Thanks for building this! Making this my default for demos.
Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
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#22How do you quantify “lightweight”? This is used in a couple places, but without additional information it’s essentially meaningless.
I’m starting to think that this is a red flag when looking at a project when there’s no further information. It’s marketing-speak masquerading as a technical attribute, but without additional information could just be 100% incorrect. It’s also overly-generic… depending on the intent of the author, lightweight could mean CPU-efficient, small binary, feature-light, and so on, but when not qualified further it seems to be implicitly all of these and more, but most likely that’s not accurate.
My marketing pet-peeve aside, this looks nice and I will be trying it out. :) Congrats on your HN launch!
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#23How does it compare to using either of the following on macOS - OBS - The built in screen recording functionality in macOS itself - ffmpeg (see http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop for details on doing screen capture with it)
Loom is software that, in one click, overlays your face in a bubble as you can narrate your screen recording, uploads it as it's recording, and when you press stop it copies a link to your clipboard you can share immediately with whoever you are showing. It's a very polished and complete experience. OBS is for streamers. It could be set up in a similar way if you already have a twitch channel hooked into it. It won't…
macOS does have overlay functionality, it’s called presenter mode or something like that. Look for it in the green camera icon that shows up in the menu bar when you’re sharing your screen. It puts your face in a bubble overlayed on top of whatever you’re sharing, as you said. You’re right it doesn’t have upload though.
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#24Reasons I use Loom:
- Social features, users can comment & engage with my video to provide feedback
- Analytics, I get notifications when a user views a video (useful for demos/sales)
- Post-capture editing
- Set 1.X speed by default on videos (significantly reduces video length)
I don't find the capturing element of loom very good. Their chrome integration is pretty bad, seems to not handle clicking/changing pages when capturing a tab.
I recently started using Screen Studio and have really liked it.
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#25How do you quantify “lightweight”? This is used in a couple places, but without additional information it’s essentially meaningless. I’m starting to think that this is a red flag when looking at a project when there’s no further information. It’s marketing-speak masquerading as a technical attribute, but without additional information could just be 100% incorrect. It’s also overly-generic… depending on the intent of…
Good point. Will definitely take another look at the copy! I'm referring to it being a small bundle size to download :)
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#26Reasons I use Loom: - Social features, users can comment & engage with my video to provide feedback - Analytics, I get notifications when a user views a video (useful for demos/sales) - Post-capture editing - Set 1.X speed by default on videos (significantly reduces video length) I don't find the capturing element of loom very good. Their chrome integration is pretty bad, seems to not handle clicking/changing pages w…
Nice! Some good insights thank you.
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#27> open-source Loom alternative ...ScummVM[1]? [1]: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Loom
Your name will be cursed forever, son of cygna, loom child...BOBBIN THREADBARE!
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Loom is software that, in one click, overlays your face in a bubble as you can narrate your screen recording, uploads it as it's recording, and when you press stop it copies a link to your clipboard you can share immediately with whoever you are showing. It's a very polished and complete experience. OBS is for streamers. It could be set up in a similar way if you already have a twitch channel hooked into it. It won't…
macOS does have overlay functionality, it’s called presenter mode or something like that. Look for it in the green camera icon that shows up in the menu bar when you’re sharing your screen. It puts your face in a bubble overlayed on top of whatever you’re sharing, as you said. You’re right it doesn’t have upload though.
> You’re right it doesn’t have upload though.
That's surprising considering how Apple pushes iCloud integration...
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#29We built neetoRecord (https://neeto.com/neetoRecord) which is also a Loom alternative. Full disclosure - I'm part of the team that built neetoRecord.
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#30I'm curious about your plans around open-source, since you're using it as a selling point. There's been a lot of discussion about projects that start as open-source but then go to a more restrictive license once other companies start offering their own hosted versions. Is that a concern for you?
Do you plan to include any/all of the "pro" features on the roadmap in the open-source code?