I built a screen recorder you buy once for $29, no subscription, videos go to your own Google Drive
Hey IH,
We got tired of paying Loom every month to record our own screen, on our own machine, with our own voice.
So we built walkthrough.cc.
The problem we kept hitting:
Every screen recorder either charges you monthly or holds your videos hostage on their servers. Cancel your subscription, lose your files. Their cloud goes down, your links break. It's a subscription to access your own recordings.
That felt wrong.
What we built:
Walkthrough is a browser-based screen recorder. You hit record, capture your screen and webcam, stop and get a shareable link instantly. The video saves directly to your own Google Drive. We never touch your files.
One more thing: the link auto-updates. Edit the video after sending it and everyone who has the link sees the changes automatically. No re-sharing needed.
The Pricing model:
$29 once. No subscription. No seats. No renewal you forgot to cancel. Lifetime updates.
What we are looking for:
Honest feedback. Is the positioning clear? Is $29 the right price? Would you buy this?
Try it at walkthrough.cc
#screencasting #saas #buildinpublic #indiehacker #googledrive
People underestimate the importance of non-custodial software, and that's where we're all heading.
This app is genuinely useful for small teams wanting to quickly share screen-recordings between them. True utility in a world of overcomplications.
"Non-custodial software" that's exactly the framing we've been looking for and couldn't articulate as cleanly. Stealing that.
And yes, small teams passing recordings around without setting up accounts, managing permissions, or worrying about link expiry. That's the core use case. Glad it landed.
The Google Drive piece is interesting because it changes what you're really competing against.
If users trust you because of ownership, they're buying something very different from a cheaper Loom.
I'd be curious whether the strongest buyers are attracted by the one-time price or by the idea that the recordings never belong to a vendor in the first place.
That's exactly the distinction we've been sitting with.
Early signal from our paying customers suggests it's the ownership angle more than the price. The one-time payment is what gets their attention but "my videos live in my Google Drive, not your servers" is what actually closes it.
The pricing almost works as a trust signal. If we're not charging monthly, we have no incentive to hold your data hostage. That logic seems to land more than the dollar amount itself.
Still validating it, but that's the hypothesis we're building around.
Interesting.
The reason I asked is that those two explanations can end up pulling positioning in very different directions, even when the same customer says both.
Happy to share the fuller thought if useful. What's the best email to reach you on?
Can't post email here yet, new account restriction. Find me on X @HashamBuilds, happy to continue there. Looking forward to it.
I don't use X, so I sent it to the [email protected] address I found on your website.
Hope it reached you.
Just checked. Not received. can you send it to other email address ? just replace the "hello" with "support". the rest stays the same.
Dropped you an email.
Got it, checking now, thanks for tracking it down.