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

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Post by mickgardner »

tiffanyz wrote: post #7
nickphx wrote: post #3

Interesting idea, congrats on putting it all together. Do you have any working examples of the end result? The landing page only had a few screen shots and it was not entirely clear to me what the results looked like. Are users able to export or copy the created guides? Are user accounts required to view the created guides?

Definitely! Here's a Scribe I recently created to show all the different ways you can share your Scribe: https://scribehow.com/shared/Sharing-your-Scribe-with-others... User accounts are not required to view Scribes, and yes, users are able to export and copy the created guides.

Are the guides all PDF or HTML? Or can the guides be videos too? You mention 'Markdown' export, do those include images etc?

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

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Post by tiffanyz »

jasonpeacock wrote: post #17

Is this a desktop app, a hosted solution, or self-hosted? For work use, we need on-premise only and can’t have internal tools exposed/captured by external tools.

We have a desktop app and a browser extension, but all Scribes are hosted on AWS. We do offer a few export options which would enable you to take the Scribes "offline" after creating them, but in those cases the Scribes wouldn't be "living" docs

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

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Post by tiffanyz »

mickgardner wrote: post #21
tiffanyz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely! Here's a Scribe I recently created to show all the different ways you can share your Scribe: https://scribehow.com/shared/Sharing-your-Scribe-with-others... User accounts are not required to view Scribes, and yes, users are able to export and copy the created guides.

Are the guides all PDF or HTML? Or can the guides be videos too? You mention 'Markdown' export, do those include images etc?

Yes - all Scribes contain images (no video, though you can combine steps to generate GIFs). If you want to see what the end product looks like you can check out our gallery: https://scribehow.com/gallery

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

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Post by DougWebb »

I skimmed very quickly, and this seems pretty similar to the Windows built-in tool Problem Steps Recorder. I assume it's cross-platform, which is a nice advantage. Any other big differences?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/record-steps-to-...

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

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Post by tiffanyz »

GordonS wrote: post #18
tiffanyz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Product Hunt was really impactful, especially since we continue to see ripple effects from that community. Up until very recently, that's actually the only real marketing we've done!

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

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Post by tiffanyz »

mohanmcgeek wrote: post #14
apodolny wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

All Scribes are hosted on AWS. We do offer a few export options which would enable you to take the Scribes "offline" after creating them, but in those cases the Scribes would no longer be "living" docs
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