[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a tool to create product tutorials
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Show HN: I made a tool to create product tutorials
 
Author : Outofthebot
Score  : 71 points
Date   : 2022-02-22 20:20 UTC (2 hours ago)
 
web link (textframe.app)
w3m dump (textframe.app)
 
| dot_michael wrote:
| This is great. I think something like this is very valuable to a
| small startup or indie hacker who has a product that requires a
| sign up before their users can see/use.
| 
| You know how a lot of SaaS has a video of the user story and what
| their app does and looks like on the landing page? Well, I think
| this can be way better, less time consuming, and way cheaper than
| hiring an animation studio to create that video. You can also
| edit the textframe as the product grows; something that is much
| harder to do for videos.
| 
| A few of small features can make this way better.
| 
| 1. The ability to put the textframe in an iframe. So users can
| use it on their landing page.
| 
| 2. The ability to auto play the steps. (it should stop autoplay
| if user clicks on a step to view)
| 
| 3. More UI customizability so it goes with the landing page.
| 
| I see this being more valuable as a marketing tool than a
| tutorial tool, but I'm only one person. Good work and good luck
| =)
 
  | Outofthebot wrote:
  | Thank you for the feedback!
  | 
  | When you say marketing tool, what sort of content do you have
  | in mind?
  | 
  | Also, I do provide the ability to embed in your landing pages,
  | the instructions are at the bottom of my landing page.
 
| codeonline wrote:
| These look good for visualising user stories too.
 
  | Outofthebot wrote:
  | Do you have an example of one of these you have in mind? I'm
  | not very familiar with user stories.
 
| Marciplan wrote:
| This looks great. The Marketing Website can use some
| flair/oberall design -- but the product looks stellar. Good luck
| w that!
 
| Outofthebot wrote:
| Hi HN,
| 
| My name is Rahul Sarathy and I posted TextFrame a few months ago
| on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29234636) as a tool
| to create animated technical papers. After gathering feedback
| from the community, I found that the best use case for my tool
| was for creating tutorials.
| 
| I am proud to share my next iteration as a tool to create
| animated product tutorials. Hopefully you can find use in it to
| create more engaging tutorials for onboarding and helping out
| your users.
| 
| You can check out some examples I've created using the software:
| at https://textframe.app/examples
| 
| Please let me know what you think! You can also email me at
| rahul@textframe.app if you have any questions or just want to say
| hello
 
  | apurvak wrote:
  | This is very cool and useful. I will provide some wish-list for
  | this offline. I love the idea and I will use this.
 
    | Outofthebot wrote:
    | That's awesome to hear. Definitely get in touch with me over
    | email, I'd love to discuss more with you.
 
| arosier wrote:
| Pretty cool!
 
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