Video Tap

When I bought this in June, it created great Blog posts with screenshots. I upgraded to Tier 3 to be able to use Claude 3 Opus, which was a guaranteed feature in the Appsumo terms. We briefly received it and the Blogposts got even better. From a 10 minute video (2000 words) it created the best blogpost with screenshots I had seen (tutorials), with 1200 words.

Then the refund window had closed. And they destroyed the product:
- An "upgrade" took away the Claude 3 Opus we had paid for on Tier 3. They confirmed it in the questions. This slightly degraded the Blog post quality, but since we could use a custom prompt, I worked several hours to refine the custom prompt to get useful Blog posts again.

- While we later got a few additional outputs like LinkedIn and E-Mail templates (medicore quality, useless for me) and an improved shorts generator (every free tool and their dog generates shorts now), the Blog post quality then rapidly declined last fall:

- Right now, it only generates 650 - 700 word blog posts, even from very detailed 15 minute video with 3000 words (when it was good, it created 1200 words from a 10 minute/2000 words tutorial).
- The quality is now low. It sounds boring and too many important details are missing. It was great before, but is destroyed now (seems they've switched to an even cheaper model after already switching down from the Claude 3 Opus we had been promised lifetime access to).
- Event he automatic screenshots are gone now. Not a single one is included, I have to click and add them myself.

This has been like this for several months. I patiently waited for improvement. It never came.

I also got videotoblog, which is from a single person developing it. It was on par with videotap last June, but now it got even better and keeps improving. I understand the videotap developers have no interest in further developing their tool after ending their AppSumo sale (last update in changelog is from October). But they should at least have kept it at the level they sold it too us. They have completely destroyed the blogpost functionality, it's just useless crap now.

Not only did I pay several hundred dollars for Tier 3, I also spend days learning the nuances of the tool, tweaking the blog posts and so on. It's all lost now, the money and the time.

They waited till the refund window closed, then took away features mentioned in the deal term (e. g. Claude 3 Opus), and it's completely useless now. Unfortunately, they claim to still be in business and the site is still accessible, so we are not even covered under the AppSumo select guarantee: we can still access the tool — it just does not do what it did when we bought it anymore, and we don't get the features we paid for. This is fraud.