Congrats on the launch! It looks quite slick and something I could see myself using. I'm curious, what do the costs of operation and margins look like for a service like this?
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#42If there’s one way to turn off a good portion of people from using your project, it’s by locking down the community into a discord.
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ah sorry to hear that! where would you prefer it?
Matrix for IM, discourse for longer discussions, … Plenty of open source alternatives. Can even bridge between matrix channels and discord
Matrix lost, or never even won, outside some unusually neckbeard-y communities. I gotta admit I kinda enjoyed watching someone try to make normies use it. Impossible. To be fair, discord is hard. But Matrix was really impossible.
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#44If there’s one way to turn off a good portion of people from using your project, it’s by locking down the community into a discord.
What’s wrong with discord? I’m on several servers for open source projects and it’s pretty good.
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ah sorry to hear that! where would you prefer it?
Matrix for IM, discourse for longer discussions, … Plenty of open source alternatives. Can even bridge between matrix channels and discord
I wish an open standard won, but the reality is that in 2024 even in open source, it’s going to be easier to grow a Discord community than a Matrix one because more people habitually use Discord.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#46Interestingly ycombinator passed on Cap due to them not having a co-founder: https://x.com/richiemcilroy/status/1788996498081951848?s=46
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
#47If there’s one way to turn off a good portion of people from using your project, it’s by locking down the community into a discord.
On the contrary everybody is on discord and not being on it will turn off the vast majority of people cause I wont open matrix just for your software.
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#48How 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 :)
Note that hackernews is notoriously anti “marketing speech”. I don’t think there’s anything bad with elaborating but lightweight/snappy/slim is pretty much what’s important, given that there’s so much slow bloatware out there. Not all users are technical, and eg throwing out benchmarks on the front page would be complete mumbo jumbo to many users.
That said, I also think the best way to communicate the intended vibe is also through screenshots (which you already have) and design. Looks awesome.
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#49If there’s one way to turn off a good portion of people from using your project, it’s by locking down the community into a discord.
I wish you were right but you aren't.
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This is like the classic Dropbox comment. It’s about ease of use and the fewest steps.
Yeah, but not quite. I’m not dismissing their product. Just wondering if it would be worth running a Cap server when I already have tools to make screen recordings, and I already have a PeerTube instance where I can host videos. And actually now I am also wondering if Cap could be integrated with PeerTube so you could have which ever things Cap brings to the table aside from video hosting and have it either upload to…
If you already have a working workflow, this is probably overcomplicating things.
I would imagine the overlap of people who would use peertube and Cap is 0.