[AlexB138]

I played with Mmhmm during beta. It's a simpler to use OBS, from what I can tell. It's good for some laughs.

They just came out of beta and announced that it would cost $9.99/month. I was pretty shocked to see a recurring fee for such a simple app, which, from what I could tell, offers nothing new over a long establish FOSS project. It strikes me as more of a one time $10 purchase. Would really like to hear how they justify a recurring cost on this.

[lotyrin]

I'm sure they justify it with a pile of evidence that people are willing to pay that much. Folks here are probably just not the target market (would just use OBS and hack together whatever, or be confused about what value having our face on top of our slides would even have...).

[codetrotter]

OBS performance on my 2018 model MacBook Air is so horrible that I never use OBS on it.

But I think that is only a temporary problem kind of. And don’t know if Mmhmm would perform any better on it.

The new MacBook Air and Pro models with the M1 chip on the other hand I think from what I have heard make video encoding really fast. Would love to hear from anyone using OBS on one of these models, which machine you have and how OBS has been for you.

[floydnoel]

Very apt observation, I am quite confused why anyone would want their face on slides!

[codetrotter]

Because communication is more than just words and voice. Seeing the person that is talking is valuable.

[veidr]

I think am the target audience for this.

I do a lot of online meetings, and make regular internal presentations about our engineering work to the rest of the company. I have used OBS, and it does work, but it is complex enough and fiddly enough that operating it distracts me from my presentation.

This mmhmm app lets me do the key things OBS does – shrink myself to a corner of the window, with my presentation taking up the whole screen, jump to a live demo while keeping me in the corner — more simply, so that it is not a distraction to what I am presenting or demoing.

I use it every week. I work remotely, so these meetings are how I present myself at work. In that context, $10 a month is nothing; it doesn't even merit a second's hesitation.

[koalalorenzo]

What is the FOSS project you are talking about? Anything on GitHub/GitLab worth time looking into?

[chewzerita]

> It's a simpler to use OBS

https://obsproject.com/

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

[kendallgclark]

OBS Studio