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Shot-scraper video tool for recording YAML-defined webapp feature demos

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HN · launched Jun 30, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 50%) · 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?

Yes This is a CLI wrapper around Playwright that parses a YAML storyboard schema and executes browser automation steps to record screen video.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Screen Studio

Feature requests: Integration with open source video editors, LLM-based computer control functionality

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1376 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #734 of 1377 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 243 days after the earliest competitor.

  • video-demo · github · 2026-09-17 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • Rendly · hn · 2026-09-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • SunShot · github · 2026-11-08 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Openvid · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • video-flick · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Viddcut · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Slice · github · 2026-10-16 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Geneva · hn · 2026-09-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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