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Ask HN: How are you creating demo videos for your product?
I am building a SaaS product, which tools do you recommend? any open-source or free ones available that are extremely good?
Re:Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?
on Saturday July 04, 2026 @05:08AM (#48783949)
I think I wanna target customers who are in small and medium scale orgs, where they use some standard tool like jira/linear but don't have a hard security team blocker. Target developers who are focusing on improving their efficiency individually and then our enterprise version will be for those teams that want to improve the overall teams efficiency by reducing mundane work and giving them insights on what their team can do better each week
Re:Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?
on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:48AM (#48783826)
The product runs on the machine locally, captures accessibility/screen ocr and takes care of your Jira task updates. No data leaves the machine
This is where it is right now, but the idea is that it does all the developer overhead automatically. No more manual Jira updates, Doc updates, Slack response, etc. No more losing context mid-flow.
Thats the context, what are your thoughts?
Re:Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:19AM (#48773255)
Sure and any suggestions on processes to follow to make some good open-source impressions and github stars?
Re:Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:20PM (#48769965)
It runs on your machine locally, understands your work and takes care of your Jira task updates for you. No data leaves your machine
This is where it is right now, but the idea is that it does all the boring stuff developers hate to do and don't have to do, if it can see what you do then it can learn and take care of those things that can be taken care of
Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
What are your suggestions for an open-source developer efficiency product to get more engagement and reach. The product is for software developers right now
Re:Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:02PM (#48769840)
What do you mean this is the worst time for saas?
Re:Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:15PM (#48765350)
Would you pay for this? And what would be the expectation?
Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?
Built a product that runs on your machine, understands your work and takes care of your Jira task updates for you. No data leaves your machine
Re:Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:44AM (#48746676)
Makes sense. I'll ask sonnet 5 to help me out with the comparison
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:03AM (#48742857)
Not in SF, so no SOMA sign for me. I'll just keep yelling into Reddit and hope the algorithm mistakes it for foot traffic.
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:59AM (#48742825)
This is the repo: https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie
Re:Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:38AM (#48742682)
Why 36 months?
Re:Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:36AM (#48742672)
Thanks for the share, really good read!
Re:Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:34AM (#48742659)
64GB is good for me for now, I'll wait for the M5 upgrade
Re:Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:33AM (#48742652)
The memory size looks insane! Is that even real?
But they had the 512GB version in M3 Ultra so highly likely that it is
Claude Tag
Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
As a developer building projects with AI coding agents, I need to have the system running day and night. Do you think buying mac studio is worth it?
Ask HN: How is Claude Slack app performing in your organisation?
Is the hype real? I am currently not working with a bug team so I am just curious on how good the context management and memory is
Ask HN: Which is the best local model under 3B parameters today?
I am building a product for worklog updation automation for developers, so the model should be able to process the developer's coding agent session/screen capture ocr/screen accessibility tree text and then classify them and post update on what was the progress made on their connected project management tool. Which model would you suggest for this usecase?
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:09PM (#48727419)
I think we’re talking about two different problems.
I know who my initial users are—that’s how I got the prototype to where it is today. What I’m trying to figure out now is distribution beyond my personal network. Once you’ve validated with the people you already know, how do you find the next 100 developers who have the same problem but don’t know you yet?
That’s the part I was hoping to get advice on.
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:57AM (#48716158)
I will try this out, thanks! Starring the repo
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:56AM (#48716152)
I know only few people in my network that I can pitch this product to, but need suggestion to put it out on the net for others to see, gain more traction and visibility that something like this exists if they are already looking for it
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:54AM (#48716139)
That’s a good point. I did deploy an early version for my team of developers, and it helped me understand what each one was working on without constant status updates. It also surfaced context that was usually lost across Slack and meetings.
The challenge now is that I’m only one data point. I’m trying to figure out whether this pain is common enough outside my own team, and if so, who feels it the most—engineering managers, tech leads, or someone even outside tech (like finance or something).
When I had this problem, I mostly looked for better engineering analytics and developer productivity tools, but nothing really gave me how work was actually happening. That’s the hypothesis I’m trying to validate now. Let me know if you know of ways to reach these kind of audience that might potentially use this product
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:48AM (#48716097)
This is really cool, did you get to know about this conversation from your tool?
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @10:38AM (#48707700)
I started off by solving the issue that I was facing as a tech lead working with 15 people in my team, not everyone was performing at their best and thought this could solve the issue. Now I want to get similar developers who are facing this issue. I know the problem is real but the right people need to know that this product exists
Re:Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product ma...
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @07:46AM (#48706507)
Suggestions of any subreddit communities where I can spend time on?
Re:ASK HN: Any suggestions or open source tools that capture the screen
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @07:43AM (#48706491)
If you are looking to capture your screen and a11y tree to understand the activity then there are some popular frameworks like screepipe, wakatime that stores this and provides analytics on the captured data. you can look for other competitors around similar products