Vibe Coding a Loom.com Replacement with Claude Code in 30 Minutes | Episode #015

Sometimes the best tools come from paying attention to your own pain points. We spent $192 last month on Loom for screen recording, and while it's a great product, we asked ourselves a simple question: could we build what we actually need for less?

This episode is about that process. Mike and I walk through evaluating subscription tools, deciding what's worth keeping, and what's worth replacing. We built Unloom in public, a minimalist screen recording alternative that does exactly what we need without the monthly hit.

This isn't about reinventing wheels. It's about knowing when to stop paying for features you don't use and having the skills to do something about it.

What We Cover:

• The real cost of SaaS subscriptions and when to question them
• Why Loom works but why we needed something different
• Building Unloom: technical decisions, development process, and testing
• Innovation through constraints and minimalism
• The value of creating custom solutions for your actual needs
• Building tools in public and getting community feedback

Links:Try Unloom: https://cause-of-a-kind.github.io/unloom/Loom: https://loom.com

This is bootstrapping in action. When you have the skills and the time, you can turn cost problems into opportunities.

Forward to Extraordinary.