Genuinely curious, because I am on the making side of this and I want to know what we are getting wrong.
We build real-time face and voice models, so demos are most of how anyone judges us. The tell I have become allergic to in our own material is the cut. If a video edits right at the moment the product would have had to respond, the edit is doing the work the product could not. Anyone who has built something real-time spots it immediately, because you know exactly what got removed.
The other one is a demo where nothing goes wrong. Real usage has friction, so a flawless run starts to read as rehearsed rather than good.
So what is yours? The moment in a demo where you quietly stopped believing it.
Because building products has become much more accessible thanks to AI, the bar has had to rise a bit, or at least the expectations have become stricter.
I built my own tool, but personally, I wouldn t launch it on Product Hunt yet because it s still very basic and doesn t even have a website.
