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

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Post by jasperstory »

jamesbfb wrote: post #96
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…

I’m a dev lead who is a rusted on Linux user, I’ve always hated that ScreenStudio is Mac only since it’s a great product. Any plans for Linux support? I would love the ability to dem stuff and have it actually look pretty.

The problem is that a lot of the details requires macOS accessibility permissions (identifying active window, measuring cursor movements), so there's non-trivial platform specific code.

For product demos specifically, best bet might be a Chrome-extension-based product like Arcade!

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Post by jasperstory »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #66
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…

ScreenStudio looks nice. And thank god a pay once app.

Yep although to be precise it's a pay-for-a-year-of-updates model, and the underlying macOS APIs in this space change significantly between minor and major macOS releases, so ymmv in terms of "pay once forever". (For upcoming features like shareable links, they'll presumably move to a part-subscription pricing model.)

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

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Post by imroot »

shihanwan1 wrote: post #106

https://asciinema.org/ We use this for really nice terminal only demos. Highly recommend even though there are some minor rendering issues if you are using special fonts.

I'm a huge fan of charmbracelet's vhs:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs

I have a gitlab CI job to update my demo .gif's every time I update my application; always ensures that things are up-to-date and provides gif/video recording that I've ran specific commands (perfect for auditors!)

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

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Post by iamawacko »

magundu wrote: post #109
devops000 wrote: post #107

the biggest pain for product demo is to have fake user data to populate the UI.

This is the main problem we are facing right now. We are looking for tools that can generate fake data(may be based on our small set of data) for live demo setup.

You could try using something like Synth[0]! You can hook it up to a database, it'll generate some json describing the shape and types of your data based on your database (or you could write the json yourself), then you can use Synth to generate fake data and directly insert it into your database.

Full disclosure, I'm the maintainer, but it's not like it'll cost you anything.

[0] https://www.getsynth.com

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

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Post by throwaway14356 »

rembicilious wrote: post #34
ziffusion wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to follow you. Do you capture your ramblings somewhere?

Wow no stranger has ever said that to me before and I really liked it, thank you! /desperate acknowledgment I don’t write, no social media either. Just staying in my place, a lurky digital hermit since the 90’s

Ah yes, the days when it doesn't even suck was high praise. When men were made of cardboard rather than rice paper.

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

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Post by dfeehrer »

CEO at Kite (YC S23) here, thanks for the mentions!

Like Screen Studio, Kite lets you record your screen and automatically zoom in on the action.

But with some key upgrades:

- Combine multiple recordings

- Add text scenes with animations

- Place your recordings on a 3D device like a phone or laptop

- Add music and AI voiceovers

With lots more in the works.

It's still early, but we have lots of startups using Kite regularly for feature-launch videos. We're live on Mac OS and have a waitlist for Windows.

Get in touch if you have pain points in this space. Happy to chat any time!

https://kite.video

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

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Post by davio »

uncertainrhymes wrote: post #110

No specifically for video, but I've always had a soft spot for this site: https://tiffzhang.com/startup/ It semi-randomly creates the site of a recently-launched startup. It is nine years old now, and completely nailed the overused style of the time. The company names are also excellent. I wonder how many accidentally became real.

I like how the current customers exist within the same fake startup universe
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