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I'd love your…",{"value":64,"source":51,"evidence":65},"Free for now; maker intends to charge later",[66,69],{"id":67,"by":10,"text":68},"43821391","Thank you! If you're willing to provide feedback over time, I'll implement features you're looking for if you have legit use cases for this tool and are willing to use it. I'll…",{"id":70,"by":10,"text":71},"43823192","I do want to charge but if you have valid use cases and will function as a beta-tester I would work out free service technically forever. I am open to discussions about this. I'm…",{"value":73,"source":51,"evidence":74},"Maker wants to build screen recording software for people as a full-time business",[75,78],{"id":76,"by":10,"text":77},"43823121","I tried first using a browser extension and I couldn't get traction, thus making it completely sign-up free and available right from the homepage. However, I'd eventually like to…",{"id":79,"by":10,"text":80},"43817545","Thank you pratio! I quit my job and this is my full time gig now. I've got about three years of runway, so if I can't get it to PMF soon--then yes and I'll move on to something…",[82,88,94,98],{"value":83,"source":51,"evidence":84},"AWS Lambda rendering",[85],{"id":86,"by":10,"text":87},"43822170","Thank you - It uses AWS Lambda. I started out using remotion, but I ran into some issues and just wanted control over it so I wrote my own rendering engine similar to remotion…",{"value":89,"source":51,"evidence":90},"Amazon S3 storage",[91],{"id":92,"by":10,"text":93},"43817412","Thanks! Hosting in the cloud lets me centrally manage assets and makes it easier to add interactive features like Arcade and Supademo, which require server-side components. 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Thanks dude.",{"value":124,"source":109,"evidence":125},"Congratulations on the launch",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"43816898","kilroy123","Congrats on the launch!",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"43818140","taherchhabra","congrats on the launch. I was just about looking for a tool like this.",[135,146,157,172],{"value":136,"source":109,"evidence":137},"Output quality and rendering artifacts",[138,142],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"43818524","sandos","I tried capturing a portrait mode monitor, and that video came out very weird: Only the upper right quadrant of the video had a gradient, with my portrait window in the middle....",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"43842866","the_gipsy","The output quality was quite bad for me. I'd love to be able to use some webapp for sporadic recordings, but I'll have to stick to OBS.",{"value":147,"source":109,"evidence":148},"Does not work on Firefox or Safari and not on mobile",[149,153],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"43816849","drpotato","Doesn't appear to work on Firefox or Safari — dialog closes immediately after opening.",{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"43816775","android521","Doesn’t seem to work on mobile",{"value":158,"source":109,"evidence":159},"Videos are stored remotely despite privacy concerns",[160,164,168],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"43818671","_pdp_","It is cool but I thought it was client-side only - it turns out the videos are exported and stored remote. Can you confirm?",{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"43817143","pentagrama","Seems cool! But for privacy reasons I prefer to do the recording locally and send the file myself. 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Just tested this out and it's great but some feedback: I couldn't successfully trim my recording. I could get into \"trim mode\" but couldn't figure out how to do it.…",{"id":207,"by":10,"text":208},"43823270","Also - I want to add speed up and slow down of clips",{"value":210,"source":109,"evidence":211},"Ability to download the raw MP4 file",[212],{"id":213,"by":214,"text":215},"43823064","TrapLord_Rhodo","I love the youtube series... raw, watching you build in the open is great. This would be a killer app to make youtube videos, but without the ability to download the video, you…",{"value":217,"source":109,"evidence":218},"Title cards and image insertion",[219,220],{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},{"id":221,"by":222,"text":223},"43818379","Oras","I’ve using screen studio since it was beta release. Making alternative is a start but if you want to be better, I would suggest adding what’s missing from screen studio. 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I've been using https:\u002F\u002Fsnapify.it\u002F, it's opensource but I haven't been able to selfhost it.",{"value":264,"source":109,"evidence":265},"gifcap.dev",[266],{"id":267,"by":268,"text":269},"43820291","maelito","Nice. https:\u002F\u002Fgifcap.dev is good also.",{"value":271,"source":109,"evidence":272},"ScreenRun",[273],{"id":274,"by":275,"text":276},"43820513","kisamoto","I have no connection but seeing as these conversations often discuss alternatives I'd like to mention https:\u002F\u002Fscreenrun.app\u002F. It's web based, offers plenty of features and can be…",{"comments":278,"answered":279,"key":280},29,9,[281,284,285],{"id":282,"text":283},"43817570","Right on! That is definitely something I am willing to explore over time! I know Basecamp has been experimenting with the Pay Once model with great success.",{"id":54,"text":55},{"id":286,"text":287},"43846786","Hey Jacob, great observation. 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