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Brilliant! So much faster and seamless than VNC. Already helped me two times today.

This is the first time I discover an app through a Youtube video recommendation. I was watching The Rest Is Science when this 1 minute video appeared on the right side with 230k views about a macOS app?? It got me curious for sure.

Claude got really good at making demo videos with Hyperframes apparently. Just did my own this week for Cling (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) and Clop (https://lowtechguys.com/clop) and users are already appreciating that they can discover app features through easy to digest video snippets.

Most people don't read the website copy at all unfortunately so I had to adapt. But I would never have the patience to do that in After Effects.

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> I was watching The Rest Is Science when this 1 minute video appeared on the right side with 230k views about a macOS app??

Do you have a link to this 1-minute video?

(a little later…) I think I found it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnNkfHLdFw

Yep here it is https://youtu.be/fJnNkfHLdFw

Cling and Clop look pretty cool, thanks for sharing these projects.

This is so funny to me - I was also watching The Rest is Science when that popped up and I watched it, shoutout TRiS literally my favorite podcast ever. The app is really good though, my only qualm is that I can’t seem to get rid of all the controls and only view the window on my phone on portrait mode, nor do keyboard shortcuts seem to work (modifiers not applying)

The nice thing about it being open source is you can point claude at it and fix them and run your own custom version. The bad part is you need to reinstall it every few days to keep it from expiring if you don't have an Apple developer account.

That thing about seeing only the desktop or window also bugs me out, I like how in RealVNC I can zoom to fill my phone with the Mac screen and move around with the zoom.

So glad I read this and found out about The Rest is Science.

> So much faster and seamless than VNC. Already helped me two times today.

Can you share how the experience different than the local screen recording via something like Screenshot App?

Not sure if we're talking about the same thing. I use this for clicking around my MacBook from my iPhone while I'm away. What you're describing is for recording videos of the phone .

I was trying to clarify your use case, which you've shared above.

> What you're describing is for recording videos of the phone .

I meant screen recording on a mac itself and not via a phone.

Anyway, thanks for your response. Your sites look great.

Thanks! Yes, I mostly need to change some setting with the system settings window or click on a dialog, and this is easier to use because it can show only that window and I don't have to log in or use a keyboard.

I wanted to look at your videos but they aren’t playing on my phone. Maybe it is noir? I would suggest embedding YouTube.

It has all the expected controls.

Pretty sure you’re interacting with a spammer. Look at their posts, they all have this robotic ad-reading discourse and link back to one of their websites.

Alternatively, they have had multiple past submissions on personal projects that have done well on HN, often (but not always) interact, and have English as a second or third language.

https://alinpanaitiu.com/

That doesn’t justify promoting their own websites in almost every comment. I interact with many people who don’t have English as their first language and none of them sound like an ad. Bot or not, linking to yourself every time you interact is spammer behaviour.

Is sharing now the new spamming? If I just say Cling people will have no idea what I mean. If I leave a link, people either will click and find something useful, or at least get some context on what I'm talking about or move along.

I get that we have to be skeptical nowadays with all the bots, but I would never have guessed that my day to day writing will be taken as robotic ad-reading.

> Is sharing now the new spamming?

No, of course not, that is a pretty bad faith interpretation of what I wrote. Making every post about one’s own things is spammer behaviour, though, and explicitly against the rules.

> I would never have guessed that my day to day writing will be taken as robotic ad-reading.

It did to me, and I deal with spam frequently. If it had just been the writing style I wouldn’t have said anything, it was the links always there that triggered alarm bells.

Got it. No worries. Have you ever had a friend at your place tell you in passing about a problem they recurrently have, and you have just the right tool to help them? And you can't help yourself and have to tell them about it?

That is my thinking on sharing these links to my work. I did something that helps me, and I want to see it helping others. Most of it is free.

There are no shop fronts for my work, no targeted ads, there are people that could benefit from it and me talking about it is one of the only ways to do that.

I myself found about Hyperframes from a comment like this, being in awe of what can be achieved with careful prompts and the right tooling. I struggled for years in DaVinci Resolve making stupidly high effort videos that looked amateurish and didn't convey the information I had in my head. I thought others might want to see that.

I get how seeing links in irrelevant comments can raise spam alarm bells, I thought I'm being useful and tried not to add links so often. But memory can be deceiving.

Fair. I believe you that you’re trying to be helpful and apologise for saying I was “pretty sure” you were a spammer.

I just realised I have actually paid for one of your apps (Lunar). I haven’t used it in a few years since it messed up the config on a monitor that I connected to which wasn’t mine, but I understand you have to be hacky with the app due to its nature and I believe you care to make it good.

Thanks for the Lunar purchase! Unfortunately the config messing up is done by the monitors themselves. All Lunar does is send standard DDC brightness, volume and contrast set commands, but some monitor firmwares change their presets and calibration completely when they get such a command. Impossible to know beforehand, DDC is a mess .

There's a play pause button at the bottom right of the page. Its possible you have Reduce Motion or Low Power Mode enabled? That pauses videos by default.

Youtube comes with an iframe and privacy concerns when embedding, I need full control of the playback of my own HTML5 videos.

Are you a creator of clop? I love the app, didn't realize they were on HN. Also windows support would be great.

Yes I made Clop, thanks! I won't be doing Windows apps anytime soon, I simply don't have a need for them and an app that I can't use daily will be a bad app.

Can you share more about your workflow with Hyperframes and Claude for demo videos? The clips for Cling are great!

Thanks! I started with the prompt from https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/sonnet-5-5#test-1-make-the-... which helped a lot in creating a general direction. The default output otherwise is that fast paced, epilepsy inducing AI slop that doesn't explain anything.

It helped to give it access to the app code and ability to screenshot its UI and interact with it.

I mostly list the features I want showcased because I know best what needs demoing and what looks good on video, and then let it do a full video. There's still a lot of slop on the first try but it's a much better start than what I'd do by hand.

Could you please share your prompt and what tools it used to make these videos? They are amazing.

I used Hyperframes and started with the prompt from https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/sonnet-5-5#test-1-make-the-...

Gave it full access to the app code and ability to screenshot its UI and interact with it so it knows what it really works like in real life.

And then listed some features for it to showcase and let it one shot it. It needed a lot of polishing after that, but the start was the 80% I needed to make this feel possible.

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