Love it. Screen recorders have always been strangely pricey especially before OBS came out.

I used to be a Loom user but actually churned because the screen recording in Slack is so good. You can download it without posting so I use it if I need to email a video.

Of course, it lacks the killer feature of link sharing.

Congratulations on launching and best of luck!

I churned with Loom too because I don't need the storage part and was looking for an alternative. I like the idea of an open-source Loom alternative. However, if anyone is looking, I found out that an old software I was using, Cleanshot[1], added the feature to record your webcam and screen with their recent update. I have started using it again. For the upload part (I don't use their cloud), either using Dropbox or Google drive is pretty trivial to setup and is done by the time I finish writing the email or a cup of tea to send to anyone that needs it.

For the Sorbay founders here -- best of luck and congratulations on the launch. Personally, I felt your narrative is kinda made-up and not genuine or compelling enough (again, may be just me and trying to be open, trying to do the founder-to-founder open feedback). Can we try a different narrative? The reasoning is, why would the team just give up what they were doing and start working on a tool because one of their tool get in the way of getting their work done efficiently?

Finally, a tool such as a screen-recorder is good to have an open-source alternative but that's that -- it is open source for the sake of being open source and falls into the current hot open-source core but paid service layer business model.

Again, best of luck and I will definitely try it out once it is public, the pricing is decided and ready to use (not the waitlist thingy).

1. https://cleanshot.com

Congrats on launching. Can you add an auto-zooming feature like https://screen.studio

Many screen recordings are now consumed on mobile, and it's difficult to see details without zooming.

I tried doing this on Windows with OBS, and got it working with a Python script but it was painful.

Congratz on new useful tool into the market!

I happened tried another 2 products shared here by combinators, both are cool, have link sharing feature, I remembered one got video file size limitations, but for light usage, its really neat.

I won't mention the products because I seldom use I even forgot the name, but all stay in my bookmarks when I need I open the website.

I once tried to make something like loom but then I saw their patents and got scared

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9641566B1/en

Congrats, this is a unique offering in the OSS space to my understanding

Loom has been working on an SDK which has been in BETA forever. Hopefully this could be a good alternative if it can be easily integrated into other products.

Thought it was kind of funny you uploaded the demo video to YouTube, cool regardless

Does Sorbay record audio output?