What we will not do.
Written down while they were still cheap to keep. One of them costs us a whole enterprise tier, which is rather the point of writing them down early.
Simple in front, power behind.
A viewer sees a video that plays. Every interactive layer is something the creator switched on, never a hoop the viewer meets first. If a feature makes the first three seconds worse for the person watching, it does not ship in that shape.
Free users share. Paid users convert.
Watching, sharing, reacting and commenting never gate, on any plan, forever. The paid layers are the ones that make you money: calls to action, forms, webinars, demos, the versions per viewer. A toll on somebody pressing play would be the easiest revenue in this category and we are not taking it.
Honest liveness.
Scheduled sessions use real timers and real registration. No fabricated attendee counts, no scripted chat activity. The cost of refusing is that our automated webinar looks less busy than a competitor's invented one, and we will pay that.
Personal data never lands in the public bucket.
Manifests and media are public objects. Registrations, form submissions, poll answers and questions go only to the Worker, keyed by share and viewer, readable only by the owner. Enforced in the architecture rather than promised in a policy page, because a policy page cannot fail closed.
ShowShot
No white-label. Ever.
Every player, share page and embed carries the mark at every price point, including the most expensive one. Each published video promotes the platform, and that loop is exactly why free shares can exist at all.
EXPIRES TOMORROW
Nothing is deleted quietly.
Free videos live 30 days. Before anything expires you get an email, a badge on the share page and a one-click download. No silent sweep, and nothing you have to buy back from us later.
And one that follows from the others.
Nothing re-renders. A thousand viewers of a dynamic video is a thousand versions and one file in storage, composited at playback. It is the reason the versions can live on a plan that does not charge per render, and the reason a viewer's own name is never written into a public object.
Record it once. Deliver it a thousand ways.
No card, no trial countdown, no seat to justify. Record something in the next ninety seconds and see what the link does.