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Comment by upmostly

12 hours ago

This comment was surprising to me.

I never considered that people want to watch a video in this day and age when they can try the real thing.

Perhaps I've fallen into that trap with the product [1] I'm building. I have a "Live Demo" button on the landing page and thought that would be enough? I'm going to reconsider...

1. https://dbpro.app

Perhaps it depends on the product, but interacting with demo almost certainly requires more effort than to watch someone else do a demo.

As for me, I’d like to watch a short clip (or at least see screenshots) before I try to demo anything.

TBH that part of your landing page exhibits some confusing UX. Perhaps it's just me but when I see a UI image with a play button I assume that clicking it is going to play a video, not redirect me to a login page.

I think there’s a big difference in commitment between the level of friction in signing up for a service and spending a couple of min on orienting myself and clicking play and watching the happy path go for 30s.