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Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by fragmede »

tomgs wrote: post #168
peteforde wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because every project is different. Because the first person to say a number in a negotiation tends to lose. Because maybe they aren't selling five minute videos. The point is not ever to create five minutes of video. The point is to clearly explain what a product does, and that process is going to be wildly different depending on whether the product makes any fucking sense. You usually don't know if you're going to…

Oh, I should have 100% said this instead. Yeah, yeah, scrap what I said - let's go with Pete.

He's hired! :p

All of what Pete says is true. I'm just putting forth that having a ballpark number is useful frame of reference because you don't know how many people aren't calling because they don't want to engage with the unknown so I think you're losing more business than you think. But, it doesn't sound like you're short business in the first place, so what I'm saying isn't relevant.

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by tomgs »

fragmede wrote: post #171
tomgs wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I should have 100% said this instead. Yeah, yeah, scrap what I said - let's go with Pete.

He's hired! :p All of what Pete says is true. I'm just putting forth that having a ballpark number is useful frame of reference because you don't know how many people aren't calling because they don't want to engage with the unknown so I think you're losing more business than you think. But, it doesn't sound like you're short business in the first place, so what I'm saying isn't relevant.

Can one ever really be long on new business? :)

As the greatest singer in our generation said so succinctly in one of her latest hits:

Yeah, my receipts be lookin' like phone numbers If it ain't money, then wrong number

It's kind of like that for me, if phone numbers were five digits!

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by bawabawa »

ImHereToVote wrote: post #29
jasperstory wrote: post #16

That one is ScreenStudio - it's a great product! I'm a founder at Yarn (YC W24) – we're building in this space and launching on HN soonish. We often see teams combining ScreenStudio with products like iMovie, AfterEffects, or Veed. Other products in the space to check out are Tella.tv, Kite, or Descript. For more advanced motion graphics, you'll often need a freelancer or agency. Feel free to drop me a message (email…

Mac only?

I work for https://www.canvid.com, and we recently released a beta version of our product, which is similar to Screen Studio but designed for Windows. If we see enough interest, we may even release a Linux version around Q3.

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by pando11 »

purple-leafy wrote: post #149
pando11 wrote: post #48

Hi everyone! I'm the CEO of Arcade (who a few people have already mentioned...thanks!). +1 to that being ScreenStudio. Sometimes people import ScreenStudio videos into Arcade to add branching, annotations, and get analytics about who is engaging with the tool. We're about to announce a big release on May 17th which will be very relevant - we're going to show how you can capture beyond the browser and get even more po…

Hey mister Arcade CEO, from a fellow entrepreneur and extension developer (there are dozens of us!), have you found any pros/cons of building in the extension space versus a typical web app? I basically exclusively build extensions because I strongly believe most startups and devs overlook the space

Sorry for the delay here. Extensions are great. There's plenty of examples in this space that have become big companies (Loom, etc.) Chrome also has the highest market share, and even upstarts like Arc Browser are built on Chromium so they work on those platforms. The only real downside is that they're difficult to test and deploy frequently (there's always a lag between pushing a new update and it being deployed, unlike when you own your own release schedule) so it's annoying to constantly have to discover when your extension was updated.

P.S. It's ms. ceo ;)

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by pando11 »

lakomen wrote: post #72
bellwether wrote: post #11

https://arcade.software is a different solution in the same category.

The carousel on top does some weird flashing on Android Chrome.

lakomen, can you email me at caroline AT arcade.software with a video with more details? The team can't easily repro this on their Android.

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by pando11 »

pando11 wrote: post #48

Hi everyone! I'm the CEO of Arcade (who a few people have already mentioned...thanks!). +1 to that being ScreenStudio. Sometimes people import ScreenStudio videos into Arcade to add branching, annotations, and get analytics about who is engaging with the tool. We're about to announce a big release on May 17th which will be very relevant - we're going to show how you can capture beyond the browser and get even more po…

It's live! Check it out here: https://www.arcade.software/build-like-its-2024

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by tomgs »

peteforde wrote: post #169
tomgs wrote: post #105

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I actually do that as a service for companies: https://syntaxcinema.dev I think that product tutorials are somewhat of a black art. On the one hand you have: 1. Keeping the flow moving and the video fast-paced and interesting 2. Adding aftereffects and other visual niceties 3. Pointing out the relevant bits with zooms, highlights, etc... But on a deeper level, you also have questions of: 1. Am I using the right sampl…

I love everything about this. Your site looks great. Your service is very needed. My only advice is to stop apologizing for not offering pricing on your website, both here and on your website. Seriously: cut it out. Go right now and remove those What you do is the literal best-case scenario for value based pricing. After having read "The Win Without Pitching Manifesto" by Blair Enns, some of the comments on this thre…

Love this - went ahead and implemented the comments with a few extra niceties.

Thanks brother!

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