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Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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If you have a mac, Cleanshot X I find is better across the board cleanshot.com

Such a clean app. Would probably use this if I haven’t mastered usage of Final Cut Pro.

yes it’s overkill, but it’s one less tool I have to learn.

I do like its ability to capture scrolling content. Would buy it just for that.

Also a plus: one time fee w/ optional upgrades. Definitely a plus

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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What’s the point in this acquisition? Why do enterprise projects need short form videos (aka Tik Tok)? Atlassian products are already dog shit slow. Add in the number of plugins that admins add over the years plus processing and hosting of videos … It’s going to be a hot mess. Would hate to be the person on the project that has diminished vision or completely blind. Screen readers don’t stand a chance against QA’s sh…

Text to speech models like Whisper are getting good enough that screen readers would stand a chance. The video itself is still more difficult to caption, but the things that would be shared in video are probably being shared with screenshots right now, so it would not be worse.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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If you have a mac, Cleanshot X I find is better across the board cleanshot.com

I wish they would have web/windows/linux version

Sharex does all that and more, it's there for windows. I don't know the wine story for it though. It's a .net app

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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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…

They raised $200M and last raised at $1.5B. Depending on liquidation preference clauses I don't think any employee outside the founders will make much from this sale.

Wow - you are wrong.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> My immediate reaction was that value-wise it was a joke, how can they be worth $1 billion? It's probably way more about the in to the large install base of users to start pushing other Atlassian suite products on. "Hey there happy Atlassian (formarly Loom) customer, since you're now in our ecosystem where products go to die, may we interest you in a Jira or a Confluence? They come with a complementary week of conse…

Don't forget forcing everyone to their SaaS offering only to be shown not to have a validated disaster recovery plan that resulted in almost 2 weeks (4/5-4/17) of consecutive downtime for many customers. Cherry on top was the 57 customers they screwed up the backup restore for and brought back older data. By the time they realized it they had to work with the customers to merge the newer backups with the changes they'd made since the initial restore.
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