# CodeMic

11 Hacker News commenters recommended CodeMic and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Records VS Code coding sessions to share for following tutorials and learning real codebases, and it is open source. Critics note the video format feels awkward and some sessions fail to launch.

## Why people recommend it

- Useful for learning real codebases (3 comments): "It makes following tutorials and understanding real codebases much more practical than watching a video." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957076)) "I think CodeMic could be useful for this kind of long-form tutorials." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974334)) "Looks like a great idea, specially for learning" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974514))

## What people warn about

- Session fails to launch in VS Code (1 comments): "This looks great! I'm trying to open a video to test it out. My VSCode seems to open, but the session doesn't launch." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981351))
- Does not work on SteamOS (1 comments): "I could not make it work to watch a session from my vscode in steamos" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799998))
- Video format feels awkward (1 comments): "The video being a video, makes it a bit awkward though" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972677))

## Cite as

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