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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by xctr94 »

Spivak wrote: post #159
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.

macOS doesn’t record video well at all. QuickTime is the vehicle for it, often crashing, or not stopping the recording. It’s been like that for years. I don’t use Loom, but I’d never ever recommend trying to record your screen on macOS using QT.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by jimmySixDOF »

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 had to uninstall the desktop app it was uploading 6MB chunks at random times for no reason I could figure out. I hope this is an opportunity to improve their local software but not holding my breath lol the Atlassian Godzilla.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by paradox460 »

butlike wrote: post #27
TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #21

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Good grief. If the age of YouTube has taught us anything, it's that creating good video of something takes a lot more skill than writing something decent about something. Trying to find the relevant issue in a bunch of unrelated info, within a long writeup, which a user necessarily edits, at least a little, by the nature of writing something out? Pretty easy. Trying to find it in a rambling, 15-minute video? Welp! Go…

The best thing about video is it tethers me to the speed of the content the rambling, 15-minute video content creator mandated; not the speed I can peruse an article. Also the first person to invent Ctrl+F for video will be a billionaire.

YouTube has transcripts of varying quality, and tools like kagi's universal summarizer can handle videos as well

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by organsnyder »

bentcorner wrote: post #349
organsnyder wrote: post #63

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Ask me about it!

So, tell me about LOOM

You mean the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lucasfilm's™ Brian Moriarty™?

Why, it's an extraordinary adventure with an interface of magic, stunning, high-resolution, 3D landscapes, sophisticated score and musical effects. Not to mention the detailed animation and special effects, elegant point 'n' click control of characters, objects, and magic spells.

Beat the rush! Go out and buy Loom™ today!

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by gangstead »

neilv wrote: post #331
gangstead wrote: post #114

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The startup system is pretty rigged against accidentally making anyone rich who is a mere employee. That money is for the investors, not the working class. The days of the office assistant making millions on stock are long gone. There's options with huge tax implications, long vesting periods, the investors get preferred stock, they get guaranteed multiples, if there's a down round there's a carve-out that you won't…

If I want to found a VC-funded startup for which a successful exit is much more fair to the employees, how do I do that? Will the investors insist that it all come out of the founders' percentage of the pie, or can I argue that the better-incentived employees mean a bigger and more likely pie, so VC terms shoudl be less grabby? Will VCs react negatively to "being soft on" employees, even if it all comes out of founde…

I don't think VC money cares whether you are soft on the employees. They are there to buy as big a slice of a small pie before it gets big. Anything you keep for yourself or give to your employees is pie that could be theirs. If they show up and you've already promised half the pie away they'll pay less for what's left, or you won't be one of 100 slices in their pie portfolio. Maybe you can convince them the motivated employees will lead to more growth, but it's not the type of thing they are normally swayed by.

I think the end result is that it's probably not possible to pay employees with meaningful equity anymore so you'll have to go back to paying them the old fashioned way with money. I know I'm no longer willing to take RSU lotto tickets and a pay cut to work at a startup.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by j45 »

jedberg wrote: post #337
j45 wrote: post #307

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As one of jira’s bigger brain farts, it seems it’s was recreated and continued in a new ticket. Open: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-1369 Closed: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-1369 The original JRA-1369 was opened in 2003. Addressed a little in 2019, but not the digests to solve it all. Odd since plug-ins have to. closing this is one way to improve optics I guess. Ps, I don’t hate Jira. Wasn’t a h…

Ah you're right, it was just reopened. > Their worst sin remains how many people are subjected to an out of the box install compared to one that is setup to your processes. Tweaking it makes such a difference. This is true, I hated out of the box Jira, and I tolerated it after I tweaked it for our org. Honestly, it probably shouldn't even work out of the box. It should just start with a single ticket that describes h…

Totally agree. I was on the out of the box side for too long.

It is a little too complicated to setup in the beginning but it has more first principles to learn before combining maybe due to the complexity it can handle.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by j45 »

sebastiennight wrote: post #322
j45 wrote: post #68

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My experience has been contrary to expecting developers to create videos (which is a good idea too). This approach of video first, and video tickets are prioritized has been my only approach for almost 15 years. It started with Jing from Techsmith that had one key feature like loom - record and auto upload to the cloud and put the URL into your clipboard ready to paste into an email. It’s surprising use of video in t…

Jing was such a brilliant simple concept. For years I used to make it mandatory for my team to install it. I can't fathom how Techsmith couldn't make that work (although maybe it was just too competitive with Camtasia)... Loom is basically the same thing but limited to a Chrome extension? Or am I missing something?

Jing is similar but loom does a lot more post processing and continues the expansion of the idea.

I used to recommend to clients to pre-install the free Jing on all of their pcs, was awesome.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by j45 »

blairbeckwith wrote: post #94
j45 wrote: post #91

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Associated? See the thing with something like loom is it just works. I used mono snap for a while for example. Native apps to capture are great but they seem to get acquired.

I'm not sure what your point is. Lots of apps, native or not, get acquired. What are we talking about here?

We are talking about why you are comparing an acquisition for 975M to a license purchase of $19?
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