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Hi kinduff, thanks for your feedback!

1. Yeah, I also noticed it's easier to explain the product using a video demo. I will add a recorded demo to the landing page! https://github.com/MarconLP/snapify/issues/17

2. The big red button in the hero section?

3. My goal is for users who are searching for something like "loom alternative" end up finding snapify. This also couples with 1.

4. Thanks for reporting that, fixed in https://github.com/MarconLP/snapify/issues/16

5. That's correct, initially I wanted something like what cal.com has on their pricing page: https://cal.com/pricing, but in the end that's just a minor thing.

6. Early in the checkout process, the landing page, or the pricing page? It's currently only mentioned in the FAQ on the pricing page.

7. Are you talking about the "Record a video" button? Recording a quick video and saving it locally does not require an account, but it's required when uploading to the cloud.


Thanks! I took a look at stream.new which is surprisingly similar. And yes, I am uploading and serving the raw MediaRecorder output, without any transcoding.

Did you by any chance try to view the demo using Safari? https://github.com/MarconLP/snapify/issues/12


Haha, yeah I can assure you that's not the Loom I meant.


I actually spoke with Peer Richelsen (CEO @ Cal.com) and he asked me the same question. Also mentioning that open-source is only beneficial when selling to enterprise companies, just like PostHog or Activepieces is planning/doing.

I was thinking about why someone would choose Snapify over Loom, being open-source would be one argument. But if those people are willing to pay is another question...


I've kind of wondered what the value proposition is of Loom as a business. On mac I get native screen recording and can just toss the video straight into any chat app or any video hosting platform. If you want to build a video hosting platform though, that's a different level of commitment.


What kind of chat app or video hosting platform did you use?

I've often encountered errors like: "You file is too powerful" - Discord, when trying to share my recording.


No specific errors come to mind for me, only in some cases files that are too large according to whatever the subscription is, or maaybe encoding on their end. Jira, Slack, Google chat, not sure about teams.


A question worth getting an answer for…


Hey there! After realizing that there is no open-source tool to quickly record your screen and get a sharable link, similar to loom, I built Snapify.

Recordings will look like this: https://snapify.it/share/clk3mpgnu0003mj0f042964wg

We’d love to hear HN’s thoughts on what we’re building! Thanks!

Any tips on how to sell this as I am struggling to get my first customer. Is it valuable to you and could you see your team using it?

I am also open for freelance work!

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Pasting images into the description is something I plan on doing! A problem there would be stoage costs. (a solution would be a google drive integration)

what do you mean by pasting comments into the task description?


Sorry I meant pasting images in description and in comments. Glad this is on your list!


Awesome! could you add me on linkedIn? https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-hof/


Could you open the Devtools and check the exact error?

I tried to signup with test@test.test with threw an error but test@test.net worked!


Yes, that was it. I had a non-common TLD in the email domain. com/net/org are no problem but it seems that many country TLDs and generic TLDs are not working. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction but can I suggest that you tweak the email validation algo, so that it allows basically anything as TLD. Otherwise you'll always end up missing some new or more exotic TLDs.

While you're at it, please also make sure you support "plus addressing", and let people change their email in the profile settings without having to email you...

Email address validation is not easy, you'd be surprised what weird things can be in valid email addresses ;-)

I'm now going to check it out in more detail.

Thanks for sharing this - and happy birthday from me as well.


Thank you!

I didn't notice email validation was such a huge problem. I created an issue: https://github.com/Tablane/tablane/issues/17


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