Show HN: Video-input, an HTML element that acts like a video form field

Neat demo, totally get what you're doing now. One note: The demo has audio feedback echo. Why would the demo play back the microphone's input?

Demo is super helpful! Looks great

That's correct! Since more and more people are working remotely, I've found a few cases where having a video presented of someone speaking their answer to a question is very helpful. What's been annoying is that the common approach is to set up a streaming solution or have someone upload a file they've recorded elsewhere.

What this does is enable someone to record directly on the site and then it takes the recording, converts it into a webm file, and uploads it... So the server gets a POST request with a media file attached. Much simpler to handle, at least for me.

I love that idea! Yes, anything with asynchronous video communications is a good place to start. This isn't a use case I considered but it's a perfect one.

Better still, the video field has a timer already so you can limit responses to a specific amount of time, just like a teacher would.

Hmmm... Good point! If you clone the repo you can definitely see "sample.html" but you are right, I should have a live demo.

I will post one shortly.