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I replaced my Loom subscription with a screen recorder the AI built in 3 hours

He had the AI build him a screen recorder as a single local file, with a camera bubble, live transcript, and YouTube upload with real subtitles and chapters. He built it because he wanted to stop paying for Loom.

How it works

  1. The AI builds the recorder in about 3 hours using plain browser tools for screen, camera and microphone
  2. It adds a floating preview window, a live transcript, and caption rules for the subtitles
  3. Recordings upload straight to YouTube as unlisted, with a subtitle track and chapters

Why it’s worth knowing

One local file on his Mac does the job a paid subscription used to do, camera bubble, transcript and YouTube chapters included. It took the AI about 3 hours to build.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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