Hello Product Hunters! 🚀
I'm Justin Halsall, founder of Record Once, a desktop app transforming video tutorial creation for SaaS companies.
Why Record Once?
I just got tired of the endless cycle of recording a tutorial, making a mistake, re-recording over and over, endless hours of editing! That's why we built Record Once. Our desktop app fixes mistakes & automates editing, allowing you to record your tutorial once and get it right the first time.
Our Journey & Contribution
As a bootstrapped team, we've contributed extensively to rrweb, with 100+ Pull Requests & 200,000+ lines of code. This has not only shaped Record Once but we are also proud to supported the wider open source community.
What Makes Record Once Unique?
Effortless Editing: Automated editing saves time and ensures quality.
We're eager to hear your feedback and see how Record Once can revolutionize your video tutorials. A big thank you to the Indie Hackers, Open Source Contributors, and the Product Hunt community.
Looking forward to your comments!
Best,
Justin Halsall, Joris Machielse & Jonno Riekwel
#buildinpublic #indiedev #SaaSrevolution #videoediting #rrweb #open-source
@juice10 hi, I see you are from NL? Looks great but the getting started button doesn't work on mobile... ps: I'm also creating a SaaS based on rrweb that allows you to automatically detect this problem before it costs customers. It will launch in Q2 ;)
@smilejet thanks for finding that! Yes based in Amsterdam and planning to do an rrweb meetup sometime soon, you should tag along! Would love to see your product in action, and maybe give you some rrweb tips if you'd like.
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@juice10 Ah great! I'm near Tilburg/Den Bosch. Should definitly do a meetup soon, always love to meet like minded people and to learn. I joined the group ;)
You identified a real problem and built a nice solution, well done!
I have the feeling that many customers just need a good demo once that they can then use again and again.
How do you plan on monetizing these kinds of customers without "punishing" frequent users with a high price?
@lrueger We specifically want to be generous to light users, which is what our a free-forever plan is for. The videos + text-guides of free users have some of our branding. The branding helps us get the word out. So we get something in return.
However, we believe there’s a huge untapped market of slightly bigger SaaS companies. We’ve spoken with many of them, and most say something like:
“Our users prefer video over text. But creating these videos is a huge amount of work (days/weeks). The minute we release a new version of our SaaS, the videos go out of date, wasting all of the effort.”
So they end up deferring the videos until “after the next release” and then the next release. So basically they just don’t make them at all.
When making (and updating) those videos only takes a few minutes instead of weeks, that flips the whole problem around.
That’s our market. So medium to larger SaaS who need a scalable way to create + maintain a bigger collection of videos. When they get enough value out of our product, we hope they’re happy to pay us a decent amount.
@machielse Thank you for the elaborate and insightful reply!
I immediately had to think of a new use case for your product:
Some SaaS companies tailor their software to their customers CI, e.g. for Sales or HR purposes.
Maybe you can integrate a feature that such demos get tailored to the customers of YOUR customers. This way you would create value for companies that don't have many new versions to create new demo versions for, but also for companies that want to tailor that video to their customer's CI.
Since your software doesn't record the screen but uses the JavaScript etc. of the software, maybe this is technically possible?
Would love to hear your opinion about this!
@lrueger Do you mean where we tailor the content of the video towards the audience of our users?
I generally think that our users know best about what to show their users. So we’ve tailored the tool so people can just record whatever demo/explainer that they’re used to giving users in Zoom calls for example. For them that‘s often routine stuff, but if they’d then have to record a video that’s good enough for the website, than things start tumbling down and it takes hours and hours and lots of skills.
So we were like: what if you could just record like you’re showing it to their audience as they’re used to, and then we make _that_ great.
Seems incredibly promising to save lots of time and effort! Especially for other startups, since we always have to carefully check and balance out on what we spend our limited time and resources on. Cheers for this! I want to try it out. Though, I have always been a fan of rather unusually fashioned tutorials/guiding videos, so, how much effort would it be to retreive content that has been removed by the AI? Especially regarding intentional gaps....
@daniel_wiesenhutter it is one button to restore the content that was cut, so if you have intentional pauses that where cut it’s super easy to restore it.
Curious if you have any examples of situations like this
@juice10 Is it possible to select only certain bits n parts to be restored? Example would be a sudden pause to emphasize what has just been shown in the explanatory video....if that makes any sense
@daniel_wiesenhutter you can add an extra break between actions if you would like to emphasise something. And you can even add a voice over to that 'break' so you can explain what you are going to be doing, or explain what has been done. Feel free to ping me in the chat in the app, I'd be happy to help you out with one of your videos.
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This is super awesome! I was literally just trying to edit demo videos for my website and have found that process to be very time consuming but also just kind of annoying, with editing small frames on premiere pro. I've definitely also filmed each of my demo videos at least 3 or 4 times every time. Even though you're core value proposition is the no editing part, I think it might be useful if the user can still edit a little bit if the AI doesn't do exactly what I want each time? —which will inevitably happen sometimes for sure. congrats on the launch!
@brandon_yan that’s indeed possible! With just a few clicks instead of the fiddling like in traditional editing software.
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This is such a great time saver, congrats on the launch!
Way back when I made desktop apps, I used Snapz Pro to record my screen, recorded the voiceover separately, and then would spend many hours in Final Cut Pro, editing the video tutorials to make them tight and snappy. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Why Record Once?
I just got tired of the endless cycle of recording a tutorial, making a mistake, re-recording over and over, endless hours of editing! That's why we built Record Once. Our desktop app fixes mistakes & automates editing, allowing you to record your tutorial once and get it right the first time.Our Journey & Contribution
As a bootstrapped team, we've contributed extensively to rrweb, with 100+ Pull Requests & 200,000+ lines of code. This has not only shaped Record Once but we are also proud to supported the wider open source community.What Makes Record Once Unique?
- Effortless Editing: Automated editing saves time and ensures quality.
- Error Reduction: Minimizes re-recording, streamlining tutorial creation.
- SaaS-Focused: Tailored for SaaS companies' specific needs.
- We are serious about supporting open source: our contributions to rrweb.
We're eager to hear your feedback and see how Record Once can revolutionize your video tutorials. A big thank you to the Indie Hackers, Open Source Contributors, and the Product Hunt community. Looking forward to your comments! Best, Justin Halsall, Joris Machielse & Jonno Riekwel #buildinpublic #indiedev #SaaSrevolution #videoediting #rrweb #open-source