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Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Added an Email Gate to Shared Videos
You share a product demo with a prospect. The analytics show 5 views. But who watched? Did the...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Added Closed Captions to Embedded Videos
You record a product walkthrough, share the embed code, and a teammate drops it into a Notion page....

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Built Viewer Engagement Analytics Without a Tracking SDK
View counts tell you someone opened your video. They don't tell you if anyone actually watched it. A...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Added Call-to-Action Buttons to Shared Videos
You record a product demo and send it to a prospect. They watch the whole thing. Then they close the...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Found and Fixed a Hidden View Inflation Bug
You ship a notification feature and it works. People get emails when someone watches their video. The...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Added Per-Video Download Controls
When you share a screen recording with a client, you might not want them downloading the file. We...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Added Custom CSS Injection to Watch Pages
Color pickers cover the basics, but designers want full control. We added a custom CSS field that...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Added Camera Recording for Mobile Browsers
Screen recording on mobile doesn't work. getDisplayMedia — the API that powers screen capture — is...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Replaced MinIO with Garage for Self-Hosted S3 Storage
MinIO's licensing shift left self-hosters looking for alternatives. We migrated SendRec's storage...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Built a Nextcloud Integration for SendRec
Nextcloud has 400,000+ servers in the wild, most of them self-hosted by people who care about owning...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Added Custom Branding to Shared Video Pages
You record a product walkthrough, share the link with a prospect, and they land on a page with...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
1mo ago
How We Built View Notifications for Screen Recordings
You share a screen recording and wait. Did they watch it? You could check the analytics dashboard,...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
2mo ago
How We Added Real-Time Drawing Annotations to Screen Recordings
Screen recordings get better when you can point at things. Circle a button, underline text, draw an...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
2mo ago
How We Replaced Goroutines With a Database Queue for Video Transcription
In our last post about transcription, we showed how we added automatic video transcription with...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
2mo ago
How We Added Automatic Transcription With whisper.cpp
Async video has a discoverability problem. You record a 3-minute walkthrough explaining how the new...

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
2mo ago
How We Built Server-Side Video Trimming With ffmpeg
Client-side video trimming hits browser limits fast. Here's how we built server-side trimming with ffmpeg, async processing, and a custom timeline UI.

Dev.to · Alex Neamtu
2mo ago
What It Actually Costs to Run a SaaS on EU Infrastructure
We run 10 Docker containers serving a full production SaaS on a single Hetzner server for ~$6/month. Here's the full breakdown and why we skipped AWS entirely.
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