[memset]

I disagree - the fact you don’t know what Loom is probably means you’re not in the market for this kind of software. Better, at this stage, to focus on users who will immediately get it rather than explain to folks who don’t currently have a need.

[muglug]

People may well use Loom-like functionality that’s integrated into other tools they use without knowing the name “Loom”.

Loom had a head-start, but other companies (e.g. Vimeo) copied the feature pretty quickly.

And also, more importantly, this is a “Show HN” post, so reasonable for people here to question the comparison.

[bestnameever]

Loom in the title got my attention. It is the only reason I clicked on the link.

It is unfortunate this is being discussed rather than the product.

[Flam]

+1 same. If this was a generic screen recording software I’d have skipped it.

[Moru]

Same here. However I was very disappointed because it was nothing like what I was expecting from the name.

[j45]

I think that might be true for a small group of people.

Calling it a replacement screen recording tool like Loom is probably ideal to hit both markets.

Loom made the work around the recording step easier, something that other options seem to be adopting.

Still, lots of people recorded lots of screens before Loom, kind of like loom.

Camtasia, Jing, and plenty of other tools out there. Jing in particular would record and upload automatically and put the link to the video in your clipboard, years in advance of Loom registering potentially questionable patents to parts of that.

Loom was ultimately acquired by Atlassian as a video capture tool for JIRA, etc an won't likely grow much feature wise for the masses. It will be great for that. I'm still a paying customer of loom.

There are a lot of features missing in Loom though that is going to spark a lot of alternatives to continue from where Loom left off. If anything Loom's growth seemed to have stalled relative to how much they were acquired for.

Average people are using apps like tiktok to produce videos instead.

Calling it a screen recording tool is a good thing. A lot of people don't even know how easy it is to do a screen recording on a computer.

[bitcharmer]

Loom does have a meaning for me because I follow innovation in Java. This is not it. Would be good to have a solid description of what it is.