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 :)

Great timing! I literally had "find modern screencap software" on my to-do list. The webcam footage in the 2.0 youtube video announcement looks super choppy though, is that normal?

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! 👊

Loom was the only video recording tool + browser extension I came across that let me record for free, without any watermarks. The export/download video feature was also really helpful for my usecase.

Pros:

Super easy to get going, no watermarks, easy export feature

Cons:

none as of now!

Love Loom! I often make how-to videos to send to my wife when she's stuck with Excel at work :) Question: how do/will you make money... Subscription model? Premium version?

Never disappoints :)

One of my favourite apps that I’ve been using since practically day 1! It’s now a core part of the operating stack at all of our startups. Kudos to the whole team for listening to user feedback and focusing dev efforts on producing a high quality, easy to use, indispensable utility. A great case study for all the budding startups out there

Awesome update! I remember seeing your recap from the team retreat saying your goal was to encourage people to share more quick videos. The use cases page certainly seems to be supporting that goal. Can you share what else might be coming? 🙂

Been using it for personal use mainly to record product demos and video tutorials and it works like a charm. Was really missing the trimming feature coz mistakes are bound to happen when recording anything longer than 2-3 minutes so now looking forward to using that.

Pros:

Super easy to use, clutter-free interface, great sharing capability and of course FREE!

Cons:

Haven't tried the new version but couldn't hide the icons on the bottom left earlier.

Love it so far!

Here's is the review in video using what else but Loom Video teams product :)

https://www.useloom.com/share/92...

Had used Loom chrome extension and gmail integration back in Sep then picked it up again in the new year Jan 2018.

As a back up here's the review in text for the old timers as well :)

I've used loom to:

*Explain in a JIRA ticket via walk through what I require

*Record a video to answer a Quora answer

*Introduced myself to a potential partnership opportunity with the government via providing the link in a LinkedIn message - they were blown away ... this was their response;

"Wow Baris. What an amazing and innovative introduction!"

*Send video emails and yesterday introduced myself to an offshore team - I have it embedded in gsuite gmail.

And I love how the video embeds and can be watched directly in your inbox without leaving (text emails are soooo last decade!)

Beats the hell out of text emails since video can express so much more of my whole self then text could ever!

I will try it also on Asana and Trello to enhance communication so collaboration with stakeholders is well understood with a personal message.

Awesome work guys!

A feature request: "Ability to add subtitles" - majority of us watch videos in silent until we qualify the content then watch it with sound. So I've seen you've got the new trimming feature and also ability to link to

Pros:

Great UX, very responsive support team, easy to use, loving the Gmail integration!

Cons:

Minor bugs come up when chrome updates however the team is very responsive to feedback and work quickly on getting bugs squashed!

Its so fun watch y'all continue to improve and grow this platform! Keep it up!

Congratulations @_shahedk @vhmth Super cool to watch the product evolve from the start! Been able to use it for so many different use cases from sending video tutorials to Commaful users to sending notes or instructions to friends or co-workers. It is by FAR the easiest tool I've come across for creating a quick video. What I'm most impressed by is how fast the video is ready......like 0 processing time? What? The video is literally ready the second I finish recording. How is that even possible? There is definitely some magic fairy dust involved somewhere in this product. Love the new updates. Video trimming, in particular, is going to be big for me. I often had to re-record because I messed up at the start or cut too late. Trimming will make things perfect. Great work team!

I think the ux can be further improved, also the new features needs to be selfexplanatory

Pros:

Works as its written on the website, fast install and video availability.

Cons:

Learning curve is a bit longer

How couldn't I upvote this tool? Been using it for a while at my company now - perfect tool for tutos, onboarding processes and so on. Keep up the good work! :)

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!

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

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!

I've been using loom for communicating concepts faster with clients, and also for explaining things easier at my company. It has been super easy and fast to use!

Pros:

Easy and fast to activate

Cons:

Nothing I can think about

The only issues I've had are with Chrome, not Loom. Sometimes I need to restart Chrome to get the extension to load.

Pros:

Love it! I've been using it for a while and am super happy with it.

Cons:

Wish it worked in Firefox too, Chrome can be buggy.

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