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Introducing Clips - 100% free, open source, agent-native alternative to Loom Unlike Loom, agent's can fully understand Clips just from a URL. Every Clip comes with APIs and metadata for agents to explore their contents. Agents can "see and hear" anything in a Clip - not just transcripts, but...

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Steve (Builder.io)3 months ago

Source here: Try it here:

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swyx3 months ago

putting this in my clanker TONIGHT

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Steve (Builder.io)3 months ago

hell yes

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Sherif Mansour3 months ago

Not just a Loom problem, lots of SaaS apps to Agent problem. If you're a Loom (or Atlassian) user, another simple tactic is to connect Claude to your Teamwork Graph - so Agents can read your Looms.. and Google Docs and Salesforce.... and basically all the apps you've authed to your graph.

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Ben Sehl3 months ago

Thank you sir!!

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Steve (Builder.io)3 months ago

you got it Ben - if you have any feedback lmk!

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Ty3 months ago

Very smart, Steve. Going to try and incorporate it into my workflow

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Andrey3 months ago

I hope your pillow is cold on both sides coz this is sick af

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Gurbinder3 months ago

its still useless, because suppose you need to make him "create this animation here is [video]" it can only see frames but not animation

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Cody Hergenroeder 🍋⚡️3 months ago

Im using (FOSS) but im curious about your agent-native approach

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HireBrian.ai3 months ago

Could I use this to convert my current looms to local?

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Sridhar Ratnakumar3 months ago

> self host yourself. Where are the instructions? What's "agent-native"? Where's "Clips"?

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Paweł3 months ago

@grok explain in simple words what are the use cases

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Nayan3 months ago

Or you could try Userplane It captures screen recordings with console logs, network requests and session activity so you can get to the root cause faster Also it's plays nicely with Claude Code, Codex and more

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Dylan Holland3 months ago

the sooner someone replaces loom with a real world solution I can send to a client the better. I simply rage at looms customer support once a week and they've never fixed a single issue I rage at them about.

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Bilal Bakr3 months ago

Bro you're the best, this alongside the visual recap & visual plan skills are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Keep shipping man 🫡

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Grant Walker 🗝️3 months ago

Awesome! I was just thinking about builting something like this. I'll give it a shot!

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Celestine3 months ago

So freaking cool. Thanks a lot for building this!

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Tanaka3 months ago

Here is another way to do the same thing with a skill -

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KunKun折腾手记3 months ago

Interesting! I'll check it out. I've actually been thinking about starting my own short-form social media recently.

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Nitin3 months ago

this is lit!

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mahir3 months ago

pretty solid! i guess i could easily have this auto create a bug report in linear & then have my coding harness of choice tackle it E2E

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ingenious3 months ago

really interesting idea, gonna try this out

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Hussain Hashim | Building SundayBack3 months ago

@Steve8708 finally, no more Loom limitations. excited to see how the API integration works out!

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Yörükayi🐻3 months ago

Curious how people are saving on LLM costs at scale — model switching, caching, prompt trimming? We found that repeated identical prompts are the most underrated savings opportunity. Most apps are paying for the same computation 3-4x without realizing it.

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Alex3 months ago

based

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Farrux Hewson3 months ago

Just in time, planning to start promoting products with videos

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Franz Wiesbauer MD MPH3 months ago

Thx...Bug: Agent Native clip is ready and transcript works, but video/frame access fails. Share page says “Video could not be loaded”; /api/video returns 500; /api/agent-frame.jpg returns 422 because videoUrl fetch fails.

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Steve (Builder.io)3 months ago

can you link me to the clip url that is erroring?

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lakshya3 months ago

@tarunsachdeva

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Dennison3 months ago

@stskeeps Brilliant!

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Harry Ashton3 months ago

That solve's two of my problems, that's epic Steve, thank you! Trying this out today

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ahmad ghoniem3 months ago

Really cool concept

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Rick Blalock3 months ago

nice!

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Eddie Jaoude | DevRel | Open Source3 months ago

This looks great, I can't wait to try it! WOW Open Source also 😍

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Dries Van den Broecke3 months ago

Dude! Genius

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BlakeTheCoder3 months ago

It's honestly insane how obvious this looks in hindsight. I've passed Loom links to agents for months. They never work. Full visual context plus APIs? Loom should have built this years ago.

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Dipanshu Kushwaha3 months ago

This sounds awesome! Excited to see how Clips can change the game for sharing info. Can't wait to try it out!

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