Hey there! I built an open-source tool called Snapify, which is designed to make screen recording sharing a breeze, just like Loom, but with the added benefit of being completely open-source.

Let’s say you quickly want to get a message across, there are three main ways:

  1. Get into a meeting
  2. Write a wall of text
  3. Share a quick recording

Recordings will look like this (new link): https://snapify.it/share/clk3mpgnu0003mj0f042964wg

I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas on how I may be able to improve the app. Is anyone here using Loom?

Here is the link: https://github.com/MarconLP/snapify Here is my Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marcon565

  • coleseph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Hey, looks neat.

    Hope you’re open to constructive criticism - I’d take a look at adding some production value to your how it works video.

    I work with a lot of martech folks that do product videos (I’m not selling you something) and I’d recommend a super straight forward marketing video that shows how easy the product is to use and share videos with.

    Get literally any budget microphone and record your audio voiceover VERY clearly in a closet and lay that over a simple workflow for capturing a video with snapify then sharing it. Add some royalty free background music at low volume and it’ll help sell this for you significantly more than your current video is doing.

  • Mike Wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Looks cool! I went to docker hub to see if you already have an image…there’s at least 1 other “snapify” that’s not you, I think. :( i’ve used Loom a few times - it would be nice to self-host this service.

    • Marcon@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I am providing docker containers, although they are hosted on Github: https://github.com/MarconLP/snapify/pkgs/container/snapify

      You can deploy snapify as a docker container using this command: docker run -d --name snapify-web -e DATABASE_URL="" -e NEXTAUTH_SECRET="REPLACESTRING" -e NEXTAUTH_URL="http://localhost:3000/" -e GITHUB_ID="" -e GITHUB_SECRET="" -e AWS_ENDPOINT="" -e AWS_REGION="" -e AWS_KEY_ID="" -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="" -e AWS_BUCKET_NAME="" -p 3000:3000 ghcr.io/marconlp/snapify:latest

  • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I used to use Loom, and I love the idea of having it self hosted. I read the the git page and have a simple question (I’m not a very advanced user): How does this work?

    Loom runs as a desktop client (Windows in my case) and then there is the server side software that handles serving the videos to others. From what I can tell there is no local client.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I prefer query builders like slonik, or just raw. Prisma does crazy stuff with joins which turns what should be a simple query into 300 queries. Its a well documented problem in their issue tracker. I’ve not worked on a single repo that didn’t eventually move away from it with growth, including in a professional capacity. On top of that, you put in an ORM and everyone ends up using the same DB anyway, so you lose out on potential optimizations.