Why am I building this?!
Why am I building this?!
Why am I building this?!
2024 was a hard year for me. I shut down a venture backed startup that never found product market fit. We returned money to investors, let go of the team, and faced hard conversations. I felt very lost and it was like watching a dream shatter in slow motion.
The best moments of my career have always been about building products people love. Somewhere along the way, I lost that. I gave away the parts I was good at so I could focus on trying to get the company to take off. I was stuck doing things I hated, pivoting to find success at any cost.
Building Instant Replay has been about healing that. I needed to make something myself, that I wanted. Partly to prove I could. Partly because I was so fed up of recording Loom videos!
The Product
Instant Replay lets you capture the last 30 seconds of your screen without hitting record first. No prepping your words before recording, no awkward re-records, or trying to reproducing what you’ve just done. Just hit the button and share what just happened.
The idea came from frustration:
Finding bugs with only to hear, “Works on my machine.” and "Did you capture the logs?!"
Fumbling through many a restart of a screen recordings and then dealing with Loom crashing.
Wanting to quickly show someone how to do something, but having to rehearse it first before recording.
It’s works well for capturing bugs, explaining workflows, or showing how to change a setting without the hassle of hitting “record” first. No need to hit record, no restarts, just do the thing and hit Instant Replay.
The Bigger Vision
Long term, I believe instant replays of our screens will become important as AI evolves. Reasoning models , and AI agents are starting to think and act on our behalf, but we’ll need better ways to see what they’re doing. Screenshots and screen recordings will be increasingly important, I suspect the usage of Playwright and Selenium has grown exponentially, and I’m hoping instant replays will be part of that mix too.
Like in gaming, it’ll be something weird, something unexpected or something cool that will need an instant replay that’s worth recording and sharing.
For the first time in a long time, I’m excited about building products again. And building Instant Replays has given me a small spark back again.
I've never been more excited about the technology that is being built and I’m hoping things on our screens will be worth replaying.
Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
TCS
2024 was a hard year for me. I shut down a venture backed startup that never found product market fit. We returned money to investors, let go of the team, and faced hard conversations. I felt very lost and it was like watching a dream shatter in slow motion.
The best moments of my career have always been about building products people love. Somewhere along the way, I lost that. I gave away the parts I was good at so I could focus on trying to get the company to take off. I was stuck doing things I hated, pivoting to find success at any cost.
Building Instant Replay has been about healing that. I needed to make something myself, that I wanted. Partly to prove I could. Partly because I was so fed up of recording Loom videos!
The Product
Instant Replay lets you capture the last 30 seconds of your screen without hitting record first. No prepping your words before recording, no awkward re-records, or trying to reproducing what you’ve just done. Just hit the button and share what just happened.
The idea came from frustration:
Finding bugs with only to hear, “Works on my machine.” and "Did you capture the logs?!"
Fumbling through many a restart of a screen recordings and then dealing with Loom crashing.
Wanting to quickly show someone how to do something, but having to rehearse it first before recording.
It’s works well for capturing bugs, explaining workflows, or showing how to change a setting without the hassle of hitting “record” first. No need to hit record, no restarts, just do the thing and hit Instant Replay.
The Bigger Vision
Long term, I believe instant replays of our screens will become important as AI evolves. Reasoning models , and AI agents are starting to think and act on our behalf, but we’ll need better ways to see what they’re doing. Screenshots and screen recordings will be increasingly important, I suspect the usage of Playwright and Selenium has grown exponentially, and I’m hoping instant replays will be part of that mix too.
Like in gaming, it’ll be something weird, something unexpected or something cool that will need an instant replay that’s worth recording and sharing.
For the first time in a long time, I’m excited about building products again. And building Instant Replays has given me a small spark back again.
I've never been more excited about the technology that is being built and I’m hoping things on our screens will be worth replaying.
Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
TCS
2024 was a hard year for me. I shut down a venture backed startup that never found product market fit. We returned money to investors, let go of the team, and faced hard conversations. I felt very lost and it was like watching a dream shatter in slow motion.
The best moments of my career have always been about building products people love. Somewhere along the way, I lost that. I gave away the parts I was good at so I could focus on trying to get the company to take off. I was stuck doing things I hated, pivoting to find success at any cost.
Building Instant Replay has been about healing that. I needed to make something myself, that I wanted. Partly to prove I could. Partly because I was so fed up of recording Loom videos!
The Product
Instant Replay lets you capture the last 30 seconds of your screen without hitting record first. No prepping your words before recording, no awkward re-records, or trying to reproducing what you’ve just done. Just hit the button and share what just happened.
The idea came from frustration:
Finding bugs with only to hear, “Works on my machine.” and "Did you capture the logs?!"
Fumbling through many a restart of a screen recordings and then dealing with Loom crashing.
Wanting to quickly show someone how to do something, but having to rehearse it first before recording.
It’s works well for capturing bugs, explaining workflows, or showing how to change a setting without the hassle of hitting “record” first. No need to hit record, no restarts, just do the thing and hit Instant Replay.
The Bigger Vision
Long term, I believe instant replays of our screens will become important as AI evolves. Reasoning models , and AI agents are starting to think and act on our behalf, but we’ll need better ways to see what they’re doing. Screenshots and screen recordings will be increasingly important, I suspect the usage of Playwright and Selenium has grown exponentially, and I’m hoping instant replays will be part of that mix too.
Like in gaming, it’ll be something weird, something unexpected or something cool that will need an instant replay that’s worth recording and sharing.
For the first time in a long time, I’m excited about building products again. And building Instant Replays has given me a small spark back again.
I've never been more excited about the technology that is being built and I’m hoping things on our screens will be worth replaying.
Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
TCS
