Just shipped a nice little update to Rewatch that let's folks share videos directly with another person or group while keeping it private.

This is a quiet little feature, that started out as a back-end modeling exercise without any real UI. I came into the project a bit late, and used the opportunity to clarify some of our language and UI around the visibility of videos and how they're added to collections or shared with people.

One tricky thing that came up along the way was how we wanted to expose these videos that get shared with someone on the receiving end. We considered a bunch of options, including a dedicated "Shared with me" screen. Ultimately we arrived at a clever in-between by creating a smart collection of sorts, that only shows up in someone's list of collections once they've had a video shared with them. This option allowed us to lean on an existing pattern in the app, while also keeping the door open to upgrade it to a dedicated screen down the road if we see usage demanding that kind of priority.