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7 5 8 years ago

Hi HN!

Tao (@taot) and I have built a tool that allows users to create screen recordings (via a chrome extension) for bug reports. I've been in the software industry more than a decade and a significant part of it has been dealing with bug reports -- writing reports and fixing bugs. Over time I've learnt that good bug reports are tedious to create, they require great detail on the steps to reproduce. In the last couple years through some projects I picked up building video tools and figured that screen recording might help alleviate that longstanding painpoint of mine -- creating good bug reports in the fastest way possible.

Having talked to users, we found that a lot of people are already using various offline screen recording tools like Quicktime, but they still require users to find a platform to upload the video to and lack collaboration features. Outclip aims to streamline the entire bug reporting process - from creation to submission, while allowing users to collaborate with each other. Hope you give it a try and find it useful. We look forward to your comments and feedback for improvement.

rahimnathwani• 8 years ago

I worked at a company that had a very similar tool for internal bug reports, but AFAIK they never released it publicly. It reduced greatly the friction in filing bugs, so probably increased the quantity as well as quality of bug reports.

So glad to see Outclip. Usability looks great.

carusooneliner2• 8 years ago

Thanks for your words of encouragement! Very interesting to hear that you've come across an internal tool that did something similar.

6841iam• 8 years ago

Been an early beta user of outclip for a few months now. Robust app, works well and looks very polished. I like that the devs have started to focus on the bug reporting use case. Looking forward to seeing where they take this!

taot• 8 years ago

Thank you for sticking with us! Outclip is developed for users like you, so if we haven't talked to you yet, we'd love to have a chat and hear some more insights from you!

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