photon
Screenshot, markup and screen recording app for macOS and Windows, written in Rust.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 24 upvotes (top 57%) · 0 views
Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 193 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -11% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- annotation
- macos
- menu-bar
- rust
- screen-capture
- screen-recorder
- +2 more
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Could you build this?
Partial The markup editor and UI are vibe-codeable, but high-frame-rate hardware-accelerated capture with system audio, webcam, and HEVC encoding needs deep OS-level platform work on both macOS and Windows.
What it would actually take: Use native capture APIs (ScreenCaptureKit on macOS, Windows Graphics Capture/DXGI on Windows), hardware encoders (VideoToolbox, Media Foundation), and audio loopback, with the Rust core and a thin native UI layer. The hard parts are stable 60 fps capture without dropped frames, A/V sync across system audio and mic, and codec and permission handling per OS. This needs systems engineers with experience in platform media APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2318 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1330 of 2319 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
- jiffshot · github · 2026-10-30 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- open-scrantic · github · 2026-10-16 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- DaisyCap · github · 2026-11-02 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- glide · github · 2026-10-13 · 202 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- RustDesk-Suite1 · github · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- scriptcraft · github · 2026-10-12 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- rec-rs · github · 2026-10-11 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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