

antidnan wrote: post #96

I know screen recording tools are widely used in the engineering world... I always thought they were more impressive for how much they culturally normalized screen recording in the rest of the corporate world. Separately, I'm a big fan of cleanshotX.

Isn't there a Mac app which can record your programming presentation or demo video and turn into slides using AI? That feature could be next step for Loom acquisition.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by foobarian »

sb8244 wrote: post #142
flashgordon wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

Maybe going outside of engineering? I use both loom and cmd opt 5, but my CS and sales team would not be able to effectively use cmd5 (editing, hosting, comments, etc.) The moat for us is that it just works and is cheap enough that moving off is literally not worth my time.

Sadly these days it seems that having good taste and not having embarked on the enshittification train itself is a pretty great moat.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by Spivak »

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…

How does it compete with macOS screenshot in recording mode? Because that sounds basically the same flow just drag/dropping the output file into Slack.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by 1123581321 »

zoogeny wrote: post #147

I applied to Loom several years ago while they were still tiny. The CEO sent me a Loom thanking me for applying and asking me to send him back a Loom describing why I was excited to work for his company. Something about that rubbed me the wrong way at the time. I didn't reply and dipped out of the interview process.

I like that. Much faster than writing a cover letter or application email and shows you understand what they make. I take it you weren’t that interested in their product.
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