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With CodeMic 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 love to hear your thoughts.

HN · launched Feb 8, 2026 · 52 upvotes (top 18%) · 0 views

Niche: screen recording software · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Creating an interactive code-recording and replay environment inside an editor with synced AV, state snapshots, and in-browser execution requires complex virtualized runtime and editor extension engineering.

What it would actually take: The tool requires custom IDE extensions (VS Code / JetBrains) capturing granular text edits (CRDT or Operational Transformation stream) synchronized precisely with audio/video timestamps. The player environment needs an in-browser sandboxed execution environment (WebContainers, WebAssembly virtual file systems, or isolated container runners) that allows pausing the timeline, branching execution, and running code live. This demands deep expertise in editor extension APIs, terminal emulation/pty, audio-video sync protocols, and browser-based virtualization.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Scrimba, VS Code Code Tour feature, Loom, YouTube tutorials

Concerns raised: VSCode session doesn't launch when opening video, Unclear benefit over existing tutorials and books, Long-form tutorials hard to follow without pausing capability

Feature requests: Support for other editors beyond VSCode, Web version of CodeMic, Ability to pause and look up function definitions during playback, File/line edit timeline overview with jump-to functionality

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 213 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #63 of 214 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 94 days after the earliest competitor.

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