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Re:Show HN: Got rejected by Hotjar, decided to build my own by wingerlang on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:22AM (#28874908)
I've recently been working on screen recordings for iOS (it says app on the home page so I assume you support this too). Do you mind giving a quick overview on how you solved it?

- Are you using pixel buffers manually?

- I assume you can not use ReplayKit since it requires user interaction?

- How do you solve user private information? I know that other dedicated recording tools HAD issues with this.

I'm no longer working on my recording tool, but I'm very curious.

Re:Show HN: Got rejected by Hotjar, decided to build my own by Chris86 on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:17AM (#28875226)
Hi wingerlang, sorry about that, it should have said web app on the homepage - I've updated it now! I've tried to say web app all the time in the app but forgot on the homepage, where it's arguably most important :(

Mobile session capture is technically possible using the approach we're using i.e. not screen recording but just tracking events and DOM changes and they rebuilding that. We looked into it but it was out of scope for now as we're just a two person team. Fullstory already solve for mobile, as do a few other competitors, perhaps you can find out a little from googling their approach?

In terms of privacy, for the web we can mask form inputs by default, and otherwise you can just add tags to elements you don't want to track and then the script ignores them client-side.

Re:Show HN: Got rejected by Hotjar, decided to build my own by wingerlang on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:50AM (#28875412)
Oh I see, no worries. And I think it's good to update to be more specific.
Re:Show HN: Got rejected by Hotjar, decided to build my own by Chris86 on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:17AM (#28875549)
yes, it says web app now :)