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by ezconnect 763 days ago
I have no idea what Loom is, I also have the same issue I didn't tell me what the product is and just got confuse and didn't explore further.
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Same. I’ve never heard of Loom and (therefore?) I’m honestly not sure how this would be different on a Mac than a QuickTime screen recording. And since the promo images are from a Mac, my first thought is Quicktime is probably safer.
Just to address this comment chain: loom does make it easier to do screen recordings and demos, and additionally has features like timestamped comments and notes and sharing functionality.

The target customer is a business who is making demo videos and needs these kinds of tracking/collaboration/commenting features.

Folks interested in open source maybe want a better offering, don’t want to be locked in, want more favorable pricing, or want a self hosted version.

As someone who has used loom, the value proposition is clear from the title without even going to the website.

It wouldn't hurt if the key sentence from your first paragraph was in the top two paragraphs of the landing page.