#Ishowu hd quits as soon as it opens software
I’ve had an iShowU HD license ($30 and worth it) for a few years and used it for the Wiretap demo.Īudio Recording - Audacity - Awesome, free, open-source software for recording a narration track. It’s a little clunky, though, and lacks some nice features in commercial software like scaling and a better workflow. You can record the screen or a specific bounded rectangle. Video Capture - QuickTime / iShowU HD - Yep, the QuickTime Player installed on every OSX can make screen recordings. Since folks are always curious about tooling, here’s what I used. Great recording software doesn’t make a great demo, but it can save you a lot of time. Tsk, tsk.) Use Bargain Tools that are Easy (It could be better yet: the current intro takes 50 seconds. It wasn’t much work and the improvement was substantial. So I scratched it, recorded new audio, and rearranged the video clips to match. I jumped straight into using the product. “The intro was missing the why? Why did you build this? Why is it useful?” The feedback I got on the first version of my demo was: Show someone who could be a user of your product but doesn’t know anything about it yet. Show Friends, Act on FeedbackĪfter hacking on a project for a while it’s really hard to describe it in a demo context-free. Heck, maybe even copy them straight from your BDD tests, if that’s your bag.ĭon’t expect someone to watch your whole demo, but give them reasons to. Reuse the scenarios you came up with to guide your app’s design and implementation. Walk through scenarios that motivate features. Luckily I got some good feedback on the first take from a friend. The intro to Wiretap’s demo was something I struggled with. The idea is readers should be able to leave a story halfway through and have a good enough understanding of it.
News writers popularized the idea of an Inverted Pyramid, or, “Bottom Line Up Front”. If someone stops watching after 30 seconds, will they know what they need to know?
Put your most important messages in the beginning. Here’s how Wiretap’s demo avoided putting (most) people to sleep and some other fun, behind-the-scenes details. By default, these are the ingredients of a snoozer video. Wiretap is an HTTP debugger for mobile and web apps integrating with REST APIs. I was really afraid of falling into these traps. It’s hard to give enough context, but not too much. It’s hard not to get lost in features and technical details. I was pleasantly surprised to get asked this after releasing Wiretap's first demo video.
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