Loom 2.0 - One-click screen recorder. Now w/ trimming & emoji reactions

Hey Product Hunt folks! 👋🏻 We're excited to be back on here. First off, thank you @erictwillis for hunting Loom's biggest release to date. Loom 2.0 includes a number of new features, such as: 🎥 Newly revamped Recording Experience ✂️ Video Trimming 😍 Emoji Reactions in videos 📢 Activity Notifications 👩‍🏫 Use Cases Page (https://www.useloom.com/use-cases) It's very humbling to see Loom come such a long way since our debut on Product Hunt back in July 2016. Now, Loom has over 415,000 users in 21,000+ cities around the world. Individuals use Loom to communicate internally (Team updates, Bug fixes, Design -> Eng handoffs, New employee onboarding, etc) and externally (Customer onboardings, Sales demos, Support tickets, etc). Massive props to the Loom team more than anything to get these features out. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have and we'll respond to them throughout the day :)

Absolutely fantastic update!! We have been using loom for Plutio.com and it has been great! 🙌🏻🎉🚀 Fun fact: we extensively used loom during our main launch few months ago. The quick and personal video recording experience helped us make 5000 sales in less than a week! 🙌🏻🚀🎉🙌🏻🎉🙌🏻🚀😍😱

Looks very professional. Is there a Firefox extension in the pipeline?

Hey @vhmth @joethomas_x @brianbelhumeur @garshythoel @_shahedk @brittlayton @paulius_dragunas @sephdk @susanacigano just downloaded the extension and can't wait to try, tell us more about 2.0, what's new with the latest release?

I've been using Loom for a long time to share regular internal updates with my team. I'm an engineer and having an easy way to share videos, with my voice over, of new features and bug fixes is great. It's easy and an awesome flow that improves our communication and keeps everyone involved.

We use Loom for customer facing content as well. We've created how to videos that we share via email or Intercom and users love them. We're now starting to embed videos in a library to help with user education.

Loom's making all of this easier. Loom is one of the top two apps we use that helps us as a startup, right there with Intercom.

Pros:

Easy to install and use. Easy to share videos. Videos are available immediately. Intuitive UI. Useful features like timestamped comments.

Cons:

None.

Your product looks amazing and I absolutely love the uses cases section. But I'm unsure about what "free" exactly means. I couldn't find anything on your website so that makes me unsure if I can trust you with my data. Any plans for pricing? Do you have funding? I don't want to start using this and establishing as a standard only for it to be gone in a couple of months. So any word on that (here as well as on your website) would be much appreciated! Other than that, Loom falls into the category of "How did this not exist yet?" - looks amazing!

every time i have to deal with a problem on a site or app i record it with Loom and send the link - makes it super simple!

Pros:

Simple as f*&^ - great to show customer support what is going on with software - they cannot argue

Cons:

none

I also use it for onboarding new users, recording quick personalized welcome videos, and answer their questions with how-to screencaps in our user dashboard

Pros:

love it. I use this almost exclusively for communicating bug reports to my developer

Cons:

none!

Been loving Loom for a long time now whenever sending product updates to team, partners or when needing to quickly show a feature to a customer. The new updates are just nice touches to the overall experience ✨ Keep up the good work team Loom! 👊

Love your product, guys! Keep up the good work team Loom! 👊

Definitely a solid product. Using it for some of our explainer videos.

First time I used Loom, I instantly fell in love with it. The product is great, saves a ton of time on showing colleagues or friends how-to and tutorials. Great job guys, I hope you do great on PH, you deserve it!

Website is super clean and looks really easy to use :) I cant wait to try it.

Lovely product, even better now! Congrats on the update, keep it up!! :)

Great job! I tested Loom back in September 2016 and didn't used it since as I didn't found good use-cases at the time. This fresh update and the use-cases page make me want to start using Loom again, congrats!

Excellent idea and solid implementation.

Pros:

simplicity

Cons:

none

I was looking for a screen recorder for my Chromebook and came across Loom a couple of weeks ago. Truly great product.

Great tool, been using Loom almost from day-1. After making over 1,000 videos I feel Loom a critical part of my daily workflow to share brief for my team and much more..

Pros:

Easy to use, Does what it says

Cons:

Yet to find

I use Loom every day for standups and it's pretty awesome — it's made things so much more streamlined for us!

Feature request: Video Dialogs (Response and comment)