Mirage - Turn your SaaS into a clickable demo in 90 seconds.
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Most product demos are a 40MB video nobody finishes or a $500/mo tool no bootstrapper can justify.
Mirage is the third option: capture your real app in one click, add guided hotspots, and publish a clickable demo you can embed anywhere in ~90 seconds. Track views, completions, and per step drop-off so you fix the leak instead of guessing.
Perfect for landing pages, PH launches, and onboarding emails. First demo is free forever.
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@anukarop 90 seconds is the capture, but the part that eats my team's time is editing tooltips and scrubbing customer data out of screenshots. How much of that is automated? Asking because the last tool we tried was fast to record and then two hours of cleanup per demo.
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@artem_fedorovich Great question. Cleanup is where most tools slow you down. With Mirage, you can edit tooltips and swap screenshots after capture, so fixing copy or redacting data takes minutes, not a full re-record.
@anukarop What was the single hardest UX trade-off you faced while designing Mirage’s capture flow, and how did you decide which side to favor?
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@swati_paliwal The hardest trade-off was auto-capture vs. control: record every click and you get a complete but bloated demo, or hand-pick each step and risk people abandoning halfway.
We chose capture-everything-first, then make trimming dead simple in the editor. This is way easier to delete extra steps than to realize you missed the one click that mattered.
@anukarop Congrats on launching Mirage! The "no login, no cookie wall, no book-a-call gate" line on your site is doing more selling than most demo tools manage in a whole page! That's the actual pitch, not the price comparison: you're letting buyers trust you before they've talked to you, which is a harder thing to build than it looks.
I'm eyeing this for my own Sept 9th launch - clickable beats a video when someone's giving you 20 seconds.
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@anna_ludwinowski Thanks Anna! All the best for your launch.
@anukarop Thank you - it'll be my first one!
Congrats on the launch! QQ - when someone re-skins a demo with an updated UI, does the choreography still hold or do the hotspots and cursor path drift off the new screenshot? Curious how much re-tuning a normal UI change costs before it feels directed again. Neat product!
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@artstavenka1 Thanks! Good question, and honest answer: hotspots are pinned to coordinates on the screenshot, so if the new UI keeps roughly the same layout, the choreography holds fine. If things moved around, the hotspot and cursor can land a little off, and you'd nudge them back into place on that step. It's a drag-and-drop fix per screen, not a rebuild, so a normal UI refresh is usually a couple minutes of re-tuning to make it feel directed again. Bigger redesigns cost more, but you're only touching the steps that actually changed.
the per-step drop-off tracking is the feature that actually sells me, most demo tools stop at view counts and leave you guessing which step lost people. once you see a specific hotspot is where viewers bail, can you edit or reorder that step without recapturing the whole flow, or does a change mean starting over
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@galdayan Yeah, that's exactly the part I cared about most. View counts just tell you people showed up, not where they quietly gave up. So once you see a hotspot where folks are bailing, you can just fix that one step; reword the tooltip, move the hotspot, reorder it or just swap the screenshot and republish. You just patch the spot that's leaking and move on.
Congrats on the launch. That 'record a video nobody watches or pay $500/mo' framing is why I've had an empty demo slot on my own landing page for weeks. Since it captures the real running app: when I publish and embed it on a public page, does the demo replay the actual captured frames, or can I repoint those same steps at placeholder data before it goes live? Mostly thinking about what I'd want to swap out before it's out in the open.
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@vollos Thank you, and that empty demo slot is exactly the itch I was scratching!
So yes, a published demo replays the actual captured frames, but those frames aren't locked. Each step is editable before you go live, so you can swap in a screenshot with placeholder or dummy data, blur or replace anything sensitive, and adjust the tooltip copy to match. Basically you capture the real running app to get the structure and flow, then clean up whatever you don't want public before you hit publish and embed. Nothing goes live that you haven't signed off on.
@anukarop Makes sense, thanks. On the swap though, when I drop a placeholder in for a step, does that replace the original capture or does the real-data frame still sit on your side? Mostly thinking about where the real stuff ends up once the public version's cleaned up.
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@vollos Good question, Actually the swap actually replaces the frame in that step, and here's the important part: drafts live locally in your browser, nothing touches our servers until you hit publish. So when you publish, only the cleaned-up version gets uploaded. The real-data frame never leaves your machine unless you choose to publish it.
@anukarop That's the answer I was hoping for. Keeping drafts local so the real frames never become your liability is the right call, and it's the line I'd put on the landing page. Good luck with the launch.
Congratulations on the launch! The per-step drop-off tracking is the part I'd like the most: knowing where people abandon a demo is more useful than raw view counts. One question: for a product with a longer multi-step flow, does the capture hold up well, or is it best kept to a few key screens? We're weighing something like this for our own launch.
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@alieksia Thanks! And I agree, drop-off tells you much more than raw views. Mirage handles long flows just fine, there's no capture limit, but the analytics usually show that shorter demos perform better since that's where people stay engaged. I'd capture the full flow first, then trim it down to the key screens that help users understand the value as quickly as possible. Perfect for a launch.
@anukarop Thanks for the detailed answer. Makes sense - capture everything, then cut to what shows the value fastest. That's a useful rule of thumb well beyond demos.
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@alieksia Honestly you should try building one in Mirage sometime; curious what you'd make with it!
Great timing for me personally — I'm mid-way through building a demo video for my own launch, and the "clickable" angle is interesting since most demo tools just produce a static walkthrough video. How are you handling the underlying app state for the clickable version — is it recording real interactions and replaying them, or simulating a fake environment? Curious how much fidelity you get without literally embedding the live app.
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@abhineetarora Second approach, Mirage takes a snapshot of each screen from your real app, then puts clickable hotspots on top. So it's more of a frozen replay than the live app running; which means no auth or data headaches, it loads instantly, and it keeps working even if your backend changes later. Fidelity stays high since it's your actual UI, not a mockup. Best of luck with your launch, you've got this!
@anukarop That makes sense — frozen replay is a smart tradeoff, you get the "it's really my product" credibility without the backend fragility of a live embed. Appreciate the detailed answer, and the good luck wish! Back to my own screen-recording grind for now, but this is a genuinely interesting approach for embedding an interactive demo on our own site down the line.
Great launch! The editor looks simple enough for founders to use directly, but I can also imagine marketing and product teams working on the same demo. Are collaboration features such as comments, approvals, or shared editing currently planned?
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@nico_mandera Thanks! We intentionally kept it simple so creating a demo takes as little time as possible.
As for the collaboration feature, it's already on our roadmap and will be included in one of our upcoming releases.
Already had my previous comment chain, but wanted to post a final comment as a separate submission.
Tool works well.
For me, the most important thing is that team behind the tool is extremely responsive and supportive.
They took care of all the issues I had in 24 hours and helped me through A to Z to get my demo up and running very quickly.
Thank you guys.
Definite recommendation from me.
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@archie_m Thanks so much, Archie!
Really appreciate you giving Mirage a try and for taking the time to leave another comment. Your feedback helped us improve the product, and we're glad we could get everything sorted quickly. Thanks again for the recommendation. It truly means a lot!
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@madalina_barbu Thanks! The first demo's free forever, no card needed, so give it a spin and tell me what you think. Curious what you'd build with it.
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@harshsurela No interruption at all, really appreciate you recording a full journey and putting it through its paces. Thanks for flagging the disappearing capture too. You caught us mid-upgrade on the editor panel, so that was almost certainly the cause, not anything you did. I'm on it. Really glad the rest felt flexible and easy, thanks for giving it a real shot :)