[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":331},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-3291861":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":83,"maker_in_thread":200,"shape":211,"grid":214,"attempts":293,"same_week":294,"maker_shows":44,"maker_hidden":323,"reader_version":324,"card":325},"3291861","BugCam","Add Video to Your Bug Reports","title","Show HN: BugCam: Add Video to Your Bug Reports","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.getbugcam.com","getbugcam.com","yarone",1322596174,2011,52,37,235,1097,22,"notable","dev_tools","bug reporting","desktop_app",[24,21,25,26,27],"bug video","video capture","bug tracker integration","screen recording","roasted",-0.237,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},4,5,0,9,18,{"idea":37,"pricing":39,"execution":40,"design":42},{"positive":38,"critical":38},2,{"positive":33,"critical":38},{"positive":33,"critical":41},3,{"positive":33,"critical":38},[44,44,33,44,33,33,41,33,32,44,33,41,33,41,33,44,33,33,33,44,33,44,33,41,33,33,44,32,33,32,33,33,44,33,41,33,32],1,"Today I'm launching my project BugCam. It all started four years ago when I sent an email to the folks at Fog Creek Software, asking them to add a video capture tool, just like their screenshot tool, into FogBugz.\n\nTheir response: that sounds awesome, why don't you build it!\n\nWell, here we are.  We've been in private beta for 3 months, have some happy users, and we're ready to release BugCam to the world today!\n\nBugCam makes it easy to create bug videos and share them via your favorite bug tracking tool (at this point, Bugzilla, FogBugz, Gemini, JIRA, Redmine, Mantis, and Trac. Additional inte",{"problem":47,"audience":53,"pricing":60,"motivation":68,"time_to_build":72,"stack":73,"openness":81,"stage":82,"team_size":81},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Describing bugs in text is slow; video shows the bug directly","maker",[51],{"id":52},"post",{"value":54,"source":49,"evidence":55},"Professional testers, developers and product managers",[56,57],{"id":52},{"id":58,"by":11,"text":59},"3292295","Hi there. Yes, given that it's a Windows app, it's not designed (at this point) for end users to submit bugs, but instead for professional testers, developers, and product…",{"value":61,"source":62,"evidence":63},"Priced per bug video creator; free to use for some tiers, per-creator pricing criticized","commenter",[64],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"3292271","rexreed","I was loving this until I saw the pricing and noticed that it's priced on number of bug video creators. Boo. I was hoping that this would be used by our customers (for customer…",{"value":69,"source":49,"evidence":70},"Founder asked FogBugz for video capture four years ago and decided to build it",[71],{"id":52},null,[74],{"value":75,"source":76,"evidence":77},"C#\u002F.NET","inferred",[78],{"id":79,"by":11,"text":80},"3292096","Thanks! Yes, it can be done with JAVA, but we weren't happy with the required UI compromises of a non-native app. I was sure we would be able to do this with Flash or…","unknown","launched",{"praise":84,"objections":111,"requests":145,"questions":162,"alternatives":177},[85,96],{"value":86,"source":62,"evidence":87},"Useful for showing unusual bugs and integrates with bug trackers",[88,92],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"3293491","jen_h","I think this is awesome, especially for those \"Hey, watch this cool thing I broke\" kind of bugs. And for all of those bugs that live in Mr.\u002FMs. CLOSED-CANNOT-REPRODUCE's…",{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"3293237","ctseng","Wow... this is really cool. I like how it integrates with bug trackers.",{"value":97,"source":62,"evidence":98},"Clean, nice product",[99,103,107],{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"3292012","henrytejera","BugCam is the perfect tool for software developers as well as testers. Truly awesome! Oscar Henry",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"3294375","HarveyKandola","Nicely done!",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"3292229","jonny_eh","Very cool. Small suggestion: Make the cursor turn into a hand (button:hover{cursor:pointer;}) when hovering over the buttons on the pricing page.",[112,127,141],{"value":113,"source":62,"evidence":114},"Windows only and requires a download install",[115,119,123],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"3292312","lsemel","setup.exe? That's not going to run on my Mac!",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"3292589","Timothee","You should then put a user-agent test so that you start the download only on Windows computers. I have no use for a .exe either.",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"3292116","maratd","I'm sure he means installing a native client on the OS. Using a tool like this internally is fine, but really, something like this shines in the hands of the end-user. A…",{"value":128,"source":62,"evidence":129},"Video is slower and harder to search than written repro steps",[130,134,138],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"3293328","pakeha","I used to attach video to bug reports occasionally. All the developers on my team hated it. They forced me to stop. They found it slower than scanning through text and didn't…",{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"3292804","InclinedPlane","Searchable. Indexable. Easily migrated across technology stacks. Compressable. Light-weight. Machine readable. All things that video is not. This is not the future of bug…",{"id":139,"by":136,"text":140},"3293101","Sure, quite useful. Let's say a tester has some fairly complicated steps to repro a particularly nasty bug. So complex that writing down the steps correctly would take perhaps a…",{"value":142,"source":62,"evidence":143},"Per-creator pricing unsuitable for customers",[144],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},[146,151,158],{"value":147,"source":62,"evidence":148},"Mac or cross-platform support",[149,150],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},{"value":152,"source":62,"evidence":153},"Remove the one-minute recording limit",[154],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"3295102","swatthatfly","Why is there a 1 minute limit for the video? I tried it and it just stopped recording after 1 minute.",{"value":159,"source":62,"evidence":160},"Browser-based version for end users",[161],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},[163,170],{"value":164,"source":62,"evidence":165},"How does it differ from browser-based ScreenR?",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"3292018","judofyr","What does this add over http:\u002F\u002Fscreenr.com\u002F (which works 100% in the browser on all platforms)?",{"value":171,"source":62,"evidence":172},"Why host the demo video on Vimeo?",[173],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"3292516","caillou","Why do you host your screencast on the landing page on Vimeo? It feels kind of wrong that a company that integrates video into web bug trackers needs to host their own video on a…",[178,186,193],{"value":179,"source":62,"evidence":180},"ScreenR",[181,182],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"3292022","rmoriz","I would prefer a multi-os, non-intrusive solution like http:\u002F\u002Fbusiness.screenr.com\u002F except for it's price for small startups which is enterprisey",{"value":187,"source":62,"evidence":188},"Jing",[189],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"3293694","MortenK","www.jingproject.com can also be used for this purpose. You'll capture a screenshot or video, click on a button and get a url back.",{"value":194,"source":62,"evidence":195},"Java-based screencast tools",[196],{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"3292019","teyc","Nicely done. I was looking at screencasting software and I saw a competitor of yours doing this too - recording problems for user support. Theirs used java, so there's nothing to…",{"comments":201,"answered":202,"key":203},17,6,[204,205,208],{"id":58,"text":59},{"id":206,"text":207},"3292840","Hmm... maybe not the future but useful part of the process? Like screenshots, only at 10fps and with audio!?",{"id":209,"text":210},"3292040","The key difference is that BugCam integrates directly with leading bug tracking tools. 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