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Hey thanks for stopping by and the kind words! When I saw your launch post a few weeks ago (months ago? time has become irrelevant) here on HN, my heart skipped

Hey thanks for stopping by and the kind words! When I saw your launch post a few weeks ago (months ago? time has become irrelevant) here on HN, my heart skipped a beat, I thought CodeMic was direct competition to CodeVideo - maybe they are, or maybe they are different enough to co-exist :) I anyway immediately dropped my email for the early access! For a brief moment, I looked into a sort of VS Code plugin for CodeVideo but I realized it would be tough with things like mouse and animating typing directly in VS Code (unless I did a complete fork like the Cursor path). But I wasn't quite ready to take all of that on. But yes, I think it's a huge latent space that hasn't been addressed anywhere in the market simply because you need to go half insane to take something on as complex as replayable state management for the IDE.

seansh 2y ago
I agree that it's a huge space and believe there is demand for better presentation of educational material for programming beyond algorithms that fits in a slide. I do think that our approaches are a little different and time will prove which is more effective, or perhaps both in their own ways. For example, CodeMic aims to replace books and blogs for discussions of large codebases and showing changes to code over time, but CodeVideo seems to enhance the experience of writing books and blogs (among other things) by ensuring correctness of the code for example. There's a lot you can do there with that which I never really thought about and is out of scope for CodeMic. If the format is open, perhaps CodeMic and CodeVideo can even import from each other. p.s. can't disagree about the insane part, but still a lot of fun ;)
- fullstackchris 2y ago
  > CodeMic aims to replace books and blogs for discussions of large codebases and showing changes to code over time This is huge and something I've pondered about how to do efficiently, because what if you could forward this essential context info to something like an LLM, or even LLM / AI aside, address immediately the classic "why did we do that here, in this way, at this time?" questions about a codebase. I could definitely see some CodeVideo / CodeMic interoperability via some sort of export :D Let's see what happens...

seansh 2y ago

I agree that it's a huge space and believe there is demand for better presentation of educational material for programming beyond algorithms that fits in a slide. I do think that our approaches are a little different and time will prove which is more effective, or perhaps both in their own ways. For example, CodeMic aims to replace books and blogs for discussions of large codebases and showing changes to code over time, but CodeVideo seems to enhance the experience of writing books and blogs (among other things) by ensuring correctness of the code for example. There's a lot you can do there with that which I never really thought about and is out of scope for CodeMic. If the format is open, perhaps CodeMic and CodeVideo can even import from each other. p.s. can't disagree about the insane part, but still a lot of fun ;)

fullstackchris 2y ago
> CodeMic aims to replace books and blogs for discussions of large codebases and showing changes to code over time This is huge and something I've pondered about how to do efficiently, because what if you could forward this essential context info to something like an LLM, or even LLM / AI aside, address immediately the classic "why did we do that here, in this way, at this time?" questions about a codebase. I could definitely see some CodeVideo / CodeMic interoperability via some sort of export :D Let's see what happens...