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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
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.
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:
nitter.cf/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:
nitter.cf/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:
nitter.cf/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:
nitter.cf/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
