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Richie McIlroy

@richiemcilroy.bsky.social

Building Cap.so, the open source Loom alternative.

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Richie McIlroy@richiemcilroy.bsky.social · last yr.

👋 @cap.so is the open source Loom successor. Record in Instant Mode and generate a shareable link, or record with Studio Mode and edit your video locally. Cross-platform. Connect your own storage. Use a custom domain. Invite your team. We're just getting started.

brendan@brendonovich.dev · 2y ago

@cap.so is getting a whole suite of improvements over the next few days - redesigned editor - new 'start recording' flow - system audio capture then focusing on bug fixes & ux improvements for the next couple of weeks to make the app super smooth

A screenshot of Cap's new editor
brendan@brendonovich.dev · 2y ago

been working on my own version of the 'fail' crate for @cap.so that allows fail points to be toggled in real-time. all declared 'fail' (panic) and 'fail_err' (Err return) points are collected by the 'inventory' crate, and a global map that our debug window can modify toggles them on and off.

A screenshot with some code on top, Cap's debug window with a list of fail points on the left, and the main window on the right. The code demonstrates the 'fail' macro, for declaring fail points that should panic, and 'fail_err', which are points that should return an Err containing some value.
brendan@brendonovich.dev · 2y ago

I'm happy to announce I'm officially joining cap.so as Founding Engineer! After helping with the new recorder + editor for a while, I'm excited to be a part of building the open source screen recording suite our users have been asking for.

A screenshot of Cap's recorder and editor windows on a default macOS background
Richie McIlroy@richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mixed emotions this morning after waking up to #2 on Product Hunt. On the one hand I'm annoyed because of obvious upvote botting (with proof), but on the other hand I'm incredibly grateful for everyone who supported Cap.so yesterday. Thank you 🥹

Richie McIlroy@richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yeah I get what you're saying, the email is basically just for marketing purposes at the end of the day. First email you receive, you can just unsubscribe. If you only make recordings locally/edit locally we don't emit any events or store anything on our end. Thank you for your feedback though!

Richie McIlroy@richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 2y ago

The open source Loom alternative you’ve been waiting for. With Cap.so, you can connect your own S3-compatible storage bucket to maintain 100% ownership of your shared screen recordings. Truly open source and privacy-friendly.

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Richie McIlroy@richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 2y ago

open source is awesome. Before I went to bed, I posted a $200 bounty for adding dark mode to Cap Desktop. woke up this morning and someone has already submitted a PR with only minimal tweaks required 💥

Richie McIlroy@richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 2y ago

we're soon releasing extensions for Cap 🤩 first up is S3 Config, the ability to upload and serve screen recordings directly from your own S3 bucket. 100% ownership over your own data. which name do you prefer... Cap Apps or Cap Store?