# Claude-replay

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Claude-replay and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Plays back Claude Code sessions like a video, so people can learn techniques, onboard teammates and share demos.

## Why people recommend it

- Teaching and onboarding teammates (4 comments): "Slowing it down to show the back-and-forth, and to let the viewer absorb and internalize the techniques behind each "prod," is vital!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290067)) "This is amazing for getting new team members onboarded with Claude Code processes and tools I use." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283146)) "This might be useful for educating people on how to use these new tools" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278796))
- Sharing demos and sessions (2 comments): "Neat. Would be nice if I could easily drop the replayer into a slack thread." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279074)) "I've mostly been using it for demos and sharing sessions with teammates" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279252))

## What people warn about

- Long runs need skipping (1 comments): "you might want to skip over long runs and generations by default" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278971))
- Replays seem not particularly useful (1 comments): "Watching cc session replays doesn't seem particularly useful." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278610))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claudebin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claudebin.md): 12 recommend
- [Traces](https://hackerapproved.com/p/traces.md): 11 recommend
- [Entire Checkpoints](https://hackerapproved.com/p/entire-checkpoints.md): 6 recommend
- [Supafork](https://hackerapproved.com/p/supafork.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Claude-replay", https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-replay/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).