How We Added Onboarding, SEO, and Branding Enforcement to SendRec

A product can have great features but still lose users in the first thirty seconds. New users land on an empty Record page, see a button, and wonder: what happens next? Where do my videos go? Can anyone see them? We shipped SendRec v1.52.0 with four changes focused on growth and adoption: onboarding guides for new users, a robots.txt for search engine crawling, enforced branding for free-tier users, and a bug fix where deleted videos still counted toward the monthly quota. Onboarding empty states When a new user has zero videos, the Record, Upload, and Library pages now show a simple 3-step guide: Record your screen or upload a video Share the link with anyone Track views and get feedback The detection is straightforward — we already have a /api/videos/limits endpoint that returns videosUsedThisMonth . If it's zero, show the guide: { limits && limits . videosUsedThisMonth === 0 && ( < div style = { { maxWidth : 400 , margin : " 0 auto 24px " , padding : " 20px 24px " , background : " v