Anyone have a good alternative to loom? It’s honestly a great tool but I foresee the 20 free videos going away with this eventually
I switched to scre.io
Atlassian Acquires Loom
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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom
#202Anyone have a good alternative to loom? It’s honestly a great tool but I foresee the 20 free videos going away with this eventually
You can try out Jumpshare (https://jumpshare.com). We are seeing many people move to our platform from Loom. I am the founder so feel free to ask anything.
Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom
#203Glad 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.
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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.
Click button, record video, paste link into slack/github vs click button, record video, figure out what to do with the useless huge file; also annotations and whatever ai they managed to put in there to summarize the transcript
Huh? Click button, record video, "file" appears in the bottom corner of the screen, drag that into Slack or the Github editor, done. I would be worried about the links expiring, is Loom really hosting arbitrary unlimited sized video content forever for $12/mo? Damn, it's a good thing they got bought.
Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom
#205Anyone have a good alternative to loom? It’s honestly a great tool but I foresee the 20 free videos going away with this eventually
Zappy from Zapier is free: https://zapier.com/zappy
Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom
#206I 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?
Because I don't want to be deluged with marketing emails after signing up for yet another SaaS.
Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom
#207This make perfect sense. Atlassian is cornering the market of "features nobody ask for but make for good sales pitch to clueless managers".
I don’t use it but I have a family member who uses it extensively and has a love-hate relationship with it (perfect for it to be owned by Atlassian). It’s a great tool _when it works_ and they’ve told me they would switch in an instant if there was something better. I guess it crashes and loses data for them semi-regularly, sometimes they have to contact support to find something the web/app lost.
Personally I use, and love, CleanShotX but I don’t need to record my face and I’m not even sure if you can draw on the videos you create like you can in Loom. I use it mostly for annotating pictures. And before “macOS has this built in”, yes they do and what they provide is way better than nothing but it doesn’t hold a candle to CleanShotX. It’s way clunkier and hard to make edits once you’ve added something to the screenshot, CleanShotX is a breeze and being able to record video as a gif is awesome for bug tickets or documentation.
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> 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?
Where I’ve worked Game Mode was disabled by GPO in enterprise environments.
Disabling a built-in, non-networked feature and then replacing it with a cloud-linked, self-updating 3rd-party one doesn't seem like it would improve security.
Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom
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That's fine. Your options would have only been worth Checks notes Millions of dollars.
Nope. Loom was last valued at $1.5 billion in 2021, so with this acquisition a lot of people's options undoubtedly got totally wiped out due to liquidation preferences.
This comment misunderstands how liq pref works. Liq pref is about the amount of money invested ($175M), not about the valuation. At a $975M exit and a par-for-the-course liq pref of 1.0, it is very likely that all shareholders will have made money on the exit.
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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!
Well, it’s relevant: Atlassian launched a paid issue tracker in 2003 when the open-source Mantis was all the rage.
There is always room for a smooth paid service compared to the rough free one. Android and Linux vs twice-more-expensive Apple.