Shadab Alam

Shadab Alam is an indie hacker based in India who has been building and launching small products since 2020. By Shadab's own count, more than a dozen shipped products did not work out, and Shadab writes openly on X about the lessons from both the failures and the wins.

The best-known project is CursorClip, a native macOS screen recorder that automatically adds smooth zooms and pans to recordings and sells as a one-time lifetime license instead of a subscription. Shadab co-founded it and focused almost entirely on marketing: pre-sales opened on 1 September 2025, and over the following seven months they worked Reddit, X, lifetime-deal sites, directories and SEO content to find customers. Shadab says they took it from zero to more than $4,000 in sales before exiting the product, and later published a long write-up on the lessons that period held about early-stage marketing.

Shadab also tried ThreadRank, a service for placing helpful product recommendations in high-intent Reddit threads, which they describe as a recent failure. The current project is TraceSig, a lead-source attribution tool that captures the campaign, landing page and referrer behind each website form submission and passes it into a company's CRM.