VHS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Dec 11, 2025first mention
Aug 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I recommend VHS generally for these (we use them for all the ratatui screenshots generally)”
ratatui maintaineron “Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989”
“is a really good utility for automatically making these gifs”
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“You can script them with https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs”
“you might be interested in vhs”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App 1 mention
- Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing 1 mention
- Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 1 mention
- Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system 1 mention
- Show HN: Yapi – FOSS Terminal API Client for Power Users 1 mention
- Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library 1 mention
Also written as vhs. Data: vhs.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I've done VHS (terminal recording) rewrite in rust built on libghostty called Betamax”
“Looks like it's an opinionated wrapper around https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs”
“I recommend VHS generally for these (we use them for all the ratatui screenshots generally)”
“is a really good utility for automatically making these gifs”
“You can script them with https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs”
“you might be interested in vhs”