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Coming from a deep, shameful corner of ignorance, but what's special about recording a screen and sharing it via the comms tool of choice (IM, Slack, Signal, e-
by eptcyka 3y ago
Coming from a deep, shameful corner of ignorance, but what's special about recording a screen and sharing it via the comms tool of choice (IM, Slack, Signal, e-mail)?
I do love the idea of sharing a screen recording of features though.
- swivelmaster 3y agoIt’s well-executed and convenient. That’s worth a lot.
- hannes0 3y agoThis discussion reminds me of when Dropbox was at ShowHN and someone was commenting on how this could be done with FTP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- scott_w 3y agoTo be fair, the person asking the question genuinely is interested in the answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37858345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37858345
- eastbound 3y agoI still haven’t purchased Dropbox. When the choice came up, it seemed important for our backups not to be made in USA. So, indeed, a very cool replacement was SSH. I still don’t know anyone who didn’t leave Dropbox after they jacked up the prices. A USB key is much cheaper (and reliable, at the rate at which Dropbox nukes accounts that they deem not compliant with whatever policy).
- solardev 3y agoMost people I know just went with their cloud provider's sync solution once everyone added one (GDrive, iCloud, Amazon photos, OneDrive, Creative Cloud, etc.) Can't remember the last time I saw a USB key in use anymore. The cloud stuff is convenient, but it quickly became a commoditu Dropbox is still better in some small ways (like delta syncs) but it wasn't enough I guess.
- mikeyouse 3y agoIt's amusing to see "but it wasn't enough I guess" in relation to a profitable $10 billion company with 3,000 employees. That's a pretty good outcome!
- solardev 3y agoTrue! It's still a useful product, but the pressure to keep getting huge-r is always there I guess. I knew someone who worked there and they seemed pretty desperate for new initiatives (like the failed Paper). Most of their competitors have online storage as part of their product portfolio. I don't know of anything else major that Dropbox does...
- eastbound 3y agoWell, it’s relevant: Atlassian launched a paid issue tracker in 2003 when the open-source Mantis was all the rage. There is always room for a smooth paid service compared to the rough free one. Android and Linux vs twice-more-expensive Apple.
- ajkjk 3y ago> I still don’t know anyone who didn’t leave Dropbox after they jacked up the prices. Funny, I don't know anyone who did.
- antonjs 3y agoNo wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.[1] [1] https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026 https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026
- dmurray 3y agoSurely those are the qualities Atlassian will want to change as quickly as possible, though.
- cco 3y agoIt always destroys my laptop, MacBook Pro i5 from 2020. Desktop app, chrome extension, whatever, it absolutely chews up my CPU.
- CharlieDigital 3y agoThey're not necessarily buying it just for the tech; I have no doubt that Atlassian could build their own version of Loom. I'd guess that a big part of it is customer acquisition and then raising prices or ramping customers to other Atlassian products.
- eptcyka 3y agoNo, I mean, desktop and mobile screen recording, in my opinion, seems to be simple enough even for laymen. I could also be convinced otherwise :)
- CharlieDigital 3y agoAs others have pointed out, it's not the recording that's the hard part per se; more so the entire workflow from hitting firing up the recording tool to getting the final recording -- possibly edited -- into the cloud for sharing in some seamless flow. Lots of ancillary stuff involved. I know a team that went down this route and built a competing tool and the hardest part was working out the streaming upload and storage. Then you layer on things like permissions, lifecycle management, etc.
- politelemon 3y agoAlso recently Atlassian released a Whiteboard (read Miro/infinite canvas) feature in Confluence cloud, so this could become another tool in the set that they release to keep people collaborating on their platform and not heading elsewhere.
- groestl 3y agoI have a lot of doubt Atlassian can build anything in a reasonable timeframe. CLOUD-6999.
- mvdtnz 3y agoOh that's nothing. Check out CONFSERVER-5926. Create April 2006 and finally closed with resolution Duplicate(???) in 2019.
- throwanem 3y agoLoom makes it very easy to voice over and annotate a recording, with both individually editable in a way raw screen recordings don't support, and to share the result via a link. It's not (yet?) heavily used among engs where I am, but we love it anyway for massively shortening the feedback loop with designers who can drop a 30-second demo of some prototype UI at the head of a Slack thread and asynchronously receive the kind of nuanced feedback that'd usually need to start off with a (necessarily synchronous) huddle.
- eptcyka 3y agoCool, this is the answer I was looking for. Thank you so much!
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoTheir video summarization and speed-ups are killer features.
- jzelinskie 3y agoI think lots of people haven't realized that video clips like Loom are actually built into Slack. The button that looks like a video camera below the input text box does it. It's not a full replacement, but it's the one you already have.
- gumby 3y agoI had never even noticed that button before. thanks.
- BossingAround 3y agoSlack's huddle feature is actually so nice. We use it more often than the dedicated MS Teams our org pays for (sadly).
- killingtime74 3y agoWe used it for a bit then stopped after discovering the screen share resolution is super low