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Show HN: Boom – A way simpler OBS alternative for macOS

6 pointsby krsna11 months ago
I got sick of people complaining about Zoom fatigue. I assumed these tools would eventually fix the UX of remote meetings, but that never happened.<p>After leaving Shopify, a few of us created Boom to inject energy back into video calls.<p>Boom is a virtual camera that adds overlays to the camera feed, allowing users to display their name, title, logo, GIFs, and even their local weather. Users can touch up their appearance using camera filters like saturation and brightness. They can also use global keyboard shortcuts to mute or start a screen share automatically in Zoom and Meet.<p>Privacy was a big concern for us too. All of the video processing is done locally and we don’t have access to any of the meeting information, like who attended or what was discussed.<p>Let us know what you think (and feel free to roast us).<p>Krishna

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gumboshoes11 months ago
I guess you&#x27;re going for the big corporation market with the pricing, although the manifesto says small biz &#x2F; bootstrap operations to me. Seems like a mismatch in messaging.<p>I&#x27;ve been using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mmhmm.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mmhmm.app</a> for this sort of video streaming embellishment. It&#x27;s pretty good though somewhat confusing, especially as they now have two products that are very similar but not identical. I believe one is replacing the other one but it&#x27;s not clear. Mmhmm is simpler to use than OBS, so of course not as feature-rich. OBS allows doing things with audio and you can also run different audio to mmhmm (such as from virtual channel — I do some audio cleanup to remove fan and traffic noise) and then output a mmhmm-specic audio device so that your audio and video are synced in Zoom&#x2F;Meet&#x2F;whatever.
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gumboshoes11 months ago
Two other pieces of software that operate in this space that are worth checking out: Meld Studio <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meldstudio.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meldstudio.co&#x2F;</a> and Camera Graph <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;camera-graph-edit-live-video&#x2F;id6450550518?mt=12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;camera-graph-edit-live-video&#x2F;i...</a> Camera Graph is more feature complete but costs $99 as of this writing for the full feature set. Meld Studio is free at the moment, but is still in development for macOS and Windows, and seems far less refined overall.
mufasam11 months ago
This looks really clean.<p>Question: are you planning for this to be an opinionated product or do you see Boom offering similar flexibility as OBS but with simpler setup?
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googletron11 months ago
Nice! Are the plans to move upstream into voice chat or recording software for demos?
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