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HN: I built a tool to create interactive demo in seconds for SaaS

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This title seems to imply a personal project but the array of logos of customers and prompts to apply for a job makes me think this is an established, VC-backed company trying to get free exposure.

And the problem with that is?

This is HN, it is literally run by VCs.

The problem is that "Show HN:" is typically reserved for new or small projects (by convention, not by law before any pedantic know it alls chime in)

I believe Show HN is also what is suggested in guidelines for non-YC startups that are not allowed to use Launch HN (although some text along with the post would have been nice).

I was also referring to the way the title uses “I” to say that an individual person built the tool, when really it’s a company with employees.

We are a small project for now ;) I'm the cofounder in charge of the product & design topic, and we made it with my three friends & cofounders on the tech side in an indie way. We spent 11 months in stealth and started hiring a team four months ago. ;)

Yeah this isn’t even open source or partially open source as far as I could tell (and I did some digging). This product is extremely cool, but this is just corporate product marketing.

We are fully bootstrapped since day 1 and all these logos are our customers. We spend 11 months in stealth mode ;)

These illustrations look suspiciously like Maze's artwork: https://maze.co/why-maze/

Wow this looks super cool! Very useful indeed!

So how does it work under the hood? Chrome extension to capture the full html, assets etc and then serve them and replay user interactions?

Or something even better?

PS. Love it that your site works without javascript.

Hello Rudasn, a Chrome extension captures your click, and product code and generates a demo instantly!

Thank you so much for the lovely feedback!

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