I made a screen recording app to make demos like an Apple commercial
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Hey HN!I made ShotGlass, a Mac app for screenshots, screen recordings, and cinematic demos.I was tired of jumping between four apps to make one product demo. Screenshots, recordings, annotations, and After Effects for anything cinematic.I also saw the MacBook Neo commercials (recording playing on a 3D MacBook in a scene) and wondered why no screen recorder just did that.So ShotGlass does all of it: multi-window capture, annotations, zooms, transitions, and dropping a recording onto a 3D MacBook with a simulated lens.It's free to try, a one time purchase and everything stays local.I tried to make it simple to use and, for fun, themed like a glass of whisky. I'm updating it quite a lot, so I'd love your feedback.
HN · launched May 13, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Marketing
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial Capturing screen video and standard UI controls is straightforward, but rendering 3D device models with real-time simulated optics, realistic motion blur/zooms, and custom video compositing requires specialized graphics and video pipeline programming.
What it would actually take: A native macOS app in Swift/Metal or Electron with native C++ node add-ons using ScreenCaptureKit for multi-window screen recording. The difficult component is the video compositor and 3D rendering pipeline (using SceneKit, Metal, or custom WebGL/Three.js render passes) to project dynamic screen textures onto animated 3D MacBook meshes with simulated camera lens physics, followed by AVFoundation/FFmpeg hardware-accelerated video encoding.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Windows version support
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