04 / Case study 2026
Tape
Screen capture for bug reports and demos. Press record, press stop, get a clean MP4 — no timeline, no editor, no account.
Preview / coming soon
The idea
Every screen recorder now wants to be an editor. Tape is the opposite: a small capture tool that produces a file and gets out of the way.
The build
Frames are encoded as they arrive and written straight to disk, so a twenty-minute recording uses roughly the same memory as a twenty-second one. The preview stays low-resolution on purpose.
- Region, window or full-screen capture
- Streams to disk while recording — no memory blow-up
- Hardware-accelerated encoding where available
- Outputs a standard MP4 other tools can open
The hard part
The unsolved part is permissions. Every browser and operating system treats screen capture differently, and the failure modes are quiet. That is most of the remaining work.
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