r/screenrecorders

Disclosure: I built TuringShot, so this is a developer self-promo post. I am posting it here because the productivity gain came from changing the workflow, not switching recorders.

My old screen recording workflow had a hidden second job:

1. Record the tutorial or product demo.

2. Open the editor.

3. Add zooms where the UI was too small.

4. Add boxes or highlights where the viewer might get lost.

5. Fix fast cursor movement.

6. Rewatch the whole thing to catch the moments that were unclear.

That cleanup felt normal until I realized the real bottleneck was earlier. The screen was not clear while I was recording, so editing became damage control.

So I built TuringShot, a live screen-effects layer for macOS. It is not a recorder. It sits on top of the recorder or meeting tool you already use - OBS, ScreenFlow, QuickTime, Zoom, Meet, Loom - and makes the explanation visible during the take.

What it can do live:

- Live / Snap Zoom that follows the cursor

- Focus Highlight that dims everything else

- Magnifier Lens for small UI and text

- Pointer Trail so fast mouse moves are easier to follow

- Screen Drawing for quick boxes and arrows

- On-Screen Text Memo for live notes

- Key Display so viewers can see shortcuts

Current version: TuringShot 1.5.10 (Build 42). The latest update stabilizes Focus Highlight after monitor resolution or scaling changes.

The productivity lesson for me: the useful product was not "screen zoom." It was removing a repeated editing step from every tutorial, demo, and walkthrough.

Site / demo: turingshot.site

Small launch code if you want to try the premium effects: TURINGSHOT199. It makes the yearly plan $1.99 for the first year instead of $2.99. New subscribers only, 500 redemptions, expires Dec 23, 2026.

Question for this sub: for screen-based work, do you prefer making things clear live while recording, or fixing clarity later in the edit?

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Hi, I made Sel, a native macOS app for sharing and presenting your screen. Most screen sharing shows your whole desktop. Sel lets you choose what appears:

• Pick specific windows and arrange them on a canvas
• Crop and resize each window, and set a clean background
• Save arrangements as named scenes and switch between them during a sharing session
• Draw on screen while presenting (pen, highlighter, shapes, text, etc)
• Zoom to the cursor to show detail
• Webcam overlay
• Record or take a screenshot in one click, then drag the file anywhere

Pricing: there is a free tier to try it, and a one-time unlock for the full version (no subscription).

It is a solo project, and I'd really value your feedback on the workflow and what's missing!

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macOS's built-in screen recorder doesn't include system audio bydefault - it only records from the mic. But if you install a virtual audio device, macOS treats it as just another microphone, so anything playing on your Mac flows into the recording alongside the video.

I made a short video showing how AudioRoute's audio device (disclosure: I built it) can be used with the macOS screen recorder to include system audio in the recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzJMdb2tPb0

Happy to answer questions.

Discalimer: I didn't use AI to clean up the writing. Apologies for any typos in advance.

Hey all, for context, I am a growth marketer and I have been working in 0 to 1 SaaS stages for the last 10 years. I have worked across 3 SaaS companies so far

• Company 1 - 0 to $100K in revenue
• Company 2 - MVP to 1M users
• Company 3 - (current role) 40K users across 5K companies in first year

Since a lot of you posted about how to get customers, I hope this will be of some help. 

1. Community Led Growth

When I joined this company, the product was still in development. But we knew we were gonna target Sales and Marketing folks. So, I did two things. Start a Facebook Community and Start a Newsletter. 
The community was completely about Sales and Marketing and it spoke nothing about the product. This was our top of the funnel. 
While building the product, I used to share screenshots, ask for feedback on layouts and colors and ask them to subscribe to the weekly newsletter. 
I also ran a few lead magnets (this was back in 2019 and it was huge). And converted folks from other socials to the newsletter. 
By the time we were ready to launch the product, the newsletter had 11,000 subscribers. 
The key is to keep the community active and avoid spam. You might spend an hour to 90 mins to do the mod work and invite people to the community. 
On launch day, we had 150 sign-ups in the first few hours. We reached 1000+ users in the first week. 

1. Product Led Growth

In the second company, they were building a new product. The Product Growth model was already established. We launched a simple product with one feature. Gave a great free plan but gamified it to unlock features. Our focus was not on activation but driving credibility. 
The gamification revolved around Reviews, sharing on socials and testimonials. We used this leverage to build a strong organic presence by focusing on bottom of funnel content. If you enter an industry where there are already more than 10 dominant players, you can easily win customers by focusing heavily on listicles, comparison articles and strong UGC. Every strong product or leaders has a bunch of users who are unhapphy and looking to switch. 
Tweetdeck was heavily used to filter keywords and engage in every post mentioning our competition with evidence based responses from the reviews we collected. 
We used a different strategy to scale for enterprise but I will cover it in a different post. 

1. Feedback Led Growth

It is dadan.io, an AI video creation platform and to level up the challenge this is a company based out of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The first from the country to build their major market share in US. 
We launched it globally in April 2025. Currently, over 5000 companies and 40,000 users use this product. 
We started focusing on external communities to get the initial users and from previous experience, focusing on bottom of funnel content. There is a platform called TAAFT (there is an AI for that) which brought quite a bit of users but they didn’t convert into paid users. 
Later in July, we launched a lifetime deal initially in the product (I will cover lifetime deals in a future post). This gave us a quick spike in users (~2000). 
Our goal was to collect as much feedback as possible and shape the roadmap based on what the users are happy to pay for. 
We spoke to over 250 users in 2 months via one-on-one calls. These are all paying customers. We then requested reviews and testimonials once they have tried the product. Instead of focusing on multiple review sites, we solely focused on G2 platform. We quickly climbed to 22nd place in the category, taking the lead in multiple categories. 
The second was AI citations, where we requested users to share about the product and use case on their personal LinkedIn. Currently, these are picked up by AI engines. AI citations are the third biggest acquisition channel for us. 
We also created a community around them and replicated the first growth model here. Every feature we release are now pre-validated. Which means there is no guesswork in whether people would pay for it or not. 

I know many here are solopreneurs, but if there is something you can pick that suits your growth curve, great. 
One key learning has been about building distribution. Your goal with marketing should be sharing value and build distribution capability amongst your target users. If you can achieve that there is no stopping. 

I am looking to write this as a series covering the following topics, if you have any feedback, please share. 

1. Case study - Dadan 40K users in one year
2. Case study - How AI citations became our 3 highest acquisition channels
3. Case study - Building a differentiator in a saturated market
4. Should you do a lifetime deal - Everything to know
5. Channels people often miss when converting users

 

Users can now erase elements in the browser before capture the page. I think that is a pretty nice feature if you want to hide elements with sensitive data or remove annoying stuff in the image.

Would be great with some feedback or ideas on improvements.
Pagemonster:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fkhhklgmnagnifabpmekledlbkcejnkb?utm_source=item-share-cb

It's extremely simple to use, just click on it from the top bar on your Mac and paste in your text.

Try it here: https://github.com/JayChauhan2/teleprompter