Eric Willis

Loom - Seamless screen, mic, and camera recording for Chrome

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Shahed Khan
Hey Product Hunt! Great to be back on here. Big ups to @erictwillis for hunting us πŸ™Œ Openvid is a the easiest way for anyone to quickly record your screen, mic, and (optionally!) front-facing camera on any URL. Want to easily QA your new mock ups? Give feedback to a friend on their site? Create a quick tutorial for your product? Openvid let’s you do that for free without having to worry about video storage, upload time, or recording time limits. YUUGE shout out to the rest of the team behind this @yoyo_thomas & @vhmth ⚑
Daniel Singer
Bryan Weis
@_shahedk @yoyo_thomas @vhmth Congrats on the launch! I'm a huge fan of the product and can't wait to see what use cases new users come up with!
Shahed Khan
@bryan_weis @danielsing3r thank you gents! πŸ™
Vinay Hiremath
@bryan_weis @_shahedk @yoyo_thomas thanks Bryan! Let me know if you have any feature requests you'd like to see make it out. You have my info. :-)
Rod Austin
Jack Smith
This looks legit. I've previously used the TechSmith Snagit extension to record screencasts; but this looks a lot better. Minimalistic, but with the functionality that I need. the ability to record a video and then quickly get a link to share it is really important here. With some other solutions I have to mess around uploading the video to my youtube account and wait for it to process etc.
Vinay Hiremath
@_jacksmith personal shout out to you Jack: https://www.opentest.co/share/4c...
Jack Smith
@vhmth thanks for the video Vinay, very thoughtful. - You guys have already shipped more cool stuff with limited resources than many startups with millions $ in funding, so I'm excited to see how this continues to evolve.
Nick Kwan
@_jacksmith @vhmth also a big TechSmith Snagit user. Def gonna test this out. Do you know any good seamless tools to record system audio + standard audio for calls? I've actually used Snagit for this as well and even gone through the headaches of Soundflower...
Daniel Foster
@nwkwan Hi Nick - thanks for using Snagit! In the latest couple versions of Snagit for Mac recording system audio is pretty seamless. No more dependency on Soundflower. We just released Snagit 4 last week, if you want to check it out. https://www.techsmith.com/snagit...
Vinay Hiremath
@fosteronomo @nwkwan looks cool Daniel! Let me know how that works for you Nick. Interested to hear your thoughts. That being said, we'll be working on doing full desktop recording since that is by far our most requested feature at this point. Keep up the good work Daniel - you and your team have built a great product.
Leonardo Branco
How can I delete my videos?
Dorian Kersch
@leovbranco I would also like to know how to delete the videos.
Shahed Khan
@dorian_kersch @leovbranco Hey there! Great question. The ability to delete/archive videos is high up on our list of features we'll be rolling out shortly. Expect it to be live real soon!
Leonardo Branco
JeremyCee
@_shahedk @dorian_kersch @leovbranco That's the winning #Lean mindset in action! Nice work team!
Shahed Khan
Vinay Hiremath
How's it going Product Hunt? I'm extremely excited to have you guys testing out what the Opentest team has been building for the past several months! If you guys have any technical or product issues, I will be up (and highly caffeinated) to help you out! Either comment here or reach me directly via Twitter (@vhmth) or email (vinay@opentest.co). If any fellow enginerds have technical questions - I'm here to answer them as well!
Nilay Khandelwal
@vhmth @opentest Hi Vinay, I really love the simplicity of using Openvid and it's minimalist design. Is there a way to stop audio from recording though? There's a video on/off button but none for audio that I can seem to find.
Nilay Khandelwal
@vhmth @opentest Ooh I like this video response style! :) Specifically at my work, we share internal testing videos between the QA and dev teams. Right now it involves using Jing to capture screen recordings and sharing it through Slack, etc. Since most of these recordings are in the work environment with an open space layout, it's generally preferable to make the recordings with no audio. This leads me to another request. It would be great if sharing the Openvid URLs in Slack would allow inline video playback. That's one of the biggest annoyances with Jing (even though it's just one click to open the share links in a browser window :) )
Vinay Hiremath
@nilayk @opentest I really love using our tool to add emotional context to support answers. :-) It's made this launch 100x easier! Proper Facebook OG tags are high on our priority list. I personally want Slack inline videos to work as well since our team practically lives on Slack. You will have your way soon Nilay!
Nilay Khandelwal
@vhmth @opentest Sounds like a good idea, I too shall try to add emotional contexts to support videos whenever possible. Best of luck with the next phases of development and congratulations on the product launch!
Justin Alva
@_shahedk @vhmth It would be awesome if there could be a pen, highlighter, eraser so I could point out or draw attention to specific things that may be easy to miss.
Vinay Hiremath
@kosmischemusik @_shahedk I have bumped this on the feature list. I personally cannot wait to implement this. :-)
Justin Alva
@vhmth @_shahedk Awesome! Perhaps you should open up your feature list for people to submit suggestions and upvote existing ones :D
Vinay Hiremath
@kosmischemusik @_shahedk that's an amazing suggestion! I've added that feature to the list of features we have. I like it a lot man. :-) @joethomas_x I believe you brought this idea up before. Sorry we did not listen to you.
Justin Alva
@vhmth @_shahedk Glad I could bring some validation for @joethomas_x's idea :D. I've seen a lot of suggestions when products get hunted here and definitely think providing the community/users with some means of (indirectly) directing the product might be a good idea.
Andrew Rasmussen
@kosmischemusik Public feature lists with voting capabilities is exactly what we offer over at Product Pains. You should post your suggestion here! https://productpains.com/product...
Ves
Awesome project! I've been looking for something like this for quite a long time. The use case I wanted it for is short demos of pull requests - eg. walk the other engineers through the feature that this PR covers. One additional thing that would also be great is export to gif... because gifs!!!
Vinay Hiremath
@vesln awesome use case! Created a quick response video. :-) https://www.opentest.co/share/76...
Ves
@vhmth haha awesome response! re gifs - yeah totally makes sense. this tool makes recording so easy that i just want to (obviously) use it for everything i need haha.
Ves
@vhmth gifs within certain size are inlined in slack, so great for reporting bugs etc, that's the use case
Vinay Hiremath
@vesln dude awesome! I'm happy that it's useful for you. Honestly, this tool aligns closely with a belief that I have that people should give more value than they take. So saying that has completely made my day.
Octoberspring
This is very handy. I think you want to move quickly to mobile with this, for people to conveniently showcase their mobile apps.
Joe Thomas
@armi2n We are on the same page Armin. Mobile is in the crosshairs for us. We'll make sure the ProductHunt community knows when we have that ready 🀘
Svenn-Petter Mæhle
Nice! Would be even better if you could livestream and record at the same time (so your team can follow usertests live)
Vinay Hiremath
@svennpetter we 100% plan on doing this! Because of how our technology is built, this should actually be very doable within a couple weeks of work. Out of curiosity, how often do you see the need for this use case personally within your org?
Joe Thomas
@svennpetter Editing because Vinay beat me to it :)
Vinay Hiremath
Svenn-Petter Mæhle
@joethomas_x nice! Yea I've tried using hangouts/appear.in in the past while recording with Lookback, but have sometimes found that it glitches when both apps try to use the camera, mic and screens feeds. Will try it with Openvid for next tests!
Vinay Hiremath
@svennpetter @joethomas_x awesome! Please do let me know how it goes. I have not tested this use case myself, but have written it down to make sure I do it over the weekend.
Jose Luis
@_shahedk @erictwillis @yoyo_thomas @vhmth This is just great! Any shortcut to embed the video on a website without having to donwload, upload to YouTube and then embed from there?
Shahed Khan
@jose3188_tw @erictwillis @yoyo_thomas @vhmth Greeeaat question! Embeddable video's is actually something I added to our roadmap just a few days ago. Expect it to be available very soon! :)
Jose Luis
@_shahedk @erictwillis @yoyo_thomas @vhmth Thanks. That would be very helpful indeed!
Vinay Hiremath
@jose3188_tw @_shahedk @erictwillis @yoyo_thomas hey Jose! Out of curiosity, do you have an idea of the sites you mainly want to embed on?
Jose Luis
@vhmth @_shahedk @erictwillis @yoyo_thomas @webtech Hi Vinay! I am actually creating tutorials for www.know.ee, the online business cards tool I created (soon to be posted here). It is very visual and I need to show how to do things instead of explaining, so I will be embedding the videos directly in the website and also in the blog! It will come very handy to me!
Vinay Hiremath
@jose3188_tw @_shahedk @erictwillis @yoyo_thomas @webtech ah cool! Yeah I can definitely see that being the case. I have added that to the near-term roadmap. If you wouldn't mind, could you email me at vinay@opentest.co? That way I can make sure that that is ready for you in a decent amount of time lining up with your launch.
Bent Stamnes
Pretty cool stuff, though for web testing I find I'm usually involved with people who use Internet Explorer (SHOCKER, RIGHT?!), so this won't help me much there unfortunately. :)
Vinay Hiremath
@gloom303 hey Bent! I absolutely feel you on this one! I've created a quick response video for you. Basically, I think the strides MSFT has been making with Edge and Chakra are actually awesome and would love to be able to support that for you! https://www.opentest.co/share/8c...
Bent Stamnes
@vhmth Full screen/desktop recording (easily accessible, that's the core here -- we're dealing with non-technical users after all) would be a suitable workaround. Not sure if that would be less or more hassle for non-tech users than a IE addon. Possibly less, since they tend to live in environments with strict security settings as well.
Vinay Hiremath
@gloom303 hmm that's always tricky. I think I agree with you that an IE addon would be great, but I'm almost wondering if, because the add-on ecosystem isn't quite as accepted yet on IE, people would think that it could be malicious. As we discuss this, I have bumped up full desktop recording from the extension again in our list. I think it's important.
Bent Stamnes
@vhmth Yeah, that was my point actually, sorry if I was unclear: creating an add-on is probably not the best path, exactly for this reason. :)
Vinay Hiremath
@gloom303 haha I see now that I'm re-reading. Definitely my slip-up. Am running on nothing but pure caffeine at this point. :-) Not to self - desktop screen recording: something people want. Do it. :-)
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