Readit Newsmcilroy commented on Show HN: Reintroducing Cap, the open source Loom alternative github.com/CapSoftware/Ca... · Posted by u/mcilroy
mcilroy commented on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative Cap.so... · Posted by u/mcilroy
Some feedback on your site's UX - on desktop, I don't expect hovering on a menu item to open a new context, so by habit I click on it. You're opening on hover, though, and my click is closing the context immediately.
thanks for this! agreed, will fix.
mcilroy commented on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative Cap.so... · Posted by u/mcilroy
Some honest feedback: describe your product/tool without using a competitor’s name. I’m on mobile and the landing page only tells me “recording software” and “Loom” before it drops into Twitter like 3rd party comments.
I honestly have never used Loom. I don’t know what it is. Do you really want me to have to go look up “the competition” just to know who you are?
Definitely agree with what you're saying.
It's easier for us at the start to get some attention from Loom specific users by mentioning Loom directly, but it's not a sustainable strategy going forward.
Will update the marketing copy etc over the coming weeks/months to be more about the problem we're solving specifically.
mcilroy commented on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative Cap.so... · Posted by u/mcilroy
I have no idea what loom is, so describing Cap as an open-source loom tells me nothing. There’s likely dozens of people like me, haha.
Yeah that's a good point. It's a good way for us to get started with people familiar of Loom, but it's not future proof for sure.
Back in April, we introduced the first early version of Cap, and the response blew us away. We gained thousands of users, hit #1 on Hacker News (Show HN), and trended on GitHub with over 5k stars. Most importantly, we received incredible feedback that’s shaped the new direction we’re excited to share today.
The star of this release, v0.3.1, is our biggest feature yet: Cap Apps.
These are community-submitted apps that extend Cap’s functionality in exciting ways. The first app launching today is S3 Config, which lets you connect your own S3 bucket. With this, all new shareable links are stored and served directly from your bucket, giving you 100% ownership of your data.