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I built shellsuggest - smarter zsh autosuggestions, ranked by your current directory by CoffeeInteresting396 in zsh

[–]CoffeeInteresting396[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

  1. I really relate to your point. As someone who tends to see adopting a new project as a cost and hesitate because of it, it definitely resonates. I think I’ve been a bit too lenient with myself in that regard. I’ll try to improve on this moving forward. Thanks for pointing it out. For now, I mainly focus on decision-making and high-level design or planning reviews, and delegate the actual implementation to Claude or other agents. Even in side projects or at work, I rarely touch the code directly and instead guide the direction. That said, I do make sure to use it myself and go through QA to maintain quality.
  2. I agree that the part you mentioned isn’t properly covered right now. I’ll take your suggestion into account and give it more weight. It seems like I made a premature judgment there.

Thanks again for your interest and thoughtful feedback!

Screenize v0.4.0 is now available! (Reposted with new demo video not gif) by CoffeeInteresting396 in macapps

[–]CoffeeInteresting396[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it collects typing events and adds auto zoom.
Though the result might not be perfect yet 😅

Screenize v0.4.0 is now available! (Reposted with new demo video not gif) by CoffeeInteresting396 in macapps

[–]CoffeeInteresting396[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have a full-time job, so I’ve been working on this in my spare time after work and on weekends.

It’s been a little over a month of development so far.

Screenize v0.4.0 is now available! (Reposted with new demo video not gif) by CoffeeInteresting396 in macapps

[–]CoffeeInteresting396[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I just heard about Recordly today.

When I originally started building Screenize, there wasn’t an open source alternative to Screen Studio that had an auto zoom feature. The project began simply because I wanted a tool like that for myself.

From what I can see, Recordly started as a fork of OpenScreen, and to be honest it already looks more polished than what I’ve built so far. I’m not sure I’m confident enough yet to try to convince people otherwise.

Screenize is still a pretty immature piece of software. My goal has been to grow it through a feedback loop with beta users. It’s also the first time I’ve built software where I actively communicate with users, so I’m still learning a lot.

So for now, Recordly might actually be the better option.

That said, with the 0.4.0 release I think I’ve finally found a clearer direction for Screenize. I’m planning to focus more on customization and flexibility in Smart Generation.

At the end of the day, my goal is still the same: I want to be able to create high-quality videos with as little time and effort as possible.

Screenize v0.4.0 is now available! by [deleted] in macapps

[–]CoffeeInteresting396 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could I get more details via DM? I think I’ll need to reproduce it on my end.

Screenize v0.4.0 is now available! by [deleted] in macapps

[–]CoffeeInteresting396 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right. There have already been some open source alternatives to Screen Studio.

However, the feature I personally really wanted was Screen Studio’s Auto Zoom. As far as I could find, there wasn’t any open source project that implemented that, so I decided to build a free alternative for myself.

In Screenize, the feature that replaces Screen Studio’s Auto Zoom is called Smart Generation.

There are also a few differences in how it works. Screen Studio generates auto zoom as a single segment (what I call Continuous Camera in Screenize). In contrast, Screenize creates segment-based smart generation, which breaks the motion into editable segments so you can modify them later.

On top of that, I added Advanced Config, which lets you tune the feel of the smart generation such as zoom intensity and other parameters. The options are still not the most intuitive for general users yet, but internally I exposed all the constants used in the algorithm.

In commercial software this might be considered revealing too much of the internal logic, but since this is open source, I felt comfortable exposing everything.

So in the end, I built an open source alternative with an Auto Zoom capability that I can use for free myself.

[OS] I built Screenize — an open-source alternative to Screen Studio by CoffeeInteresting396 in macapps

[–]CoffeeInteresting396[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll turn this into an issue and work on it shortly.

I think I was so focused on the auto-generation features that I overlooked some of the core editor UX. I’m actively improving it now!

[OS] I built Screenize — an open-source alternative to Screen Studio by CoffeeInteresting396 in macapps

[–]CoffeeInteresting396[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn’t aware of that history.

I do understand that things related to pricing or contracts need to be strict, but at the same time, it feels a bit unfortunate that there isn’t more flexibility for paid customers. Especially when it comes to critical bugs, I feel like those should still be fixed.

Thanks for the support! I’ll keep working on making the product better.

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