Shot-scraper video tool for recording YAML-defined webapp feature demos
Details
- External ID
- 48735625
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Shot-scraper video tool for recording YAML-defined webapp feature demos
- Website domain
- simonwillison.net
- Launched
- June 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4952185792349727
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video editing and creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- record webapp feature demos from yaml
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 465 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #234 of 466 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 242 days after the earliest competitor.
- video-demo · github · 2026-09-17 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Rendly · hn · 2026-09-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Openvid · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Raw Screen Recordings into Cinematic Apple-Style Product Demos · hn · 2026-09-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Viddcut · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Geneva · hn · 2026-09-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- SVEET · github · 2026-09-18 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- video-generator-client · github · 2026-09-14 · 535 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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