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Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows

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Re: Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows

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Post by tiffanyz »

pca2 wrote: post #4
apodolny wrote: post #2

Hey all, looking forward to hearing your feedback on Scribe - a browser extension and desktop app that automatically generates step-by-step guides for any GUI-based process you choose to record on your computer. Me and my cofounder originally set out to build an RPA tool. Along the way, we discovered that the bigger problem most teams were facing had to do with capturing and sharing each individual’s specialized know…

As someone who's documented a lot of users flows by hand this would be a really handy service. However, it'd be great if there was more of a demo available without a sign up. At the moment it seems like there's just a couple of tiny screeenshots and a single GIF showing what your product actually looks like. How about a sample screencast or a sample PDF of a finished guide?

for sure, check out our gallery: https://scribehow.com/gallery to view Scribes (you don't need an account to view them)

Re: Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows

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Post by tiffanyz »

GordonS wrote: post #10
apodolny wrote: post #2

Hey all, looking forward to hearing your feedback on Scribe - a browser extension and desktop app that automatically generates step-by-step guides for any GUI-based process you choose to record on your computer. Me and my cofounder originally set out to build an RPA tool. Along the way, we discovered that the bigger problem most teams were facing had to do with capturing and sharing each individual’s specialized know…

How long have you been running for - I see you have more than 10,000 companies using Scribe, which is amazing! Echoing what another person here said, I'd really like to see some decent examples of the end result - I love the idea of Scribe, but a small screenshot and a small gif really isn't hooking me in to spend the time to find out more.

hey there! sorry about that - you can check out what the end product looks like on our gallery: https://scribehow.com/gallery

the team has been building this product quietly over the past year and a half, and we launched last month on PH.

Re: Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows

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Post by mohanmcgeek »

apodolny wrote: post #6
pugworthy wrote: post #5

edit Why didn't you just send people to https://scribehow.com/ ? It explains the product so much. I'd love to see some examples of this other than just little animations on the main screen. Right now it's just simple animations and a request to register. The world is full of "solutions", as is my inbox from products I had to sign up for just to see what it did. Not sure I want to bother with that barrier to entry jus…

Hi — sorry about that. If you want to see some example Scribes, there's a gallery with some basics here: https://scribehow.com/gallery . The real difference here is how these are made.

I saw this on producthunt the other day. This would really save hours of my team's time!

My first question when I saw this was if the produced documentation was persisted in scribehow's servers and if it would ever work on pages not accessible from open web

Re: Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows

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Post by fishtoaster »

Well this is really neat. As an engineer at a tiny startup "How do I do X in " is a common refrain. I'm already pitching this internally - if this significantly cuts down on the time I spent writing up directions for people (and the time they spend being confused by my incomplete directions), it'll be worth its weight in gold. :)

Re: Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows

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Post by GordonS »

tiffanyz wrote: post #13
GordonS wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How long have you been running for - I see you have more than 10,000 companies using Scribe, which is amazing! Echoing what another person here said, I'd really like to see some decent examples of the end result - I love the idea of Scribe, but a small screenshot and a small gif really isn't hooking me in to spend the time to find out more.

hey there! sorry about that - you can check out what the end product looks like on our gallery: https://scribehow.com/gallery the team has been building this product quietly over the past year and a half, and we launched last month on PH.

Wow, I'd love to read about how you managed to get 10,000 customers in such a short time? How much of that would you attribute to ProductHunt?

Re: Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows

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Post by tiffanyz »

pugworthy wrote: post #12

I was assuming at first from the examples that this was just for web based applications. But I see it also supports desktop apps. Which OS? I'm being picky but I'm also pretty intrigued. The idea is quite nice.

our desktop app works on Mac and Windows :)
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