[HN Gopher] Show HN: Sorbay - Open-source alternative to Loom
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       Show HN: Sorbay - Open-source alternative to Loom
        
       Hey HN, we're excited to introduce Sorbay - an open source
       alternative to Loom for creating and sharing screen recordings.
       With Sorbay, you can easily record your screen, camera, and
       microphone all at once. It is a complete solution that comes with
       its own backend service, allowing you to instantly share a link of
       your recording as soon as it is finished. The video is streamed
       directly to the backend service as the recording happens to make
       this possible.  With both founders based in different countries, we
       needed a tool to quickly share screen recordings to keep us up to
       date or to ask for feedback. Meetings are cool if you need to
       discuss something deeply, but for almost everything else a quick
       recording works better.  We had to settle for one of the
       proprietary solutions because none of the open source tools allowed
       us to quickly share something with each other. Doing the recording
       is one aspect, but having the ability to instantly share a link was
       crucial. Waiting on a 400mb video upload to a Dropbox is just too
       much interruption if you want to quickly share something.  The
       tipping point for us to actually build this open source tool came
       via an interaction from one of our day jobs. A third party provider
       sent a screen recording full of confidential information and to
       make things worse, all of it was uploaded by them to a different
       third party service. We strongly believe that information like this
       should stay within a company, ideally on infrastructure that they
       control themselves. Having a fully integrated open source solution
       is the best way to go for this.  Our goal with this first public
       release is to gather feedback. The critical code paths are working,
       but it is still a bit rough to use. We deliberately cut out all
       non-essential features, but have a clear roadmap on what we want to
       release this year.  There are a couple of known issues like audio
       glitches, non-working videos in Safari and crashing binaries that
       we hope to fix in the coming weeks. Later this year, we plan on
       releasing a cloud hosted version of Sorbay that would let you
       connect your own S3 storage provider. Additionally, we will be
       releasing an on-prem option focused on features for enterprises
       (SSO, RBAC, compliance).  Both the Sorbay Client and the backend
       service are completely open source. For licensing we choose the
       AGPLv3 throughout the stack. The client is built with Vue.js on top
       of Electron. The use of Electron might be a bit controversial here
       on Hackernews but given the resources we currently have that was
       the only way that allowed us to get a working client out on all
       major platforms. The backend service is realized with Django. We
       use Keycloak for authentication and Minio for S3 compatible
       storage. All of this is run alongside Postgres and Redis, running
       on Docker containers which are managed by Docker Compose.  We
       invite you to try Sorbay for yourself and join us on our issue
       tracker[1][2], Slack channel[3] or here on HN.  Thanks for checking
       out Sorbay!  [1]: https://github.com/sorbayhq/sorbay  [2]:
       https://github.com/sorbayhq/sorbay-client  [3]:
       https://join.slack.com/t/slack-oso6527/shared_invite/zt-1qd8...
        
       Author : jayfk
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-03-06 16:05 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | KomoD wrote:
       | Thought it was kind of funny you uploaded the demo video to
       | YouTube, cool regardless
        
         | jayfk wrote:
         | Good catch, I knew someone would notice! We wanted to be
         | prepared for the HN crowd and hadn't had that much confidence
         | in our own backend just yet.
        
       | mikaeln wrote:
       | Congrats, this is a unique offering in the OSS space to my
       | understanding
        
       | Jaxkr wrote:
       | Love it. Screen recorders have always been strangely pricey
       | especially before OBS came out.
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       | I used to be a Loom user but actually churned because the screen
       | recording in Slack is so good. You can download it without
       | posting so I use it if I need to email a video.
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       | Of course, it lacks the killer feature of link sharing.
       | 
       | Congratulations on launching and best of luck!
        
         | boomahora wrote:
         | Thanks!
         | 
         | Alex, cofounder here, 100% agree with you on the link sharing
         | and that was the feature for us that was always missing.
         | 
         | We've got big plans for this, so we're really excited to get
         | this beta live and start receiving feedback.
        
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