Interesting if not surprising to see the criticisms here. We use loom extensively at work and as a remote employee it’s one of my favorite collaboration tools. Sending a video explaining a problem while I walk through code is often much easier than getting on a zoom call, and Loom is absolutely easier and more feature-filled than other forms of screen capture.
Atlassian Acquires Loom
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I still haven’t purchased Dropbox. When the choice came up, it seemed important for our backups not to be made in USA. So, indeed, a very cool replacement was SSH. I still don’t know anyone who didn’t leave Dropbox after they jacked up the prices. A USB key is much cheaper (and reliable, at the rate at which Dropbox nukes accounts that they deem not compliant with whatever policy).
Most people I know just went with their cloud provider's sync solution once everyone added one (GDrive, iCloud, Amazon photos, OneDrive, Creative Cloud, etc.) Can't remember the last time I saw a USB key in use anymore. The cloud stuff is convenient, but it quickly became a commoditu Dropbox is still better in some small ways (like delta syncs) but it wasn't enough I guess.
It's amusing to see "but it wasn't enough I guess" in relation to a profitable $10 billion company with 3,000 employees. That's a pretty good outcome!
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#163Future will tell, whether Loom becomes enshittified, like basically everything else Atlassian touches or produced. Lets see how much usability will be impacted by putting it behind attrocious Atlassian logins and adding new unwanted features and integrations to it.
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#164I 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.
That's fine. Your options would have only been worth
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Millions of dollars.
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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.
I think the concern is more that they have such a small moat. Their product seems too easy to copy. But given that they are first to market, did a very a good job with what they offer and have acquired a lot of customers, that is all worth a lot of money. Is "a lot" $1B? Hard to say.
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#166At some point, companies become big enough that innovation is a risk (Innovater's dilemma). Atlassian is likely at this stage. Ofcourse, loom's tech is nothing impressive, one could argue that only a small segment of enterprise Loom customers would be willing to convert to Atlassian ecosystem. Nonetheless, the show must go on and Atlassian has to choose action instead of inaction to please the stock market. Good exit for loom though!
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#167Glad for the founders, but I cannot help but think this is such an overpriced acquisition for a glorified screen capture tool and ecosystem. Now you can attach videos to jira tickets, seems a bit overkill.
Waiting for a future, where you cannot simply look at a ticket, but have to skip through a video over and over again, just like with voice messages that people send on messengers. Instead of having to think about clear writing in tickets, one has a vague not well defined speech in a video. Then maybe they will add automatic transcription and again people will think "Now it's all fine!", which of course it won't be.
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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.
They're not necessarily buying it just for the tech; I have no doubt that Atlassian could build their own version of Loom. I'd guess that a big part of it is customer acquisition and then raising prices or ramping customers to other Atlassian products.
I have a lot of doubt Atlassian can build anything in a reasonable timeframe. CLOUD-6999.
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#169Future will tell, whether Loom becomes enshittified, like basically everything else Atlassian touches or produced. Lets see how much usability will be impacted by putting it behind attrocious Atlassian logins and adding new unwanted features and integrations to it.
It's almost a guarantee in SaaS. Look at Salesforce with Heroku, Tableau and Slack.
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#170This is a bummer. I really liked Loom. I was surprised to find some really neat video tools now by Prezi. Who else is doing good stuff around quick async collaboration?
Doist Inc. with Twist ( https://twist.com ). A sane replacement for slack that focus on making your life easier, and get actual job done by levering the concept of "threads" to make them first-class citizens that bridge the gap between instant chat where direct communication is needed and task manager where you need to declare a discussion to be open or closed. They side with the "Deep Work" philoshopy, and encourage…
Twist is much nicer than Slack in my opinion. The signal to noise ratio tends to be much better, and I find myself distracted by it far less because information I need is much easier to find when I need it.