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Giving away 10 SmoothCut licences ($79 each).
It's the screen recorder I built: it zooms in on what you click and smooths your cursor, so a demo looks edited without editing. Mac and Windows.
Want one? Reply with what you'd record. I'll pick 10 on Friday.
Giveaway closed. Only one person entered, so @n0elmarian0 wins. DM me your email and the licence is yours.
Lesson for me: a giveaway needs an audience before it works. Building that next.
Week two after launch, honest numbers:
- 30% off for 5 days: 0 sales
- Giveaway of 10 free licences: 1 entry
- Total sales: 1
That one customer found 2 bugs. Fixed both same day, and he loves it.
Lesson: a discount can't sell what people haven't tried. @smoothcutstudio
It's free to download and use while you wait, exports included: smoothcut.studio
Winners get announced on @smoothcutstudio
Screen Studio is great. I still built an alternative:
- It's Mac-only. Almost half my users are on Windows.
- It's $108+/year. SmoothCut is $79 once.
- I wanted on-device captions, raw files for Resolve, and Claude driving it.
Same auto zoom. Different trade-offs.
Want to try it? Free to use, exports included. 30% off a licence until Nov 3 → smoothcut.studio
@smoothcutstudio
This is the whole idea behind SmoothCut:
Record your screen like you always do. It zooms in on what you click and smooths your cursor, automatically.
No keyframes, no editing. Mac + Windows, pay once.
30% off until Nov 3: smoothcut.studio
@smoothcutstudio
My only sale didn't come from Product Hunt, X or cold email.
It came from a link in a ChatGPT answer. Downloaded a minute later, paid 6 hours after.
So now I write for AI answers too: comparison pages, how-to guides, llms.txt.
Builders, where did your first sale come from?
Put an MCP server inside my screen recorder: now Claude, Cursor or VS Code can "record my screen", read the transcript, and "export my last recording as a GIF".
Local only (127.0.0.1 + a token), off by default.
How launch week went:
teapaw.org/cjsingg/status/2116032…
Founders: check what happens after the download.
Mine: ~30 downloads → 6 installs → 0 people made a video. My onboarding blocked you until 4 macOS permissions were granted.
Rebuilt it to explain each one first. Launch numbers and fixes:
teapaw.org/cjsingg/status/2116032…
Week one after launching my screen recorder on Product Hunt: 21 upvotes, ~15 downloads a day, 0 launch sales.
The leak wasn't traffic. ~30 downloads became 6 installs and 0 videos, because of 4 Mac permission prompts up front.
What I changed:
teapaw.org/cjsingg/status/2116032…
Launched SmoothCut on Product Hunt last week: 21 upvotes, 63 visitors on launch day, ~15 downloads a day, 0 sales from it.
Lesson: downloads aren't users. ~30 downloads → 6 installs → 0 videos. So I rebuilt onboarding.
Full breakdown:
teapaw.org/cjsingg/status/2116032…
Also shipped in launch week:
• Claude, Cursor and VS Code can drive it over MCP
• export the raw screen, camera and audio for Resolve
• recording timer in the Mac notch (DynamicLake)
• crash recovery
• an affiliate program that pays 50%
SmoothCut makes screen recordings look edited without editing: zooms on what you click, a smooth cursor, camera layouts, on-device captions.
Mac + Windows. Pay once.
30% off this week, until Nov 3:
smoothcut.studio
Updates: @smoothcutstudio
