Turning websites into animated videos

Turning websites into animated videos(minidemo.app)

10 points by sum1ren 2 years ago | 13 comments

Would love to try the tool on new apps, feel free to share your website, and we'll make a new video for you

dang 2 years ago |

As pvg pointed out downthread, waitlists can't be Show HNs. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. I've taken Show HN out of the title now.

Waitlists don't make great HN submissions generally, so please don't post them. Instead, post once there's something for people to try out, or at least something more interesting than a waitlist.

sum1ren 2 years ago | |

right I see, gotcha. I'll repost as a ShowHN when I remove the waitlist next time

dinkleberg 2 years ago |

This is cool. If it is just animating things sort of randomly or based on when elements load I don’t see great real world use out of it. But if it captures all of the elements and allows you to edit what shows when and record actions against elements this could prove useful in tutorial videos.

sum1ren 2 years ago | |

the latter is definitely the long term vision. Today we do capture the elements, but do some sort of 'automated' (tree traversal) to produce the video. Would definitely love to give future users even more fine grained control

good8675309 2 years ago |

This could be really useful if it allows me to quickly highlight features by embedding short clips throughout my marketing site. Just joined the waitlist and shared my saas app.

sum1ren 2 years ago | |

nice, let me take a look at ur app from the waitlist - will be in touch soon

pvg 2 years ago | | |

Waitlists can't be Show HN's - Show HN is for things people can try right now. Take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

dreadlordbone 2 years ago |

I would like to try it, but it's a different use case (more website showcase demos, not apps). Does that fit into your product?

sum1ren 2 years ago | |

let's definitely give it a try :) what's ur app name, I'll build a demo of it and send it over (also feel free to email me the app name at hello@minidemo.app instead)

AugurCognito 2 years ago |

In the phone view, there's nothing in the hamburger menu.

sum1ren 2 years ago | |

thanks for raising this, there is currently nothing in the nav bar, but seems that hamburger menu is still there, I'll remove it :)

kamens 2 years ago | | |

want to test this out for a site I'm working on today, any chance for immediate waitlist access? kamens@gmail.com