Related: Show HN: I developed an app that creates interactive product demos in minutes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33133231 - Oct 2022 (31 comments)
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Tell HN: I just reached 10 paying customers after 2 weeks of the public launch
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Re: Tell HN: I just reached 10 paying customers after 2 weeks of the public launch
#12Thanks for sharing your initial success and description of your process. Your product and landing page looks really solid! (Safari, MacOS, Desktop)
Thank you. I am glad you liked Supademo!
Take it for a spin when possible.
Re: Tell HN: I just reached 10 paying customers after 2 weeks of the public launch
#13Congrats
Thank you.
Re: Tell HN: I just reached 10 paying customers after 2 weeks of the public launch
#14This is very very nice. Simple and straightforward. I just gave it a try with my niche little company react web-app project. It really did only take me several minutes to make a polished looking demo.
The best part to me was the way you simplified the cursor movement in the demo and made those stage-bars appear on the bottom. IMHO that's your core feature there. The only snag was that it wasn't immediately obvious to me that those stage-bars are something I'm supposed to click on. There was a brief second that I didn't quite get it - something about the way they transform on hover. (And I just now figured out that also clicking on the hotspot texts moves the slideshow forward.)
If I were you I would do some IRL user tests with difficult tech-illiterate Mom-type users. As a subscriber of this product I would want the peace of mind that all my clients are going to just "get" it and that I can work it in seamlessly into my stack.
That being said, it's clear to me that this is being developed based on user testing with a batch of existing paying users.
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#15Curious about the rest of your tech stack using Next.js. What other parts helped you to ship fast?
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#16Have you done user testing on these? It seems fairly likely that many people won't know to click on the balloon text to advance the demo.
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#17Congratulations. That's such a good feeling huh? Now you just need to hang on to them, double them every month ... The fact that you get good feedback you can act on is gold.
Thank you. Really a great feeling. The initial feedback from our users was super helpful in fine-tuning the Supademo.
What was your process or strategy for aggregating the feedback?
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#18Nicely done and simple!
Perhaps not product direction - but I would suggest it anyhow; It would be awesome to explore making it an onboarding / interractive / guided self-serve walkthrough pilot with checklists and such. That's a better product for SAAS model in the longterm - making interactive demo recording a feature and a tool for metrics collection etc.
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#19The fact that I can upload images and gifs to create demos made this useable for me as my demo I'm trying to create is for desktop software. Looks really solid, I'll likely convert to a paid customer once I have a bit more time tinkering.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you. Really a great feeling. The initial feedback from our users was super helpful in fine-tuning the Supademo.
What was your process or strategy for aggregating the feedback?
I felt the best way to get feedback from users was by speaking with them directly.
I used email and LinkedIn DMs to set up feedback calls from our users.
Few of them directly sent their suggestions through written responses in emails and DMs.
We also recently set up https://feedback.supademo.com to collect feedback.