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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by ajkjk »

eastbound wrote: post #141
hannes0 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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).

> I still don’t know anyone who didn’t leave Dropbox after they jacked up the prices.

Funny, I don't know anyone who did.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by paxys »

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.

Why even apply to a company if you don't want to use their product?

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by rmbyrro »

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.

This is news to me

I don't recall having the need to use video to express anything that comes to code.

Perhaps user interface stuff, yes. But code? Can't remember...

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by paxys »

I like Loom, but once Slack launched clips and huddles there was really no reason to continue using it (nearly 100% of our usage was recording a video clip and posting it to Slack). Wonder what Atlassian has in store for the product.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by zoogeny »

paxys wrote: post #182
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.

Why even apply to a company if you don't want to use their product?

I thought (and still think) their product is a great idea.

Some people here seem to think my objection was being asked to use the product. It was actually the content of the message I was asked to send that bothered me. It wasn't "explain how your experience would be useful in this role", or "explain your feelings on the technical aspects of this product". It was something closer to "show me how excited you are to work here".

I don't know why but at the time it felt like being asked to grovel. My stupid pride, I guess.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by dimgl »

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.

This is hysterical. Looks like the CEO was spot-on.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by dbish »

toddmorey wrote: post #92

This 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?

We just started a beta of a product that is a drop in loom replacement and “smarter” in that we completely index not just what you said but what you showed on screen (OCR) and what you did (captured actions) to make everything easier to find, easier to get quick answers from (built in chat assistant who “watched” the video already) and auto generate things like docs out of it. Looking for beta users and feedback on feature requests, check out a post about it here: https://www.augmend.com/blogiverse/augshare-0-2 or drop me a note diamond@augmend.com

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by swalling »

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…

Loom does not have a moat, which is why they were purchased by a platform that does have one.

It’s a very well-done feature, but there are increasingly other platforms (Slack, Dropbox) that offer features 80% as good for free.

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