Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by bengoa » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 7:14 PM UTC

Just something I put together quickly:

https://webcast.browserprotect.me/

I made this in one day, now I'm wondering if It's interesting enough to make it a real product (Add new features like setting the size, zoom, annotations, fix bugs, export, voice-over, etc..)

Here is an example screencast I just did: https://webcast.browserprotect.me/view/2764aa94dcd855959819fd91881f0882baa61a0e-44646

Do you consider this a viable product? I'm thinking about offering it for free and then add some premium features.

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

#2

Post by brianjking » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 7:45 PM UTC

Received an error when trying to POST -- is this not supported yet?

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by bengoa » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

brianjking wrote: post #2

Received an error when trying to POST -- is this not supported yet?

It should be supported, but it's not thoughtfully tested yet, at this point it's just an experiment :)

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by shovel » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 8:16 PM UTC

Definitely a sweet idea and I can see some great use cases for onboarding new users to a site by demoing functionality. Really like how it just gets to work and outputs the vid without making me make any decisions. I'd love to see a gif output (maybe that could be one of your premium features :)

EDIT: Just cross-posted to PH. http://www.producthunt.com/posts/websitecast

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by X-combinator » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 8:22 PM UTC

Clickable links:

[1] https://webcast.browserprotect.me/

[2] https://webcast.browserprotect.me/view/2764aa94dcd855959819f...

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by BorisMelnik » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 8:26 PM UTC

if you do, just make sure to grandfather all of us in with beta accounts :)

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by MarcScott » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 8:29 PM UTC

I think this is a great idea. Could definitely see it being used in educational institutions where Chromebooks are popular.

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by atom-morgan » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 8:43 PM UTC

I've been wanting something like this to exist - specifically for weird browser compatibility issues or for submitting bugs. There's been a few times where I've encountered a bug, sent a message about it to someone on Twitter, and wished I could send a quick Snapchat/Vine of the issue to them. This would be much better than numerous screenshots. It shows exactly how I produced the bug.

This, hopefully, could allow me to do just that.

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by grimmdude » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 8:47 PM UTC

Cool idea!

Re: Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

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Post by aembleton » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 8:54 PM UTC

I like it.

Looking at my logs, you are using Firefox in Windows 7. Is it just capturing screenshots of the browser, or did you write a plugin?