Vibecode Guidde
track this build5 steps, step by step0%The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Guidde, turn a captured workflow into a narrated step-by-step video guide. The hard boundary is browser capture, ai voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features, plus capture polish, hosting, and collaboration.
You are building a lean indie version of Guidde. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Guidde indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Guidde workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - browser capture, AI voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features - instant hosted sharing - viewer analytics - team libraries - cross-device capture If those capabilities are essential, use Cap instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Guidde in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, ffmpeg, and SQLite; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Offer screen, window, or region capture plus optional microphone audio. Show an always-visible recording timer and make stop available from the tray. Create a non-destructive trim view with crop, zoom, cursor highlight, and text callouts. Render locally through ffmpeg with sensible H.264 and WebM presets. Generate a poster frame, transcript, and Markdown summary beside each video. Provide copy-file-path and reveal-in-folder actions instead of mandatory cloud upload. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out public cloud hosting. Deliberately leave out viewer identity and engagement analytics. Deliberately leave out enterprise workspaces and SSO. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - macOS or Windows screen-recording permission - microphone permission - ffmpeg - local disk space ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a lean indie version of Guidde. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Guidde indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Guidde workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - browser capture, AI voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features - instant hosted sharing - viewer analytics - team libraries - cross-device capture If those capabilities are essential, use Cap instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Guidde in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, ffmpeg, and SQLite; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Offer screen, window, or region capture plus optional microphone audio. Show an always-visible recording timer and make stop available from the tray. Create a non-destructive trim view with crop, zoom, cursor highlight, and text callouts. Render locally through ffmpeg with sensible H.264 and WebM presets. Generate a poster frame, transcript, and Markdown summary beside each video. Provide copy-file-path and reveal-in-folder actions instead of mandatory cloud upload. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out public cloud hosting. Deliberately leave out viewer identity and engagement analytics. Deliberately leave out enterprise workspaces and SSO. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - macOS or Windows screen-recording permission - microphone permission - ffmpeg - local disk space ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a production product version of Guidde. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== PRODUCT.md ===== # Guidde product brief ## Problem The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Guidde, turn a captured workflow into a narrated step-by-step video guide. The hard boundary is browser capture, ai voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features, plus capture polish, hosting, and collaboration. ## Product outcome Capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - macOS or Windows screen-recording permission - microphone permission - ffmpeg - local disk space ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - browser capture, AI voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features - instant hosted sharing - viewer analytics - team libraries - cross-device capture ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees. ===== ARCHITECTURE.md ===== # Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for Guidde in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, ffmpeg, and SQLite; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Offer screen, window, or region capture plus optional microphone audio. Show an always-visible recording timer and make stop available from the tray. Create a non-destructive trim view with crop, zoom, cursor highlight, and text callouts. Render locally through ffmpeg with sensible H.264 and WebM presets. Generate a poster frame, transcript, and Markdown summary beside each video. Provide copy-file-path and reveal-in-folder actions instead of mandatory cloud upload. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out public cloud hosting. Deliberately leave out viewer identity and engagement analytics. Deliberately leave out enterprise workspaces and SSO. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone. ===== MILESTONES.md ===== # Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations. ===== OPERATIONS.md ===== # Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Guidde capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
# Guidde indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Guidde workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - browser capture, AI voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features - instant hosted sharing - viewer analytics - team libraries - cross-device capture If those capabilities are essential, use Cap instead of pretending the gap is solved.
# Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".
# Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Guidde in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, ffmpeg, and SQLite; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Offer screen, window, or region capture plus optional microphone audio. Show an always-visible recording timer and make stop available from the tray. Create a non-destructive trim view with crop, zoom, cursor highlight, and text callouts. Render locally through ffmpeg with sensible H.264 and WebM presets. Generate a poster frame, transcript, and Markdown summary beside each video. Provide copy-file-path and reveal-in-folder actions instead of mandatory cloud upload. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out public cloud hosting. Deliberately leave out viewer identity and engagement analytics. Deliberately leave out enterprise workspaces and SSO. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - macOS or Windows screen-recording permission - microphone permission - ffmpeg - local disk space ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
# Guidde product brief ## Problem The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Guidde, turn a captured workflow into a narrated step-by-step video guide. The hard boundary is browser capture, ai voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features, plus capture polish, hosting, and collaboration. ## Product outcome Capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - macOS or Windows screen-recording permission - microphone permission - ffmpeg - local disk space ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - browser capture, AI voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features - instant hosted sharing - viewer analytics - team libraries - cross-device capture ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.
# Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for Guidde in an empty repository. Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, ffmpeg, and SQLite; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: capture a screen or window with microphone audio, trim the result, annotate key moments, and export a narrated step-by-step guide as a shareable local video. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Offer screen, window, or region capture plus optional microphone audio. Show an always-visible recording timer and make stop available from the tray. Create a non-destructive trim view with crop, zoom, cursor highlight, and text callouts. Render locally through ffmpeg with sensible H.264 and WebM presets. Generate a poster frame, transcript, and Markdown summary beside each video. Provide copy-file-path and reveal-in-folder actions instead of mandatory cloud upload. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out public cloud hosting. Deliberately leave out viewer identity and engagement analytics. Deliberately leave out enterprise workspaces and SSO. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.
# Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.
# Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.
# Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Guidde capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
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People still pay for Guidde because the recording itself is easy; the subscription removes upload, transcoding, sharing, organization, and support work. The recurring cost buys OS permissions, codecs, rendering performance, uploads, storage, links, and viewer analytics, not just the visible interface.
xbrowser capture, AI voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features
xinstant hosted sharing
xviewer analytics
xteam libraries
xcross-device capture
Guidde pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/user | $0/user | Up to 25 how-to videos; browser capture only; only the latest 25 remain editable after trial |
| pro | $29/user | $19/user | Unlimited videos; 1 brand kit; export; watermark removal |
| business | $59/user | $39/user | Up to 5 creators billed separately; unlimited text-to-speech; web and desktop capture; 5 brand kits; 180-day insights |
| enterprise | custom | — | Custom creators, security, analytics, support and procurement |
free tier25 how-to videos, browser capture only, and only the newest 25 remain editable
billingmonthly + annual; 7-day Business trial without a card; only content-creating roles are paid
hidden costsEvery Admin, Content Manager or Creator is a paid seat; premium voices, voice cloning, avatars and translation are separately metered add-ons.
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Vibecode Guidde
Kinda. The core of Guidde is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: browser capture, AI voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features, instant hosted sharing. Read the honest list above before committing.
How much does Guidde cost?
Guidde costs about $29/month (Pro, checked 2026-08-14), which is $348 per year.
What do I lose by replacing Guidde?
Honestly: browser capture, AI voice and text, templates, hosting, and team knowledge features; instant hosted sharing; viewer analytics; team libraries; cross-device capture. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Guidde?
Yes: Cap (Open-source screen recording and sharing product with modern desktop architecture.). Using prior art is also vibecoding; the prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.