“Tried a couple of products but they pissed me off (heavy, slow, expensive, didn't let you use all the features).”
Chris, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
Screen Studio wants $29 a month to zoom in on your cursor. Fovea does it on Windows for the price of an npm install.
Screen Studio wants $29 a month and makes you export before you get a link. Reelbird hands you the link the second you stop, polish later, bill never.
“Loom's free plan stops each video at 5 minutes and won't let you download it; Screen Studio costs $29 a month and gives you a link only after you export.”
Screen Studio wants $20 a month for zoom-on-click. Reframed does the zooms, captions and webcam bubble for the price of a brew install.
“Getting cursor-tracking zoom effects, auto-captions, or webcam overlays on top of that usually means paying for a proprietary app.”
CapCut lets you edit the whole video, then wants a subscription at the Export button. Concat exports for free and never learned the word watermark.
“I was really excited to complete and upload my first video ever, and everything seemed perfect until I clicked Export and it showed a popup saying that I had to pay a monthly subscription fee to use the most trivial features like voice changers.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.
