but also is amazed by AI coding tools and has embraced them recently (e.g. copilot then claude code then codex),

I'm curious, who out there is still not using any of these tools? And if not, why?

I feel it's become as common-place as autocomplete, or intellisense. Though I remember people used to hate those too.

I guess AI is like the modern day intellisense + docs targeted for exactly what you're doing, always (maybe that + an intern that never sleeps)

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I made ShotGlass, a Mac app for screenshots, screen recordings, and cinematic demos.

I was tired of jumping between four apps to make one product demo. Screenshots, recordings, annotations, and After Effects for anything cinematic.

I also saw the MacBook Neo commercials (recording playing on a 3D MacBook in a scene) and wondered why no screen recorder just did that.

So ShotGlass does all of it: multi-window capture, annotations, zooms, transitions, and dropping a recording onto a 3D MacBook with a simulated lens.

It's free to try, a one time purchase and everything stays local.

I tried to make it simple to use and, for fun, themed like a glass of whisky. I'm updating it quite a lot, so I'd love your feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119092

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Awesome to have a open model that can compete, but damn it would be so much better if you could run it locally. Otherwise, it's almost so difficult to run (e.g. self host) that it's just way more convenient to pay OpenAI, Claude, etc

Used rewardful before, but most people blocked cookies, then affiliates never got credited, then they stopped promoting.

Then I switched to Paddle and rewardful didn't even support it anymore.

So I built this. Uses coupon codes instead of cookies. Doesn't need any code changes to your site to start.

Connects to Stripe and Paddle in 15 seconds.

Optional one-line snippet for auto-apply links (no cookie banner). They're GDPR compliant by default.

It's also waffle themed... so you can become a "waffiliate"

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But, please, give us some nitty gritty of how you made it

Great work -> the minimalist UI, art and music fits amazingly.

One thing I noticed: the site's images fail to load if the brave adblocker is on

Gotta say that would be a pretty cool evolution of DIY electronics kits to OS kits

Thanks for the kind words!

Hey, if you want to do that with this software, I can't see any files you upload (it's all local processing in your web browser), so go for it.

That's good to know about the pricing. It's free for now. Honestly didn't expect this level of interest (there's 307 people on the site right now according to analytics).

With that interest, I may add some plans - potentially for the commercial use in particular