can someone please explain what is so unique about startup like 'LOOM' ?

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨kalp1t@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.loom.com/

Altassian bought them a while back for 900 something million dollars. from what i understood they offer short video message service or video call/recording service something to companies. is this that big of an innovation? i am not working in tech so maybe i am missing something . anyone who used their service can shed some light into this?

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stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I doubt it was the innovation that made Atlassian buy the service, but the technology itself, they were interested in using that technology themselves and it was easier to just buy the tech rather than develop it in house.

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- unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Either that or prevent competition from forming.
  
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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m still trying to figure out Microscope Loops; stop confusing me!

And with 900 million dollars, I feel like I could have done some actual good in the world.

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fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Youtube for companies, what a innovative piece of software /s

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joytoy@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My fitness and life coach uses loom for communicating short messages to me since he primarily sends video messages. The subtitles and transcriptions feature is quite nice in my opinion since I can’t hear.

As a tool that bridges the gap between hearie and deaf, it’s invaluable to me. Innovative? Probably not but it’s easy enough for a gymbro to figure out how to use so it’s doing something the others are not.

Side note with a bunch of complaining: if the various messengers could add automatic captions and transcripts it would be nice and it’s disgraceful that none of the ones I use have done so yet. Until that happens I’ll keep getting loom links sent to me in video notes and being forced to use teams and zoom for remote calling.

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