Ask HN: Why isn't there a simple, seemless Windows screen recording app?

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  • ShareX

    ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

    • ShareX can do this!

    Lets you select a region + record with one hotkey, detects window borders and snap to those as regions, choose gif/mp4, and uploads to a variety of sites. Open source, too!

    https://getsharex.com/

  • ScreenToGif

    🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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