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Ask HN: Feedback on my new demo screencast?
2 points by atldev on Sept 12, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Hi everyone: Since launch, the most common feedback I've received is "you need to show the product in action". So, I added a screencast demo. Amazingly, it took longer than coding a significant feature. I had estimated 30 min. but it took several hours.

Lessons learned:

-It takes longer than you expect to get to "good enough".

-Invest in a usb headphone/mic combo (sorry about the audio quality- mine is en route from amazon).

-Youtube couldn't process the swf format produced by Jing (I had to extract the video and ultimately converted it to AVI before uploading for best quality).

-Lightbox libraries do not play well with mixed jquery versions. I had to pull the same libraries used on example sites.

Please critique before I share with my target market (corporate IT and Helpdesk managers).

Thanks!



Clickable: http://statusdashboard.com Then hit "Watch demo"




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