Record and share your coding sessions with CodeMic
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You can record and share coding sessions directly inside your editor.Think Asciinema, but for full coding sessions with audio, video, and images.While replaying a session, you can pause at any point, explore the code in your own editor, modify it, and even run it. This makes following tutorials and understanding real codebases much more practical than watching a video.Local first, and open source.p.s. I’ve been working on this for a little over two years* and would appreciate any feedback.* Previously: CodeMic: A new way to talk about code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42485088 - Dec 2024 (58 comments)
HN · launched Jan 28, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 40%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 203 launches, 25 in the last 7 days ▲ +39% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 203 launches in screen recording software →
Could you build this?
Partial Building a basic web recorder is accessible, but capturing interactive, replayable code editor states synced with media and executing live code in-browser is complex.
What it would actually take: Requires an editor plugin (or Monaco/VS Code web integration) capturing operational transforms or CRDT-based buffer diffs, synchronizing editor events with WebRTC/audio streams, and containerized web sandbox execution (e.g., WebContainers or isolated server runtimes). The hard part is deterministic time-travel replay that allows pausing and forking executable state at arbitrary timestamps.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: VSCode integration not working on SteamOS, Playback speed control missing
Feature requests: Simultaneous multiple video tracks (speaker + presentation), Playback speed control during reproduction
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 237 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #116 of 238 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 83 days after the earliest competitor.
- Agent Replay · ph · 2026-10-25 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Claude-replay · hn · 2026-03-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Watch random code typed out on an MS-DOS IDE · hn · 2026-07-27 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Claudebin · hn · 2026-02-19 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Claude-replay · hn · 2026-03-06 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- LiveShortly · ph · 2026-11-06 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Coding Wrapped · ph · 2026-10-31 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- cinecode-studio · github · 2026-11-08 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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