Hey everyone! After nearly a year of building Cap.so, we’re thrilled to unveil our latest relaunch and show you everything we’ve been working on. We've rebuilt the entire app from the ground up, focusing on what matters most: making screen recording and sharing as effortless and powerful as possible.
Back in April, we introduced the first early version of Cap, and the response blew us away. We gained thousands of users, hit #1 on Hacker News (Show HN), and trended on GitHub with over 5k stars. Most importantly, we received incredible feedback that’s shaped the new direction we’re excited to share today.
What’s new in Cap?
Cap is now local-first and packed with powerful new features, including:
• 🚀 A powerful editor
• 📸 Screenshots
• ⌨️ Hotkeys
• 🎯 Quick action thumbnails
• 🌐 Team sharing capabilities
• 💻 Windows early access release
…and so much more.
But the star of this release, v0.3.1, is our biggest feature yet: Cap Apps.
These are community-submitted apps that extend Cap’s functionality in exciting ways. The first app launching today is S3 Config, which lets you connect your own S3 bucket. With this, all new shareable links are stored and served directly from your bucket, giving you 100% ownership of your data.
We can’t wait to hear what you think! Please share your feedback—it means the world to us. Thank you for your incredible support 🙏
About Cap on Product Hunt
“Beautiful screen recordings, owned by you. 100% open source.”
Cap launched on Product Hunt on November 28th, 2024 and earned 1.1k upvotes and 81 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. Cap is the open source alternative to Loom. Lightweight, powerful, and stunning. Record and share securely in seconds with custom S3 bucket support.
On the analytics side, Cap competes within Productivity, Open Source and Video — topics that collectively have 719.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Cap performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Cap?
Cap was hunted by Richie. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Richie