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OpenLoom, a Loom alternative, with your own Supabase

OpenLoom, a Loom alternative, with your own Supabase

by anenthg·Mar 7, 2026·1 point·1 comment
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AI Analysis

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Self-hosted Loom via Supabase—records to your infra, no vendor lock-in, fully auditable.

Strengths
  • •Architecture eliminates the middleman entirely: browser APIs → user's Supabase → static GitHub Pages player, zero third-party servers.
  • •Open-source stack (extension + viewer + provisioning) is fully auditable; users own storage, billing, and data access rules.
  • •Supabase integration is friction-free for developers; Firebase and Convex support planned, shows multi-backend thinking.
Weaknesses
  • •Requires users to manage their own Supabase project—higher friction than Loom's signup, limits mainstream appeal.
  • •v0.1.0 is early; feature parity with Loom (timestamps, chapters, interactive hotspots) will take time.
Target Audience

Technical users, teams, and privacy-conscious professionals who want self-hosted screen recording infrastructure.

Similar To

Loom · Zight · Claap

Post Description

OpenLoom is a Chrome extension that records your screen using the browser's native Screen Capture and MediaRecorder APIs, composites a camera PIP overlay on a canvas, and uploads directly to your own Supabase project. No middleman server, no subscription, no vendor lock-in. The web player at openloom.live is a static site on GitHub Pages that fetches videos straight from your backend, it doesn't store or log anything. The entire thing is open source (extension, web viewer, provisioning flow), so you can audit every network request. Your recordings, your storage bucket, your rules. Do check it out and share your feedback!

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