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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative by brailsafe on Monday May 13, 2024 @04:29AM (#40340977)
It may not have upload, but in any worthwhile collaboration solution you can literally just drag your screen recording into the rich text area of a comment and have it show up, maybe after converting it to a neutral codec. I did this in my last job with Jira, GitHub, and Slack, ez
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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative by dcow on Monday May 13, 2024 @11:03AM (#40344156)
Of course you can do this. Loom does the conversion and compression for you automatically so you have an instantly sharable video. Saves me time. That’s the point.
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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative by brailsafe on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:12PM (#40348491)
Yep, that's obviously where the value would be, but the basics have been default for quite some time unless you're using a linux or windows workstation
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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative by dcow on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:02PM (#40349026)
the system video capture on macOS outputs a .mov not an mp4.
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