How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

• plandex

  17 9,497 9.8 Go

  AI driven development in your terminal. Designed for large, real-world tasks.

  

I built the demo video for https://plandex.ai myself using CleanShot X (https://cleanshot.com/), Adobe Premiere Pro, an effect I bought in Adobe's marketplace, some AppleScript automation, and music from SoundStripe (https://soundstripe.com/).

It was my first time using all these tools. It took me a couple days to make the video. Premier is a bit of a beast, but by just asking ChatGPT how to do everything, I was able to get up to speed with it pretty fast.

• asciinema

  104 13,330 9.6 Rust

  Terminal session recorder 📹

  

https://asciinema.org/

We use this for really nice terminal only demos. Highly recommend even though there are some minor rendering issues if you are using special fonts.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• vhs

  36 14,030 8.3 Go

  Your CLI home video recorder 📼

  

I'm a huge fan of charmbracelet's vhs:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs

I have a gitlab CI job to update my demo .gif's every time I update my application; always ensures that things are up-to-date and provides gif/video recording that I've ran specific commands (perfect for auditors!)

• Journey.js

  3 108 9.5 JavaScript

  🚶 A lightweight, easy-to-use JavaScript library to create interactive, customizable, accessible guided tours across your websites or web apps!

For product videos I used OBS a lot: https://obsproject.com/

I haven't used Journey, but it seems promising for product Tours: https://www.william-troup.com/journey-js/

• obs-studio

  2,362 56,014 9.8 C

  OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  

For product videos I used OBS a lot: https://obsproject.com/

I haven't used Journey, but it seems promising for product Tours: https://www.william-troup.com/journey-js/

• demosh

  1 32 4.1 Python

  Run code in Markdown files or shell scripts very interactively, to allow more engaging demos.

  

This is less of a video grab tool and more focused on making a CLI tool/demo look more slick: https://github.com/BuoyantIO/demosh

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