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Long-time HN lurker, first time poster.This is something I put together over a few days, it's a simple offline-only screen recorder with webcam compositing that works on any modern desktop browser.As much as I love Loom to avoid meetings, I don't want to pay for useless features and have my recordings essentially paywalled. I hate SaaS.With Loom's recent price increase, I thought I'd finally share it. Feedback is welcome
HN · launched Feb 14, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 203 launches in screen recording software →
Could you build this?
Yes Modern browser APIs like MediaRecorder and getDisplayMedia allow full client-side screen and webcam capture composited on an HTML5 canvas without needing any backend server.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: No source code available, No privacy policy, Missing About page/information
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #103 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 106 days after the earliest competitor.
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- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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