Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025one of my favourite @cap.so features. system audio recording with separate volume sliders. 030
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025the @cap.so just shipped database table renames in prod at 10:30pm on a Tuesday 000
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025new @cap.so dashboard is live. faster, cleaner and easier then ever before to share your screen recordings. 100% open source. 010
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025record. edit. share. @cap.so is the open source loom alternative. free version available for macOS and Windows. 031
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025👋 @cap.so is the open source Loom successor. Record in Instant Mode and generate a shareable link, or record with Studio Mode and edit your video locally. Cross-platform. Connect your own storage. Use a custom domain. Invite your team. We're just getting started. 3192
Reposted by Richie McIlroybrendan @brendonovich.dev · 20/03/2025@cap.so is getting a whole suite of improvements over the next few days - redesigned editor - new 'start recording' flow - system audio capture then focusing on bug fixes & ux improvements for the next couple of weeks to make the app super smooth 1113
Reposted by Richie McIlroybrendan @brendonovich.dev · 15/02/2025been working on my own version of the 'fail' crate for @cap.so that allows fail points to be toggled in real-time. all declared 'fail' (panic) and 'fail_err' (Err return) points are collected by the 'inventory' crate, and a global map that our debug window can modify toggles them on and off. 011
Reposted by Richie McIlroybrendan @brendonovich.dev · 29/01/2025I'm happy to announce I'm officially joining cap.so as Founding Engineer! After helping with the new recorder + editor for a while, I'm excited to be a part of building the open source screen recording suite our users have been asking for. 3162
Reposted by Richie McIlroybrendan @brendonovich.dev · 22/01/2025built a new video decoder for cap.so that uses native macOS APIs and omg it's so much faster 181
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Mixed emotions this morning after waking up to #2 on Product Hunt. On the one hand I'm annoyed because of obvious upvote botting (with proof), but on the other hand I'm incredibly grateful for everyone who supported Cap.so yesterday. Thank you 🥹 010
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I’m currently fighting mass Stripe payment fraud whilst trying to preserve our #1 spot on ProductHunt… Please make my day better and give Cap an upvote 🥺 Product Hunt link 👉 cap.link/ph 110
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Cap is still going strong on Product Hunt and we're now sitting in 1st place! Just need to maintain the lead 🙈 Your support is massively helpful 👉 Cap.link/ph 110
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Yeah I get what you're saying, the email is basically just for marketing purposes at the end of the day. First email you receive, you can just unsubscribe. If you only make recordings locally/edit locally we don't emit any events or store anything on our end. Thank you for your feedback though! 000
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The open source Loom alternative you’ve been waiting for. With Cap.so, you can connect your own S3-compatible storage bucket to maintain 100% ownership of your shared screen recordings. Truly open source and privacy-friendly. 170
Reposted by Richie McIlroyAtila @atila.io · 28/11/2024Amazing product! I've been using it a lot and totally recommend it! Also, @solidjs.com 🤝 @tauri.app shipped with @crabnebula.dev I love seeing this 😍 2143
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024We're live! Cap v0.3.1 is now live on Product Hunt 🥳 📷 Launch page → Cap.link/ph Your support would mean a lot! 2152
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024open source is awesome. Before I went to bed, I posted a $200 bounty for adding dark mode to Cap Desktop. woke up this morning and someone has already submitted a PR with only minimal tweaks required 💥 120
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024we're soon releasing extensions for Cap 🤩 first up is S3 Config, the ability to upload and serve screen recordings directly from your own S3 bucket. 100% ownership over your own data. which name do you prefer... Cap Apps or Cap Store? 000
Reposted by Richie McIlroybrendan @brendonovich.dev · 14/11/2024pretty happy with this mic level indication i've made for cap.so, should be super helpful for distinguishing microphone issues from recording/encoding issues 0104
Richie McIlroy @richiemcilroy.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I've just started working on one of the most important projects at Cap.so... going all in 🫡 010
Reposted by Richie McIlroybrendan @brendonovich.dev · 06/11/2024managed to cut the CPU usage of cap.so recording from 110% -> 30% usage with some simple fixes: - hardware acceleration using ffmpeg's h264_videotoolbox encoder. -50% CPU - capturing in NV12 format directly instead of converting from RGBA. -30% CPU next update is gonna be so much lighter!cap.soCap — Beautiful, shareable screen recordings.Cap is the open source alternative to Loom. Lightweight, powerful, and stunning. Record and share in seconds. 062
