Building a Free Screen Recorder as a Solo Dev — Here’s What I Learned This Week

I’ve been building Showesome Screen Recorder as a solo dev.

This week taught me a lot:

• People love tools with no signup wall

• Zoom + highlight turned out harder than expected

• Chrome’s capture APIs are messier than they look

• Growth is slow, but the feedback is gold

• Simple UX beats fancy UI every time

I’m sharing this in case anyone else is building tools in the browser-extension world.

If you’ve built browser extensions before, I’d love to hear:

What helped you get your first wave of users?

Also happy to share deeper technical details if anyone’s curious.