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 , but that requires you to go look. What you really want is a tap on the shoulder: "Hey, someone just watched your video." That's view notifications. We added them to SendRec so you get an email when someone watches your recording. But "email me when someone watches" sounds simple until you think about the edge cases. What if your video gets 50 views in an hour? What if you only care about the first view? What if you want a summary instead of a firehose? Four modes, not one We settled on four notification modes: Off — no notifications (the default) Every view — email on each view, instantly First view only — email when the first person watches, then silence Daily digest — one email per day at 9 AM UTC summarizing all views "Every view" is useful for a targeted recording — you sent a video to one person and want to know the moment they watch it. "First view" works for team announcements — y