DaisyCap
A native Mac screen recorder and editor, built in Rust.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 53 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 193 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- macos
- macos-app
- screen
- screen-capture
- screen-recorder
- screen-recording
- +6 more
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Could you build this?
Partial The editor UI, caption editing, export options, and sharing flow are vibe-codeable, but a real native macOS screen recorder needs low-level capture and real-time video processing. Those parts require hard systems expertise that AI assistance alone won't reliably supply.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a native macOS capture layer (ScreenCaptureKit, AVFoundation, Core Audio for system and mic audio) with a Rust core for the pipeline. The hard parts are real-time frame compositing for zooms, callouts and backgrounds (typically Metal or a GPU path), click and keyboard tracking via accessibility and event APIs, and word-level caption sync with Whisper or Apple Speech. Reaching a polished result also takes experience with macOS permissions, codec and encoder tuning, and signing and notarization, plus a small backend for temporary share links.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3393 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1548 of 3394 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 367 days after the earliest competitor.
- Slice · github · 2026-10-16 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.85
- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.84
- rec-rs · github · 2026-10-11 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- Tinycap, a tiny Mac screen recorder that makes PR-sized GIFs and MP4s · hn · 2026-10-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- open-scrantic · github · 2026-10-16 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- photon · github · 2026-10-27 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- glide · github · 2026-10-13 · 202 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- MetalNX · github · 2026-10-27 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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