You don't know how people
use your app.

You shipped it — maybe with Lovable, v0, Bolt, Cursor, or Replit — faster than you could instrument it. You clicked through every page. It works on your machine, with your assumptions, following the path you designed.

But you are not your user.

You don't know which button they look for first. You don't know that they missed the signup form because it was below the fold. You don't know they clicked "Submit" three times because nothing happened the first two.

You don't know any of this because you've never watched a stranger use your app without you in the room.

Asking doesn't work.

Friends and family will tell you it's great. They're being kind, not honest.

Screen-share calls change behavior. People perform when they know you're watching.

Surveys measure what people say they do. Not what they actually do.

Analytics platforms cost $50-500/mo, take days to configure, and are built for teams with a data analyst. You don't have one.

What you actually need

Send a link to 5 real people. Let them use your app with no guidance, no pressure, no camera. Then watch what happened.

That's it. That's the whole method. The only question is whether you have a way to record what they did.

What you learn from 5 sessions

-Which page they land on vs. which page they actually want

-Where they click first (it's never where you think)

-The exact moment they get confused and start clicking randomly

-How long they stay before they give up

-Whether they find the thing you built the whole app around

Before and after

Before

"I think the onboarding flow is intuitive."

"Most users probably click the main CTA."

"The checkout works, I tested it myself."

"People seem to like it based on the feedback I got."

After 5 sessions

"3 out of 5 users skipped onboarding entirely."

"Nobody clicked the main CTA. They all used the nav."

"Two users rage-clicked the checkout button. It was broken on Safari."

"Average session was 47 seconds. I expected 3 minutes."

How GhostView works

One script tag. No SDK. No config file. No account for your testers.

Add a script tag to your app. One line of HTML.

Generate invite links. Each tester gets a unique, anonymous ID.

Send the links. Testers use your app normally. No login, no install, no camera.

Watch the recordings. See every click, scroll, and page visit.

Run AI synthesis. One click to get patterns across all sessions.

What it costs

Nothing. GhostView is free to use right now.

No credit card. No trial that expires. No feature gates. You get session recordings, event tracking, data export, and AI synthesis.

This will change eventually. But right now the goal is to make this useful, not to make money. If you use it and it helps, that's the deal.

Try it on your app.

Set up takes 90 seconds. Invite one person. Watch what happens. If the recording doesn't surprise you, nothing lost.

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