Product Hunt Demo Video: What to Show and How to Make It
What a Product Hunt demo video needs to show in its first slot, how many steps, which format, and a way to record it from a chat the night before launch.
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What a launch needs on screen, and how to keep it current after the launch.
A launch is a dozen places that each want a short clip: the landing page, the Product Hunt gallery, the changelog, the first onboarding email, the support doc. These guides cover which clip goes where, how to cut one recording for several channels, and how to re-render instead of re-record when the UI moves.
What a Product Hunt demo video needs to show in its first slot, how many steps, which format, and a way to record it from a chat the night before launch.
A release checklist for demo videos: which clips to re-render, how to find the ones a UI change broke, and how to replace them everywhere in under an hour.
Why re-recording is the real cost of product demos, and how a small JSON script re-renders the same demo on the current UI, in any format, after every change.
How to use short demo videos in onboarding emails and help articles: one task per clip, where to host it, how to link it, and how to keep it current.
A ten-minute routine for shipping a short demo clip with every changelog entry: two to four steps, snappy style, recorded from the release notes themselves.