Loom
Quick video messages instead of meetings
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Free tier, paid from $12.50/mo
Loom lets you record quick screen + face videos instead of scheduling meetings. Insanely useful for async teams. Started bootstrapped on maxed credit cards, grew to 10M+ users, sold to Atlassian for $975M in 2023. The free tier is still generous enough for most solo use.
What's good
- Record screen + face video and share a link in under 60 seconds
- Free tier gives you 25 videos up to 5 minutes each
- Replaces meetings that should have been an email (or a video)
Watch out for
- Owned by Atlassian since 2023 — some features are being gated to paid plans
- Videos longer than 5 minutes require a paid plan ($12.50/month)