It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.
With LiveDemo, you can effortlessly create captivating live demonstrations of your product
LiveDemo Chrome and web application are designed to empower founders, sales, and marketing professionals.
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LiveDemo
Launched this week
Create interactive product demos in minutes. Capture any workflow, add AI voiceovers and personalized text, then share it as a link, embed, GIF, or video while tracking engagement and collecting leads across your website, docs, and sales outreach.
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@gapostolov We moved off a hosted demo tool less because of price and more because the demo went stale every time the product shipped a UI change. Does self-hosting help there at all, or is a rebuild still manual? Also curious who ends up owning demo upkeep in your users' teams, marketing or sales eng?
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@artem_fedorovich
Hey Artem, good questions!
Self-hosting doesn't auto-fix staleness, but since demos are re-recorded from live product flows, updating after a UI change is usually a quick re-capture, not a rebuild.
Ownership varies, but we typically see marketing owning top-of-funnel demos, sales eng owning interactive demonstrations aimed at closing specific deals and solving prospect pain points.
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@ridhwikvinod
On the cloud subscription the advanced engagement analytics and lead capture are behind a paid plan.
But for self-hosting the features are already available on github
https://github.com/exploitx3/livedemo-deploy
Open-source alternative to Storylane and Navattic is the real hook for me; those get expensive fast and you can't self-host them. Since capture runs through a Chrome extension, does the recorded workflow and the generated demo live in my own storage or instance, or does it round-trip through your hosted backend even on the OSS version? And are the AI voiceovers generated server-side per render, or can I point them at my own TTS key so the demo assets stay reproducible?
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@noctis06
Glad to hear the open-source aspect resonates with you!
To answer your questions directly:
Data Storage: When you use the open-source version, everything from the initial Chrome extension capture to the final generated demo lives completely within your own self-hosted instance and storage, specifically MongoDb database and S3 storage + Mux for Video. There is no round-trip back to our servers, keeping your data entirely private.
AI Voiceovers: Demos are pre-rendered server-side, on your server, and you will need to provide your own ElevenLabs/OpenAI API keys in your environment variables. This ensures your assets stay completely reproducible and independent.
Fully self-hosted with my own keys is exactly what makes this usable, thanks for the detail. Since voiceovers render server-side against my ElevenLabs/OpenAI keys, does re-generating a demo re-run TTS every time (re-billing my keys) or is the audio cached per script so unchanged narration doesn't re-hit the API? And is Mux hardcoded for video, or can I swap it for a plain S3/HLS pipeline so a self-hosted setup doesn't need a second vendor?
Tracking live engagement metrics right inside the embed layer is a massive win, huge props to the engineering team🙌. qq does the media export system render the gifs and mp4 files directly on the local browser canvas or on the server side?
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@priya_kushwaha1
Thanks so much, Priya!
Really glad the live engagement tracking stood out.
Good question - the export rendering happens on the server-side by running a browser which auto-plays the demo while recording the screen.
And it is made available as mp4 and GIF formats.
@gapostolov Interactive demos can make a huge difference in product adoption.
How long does it typically take to create a polished interactive demo?
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@adana
Great question!
You can capture and build a core interactive flow in literally under 5 minutes.
If you want to deeply polish it - adding custom callouts, personalized steps, or matching it perfectly to a specific sales narrative coult take about 15 to 45 minutes.
It’s all about how customized you want the story to be!
@gapostolov Sounds great, will definitely give it a try!
Wishing you lots of success!
NetworkSpy
Congrats on the launch! 🎉
Creating demo videos is one of those things everyone knows they need, but almost nobody enjoys making.
Quick question: is it possible to export the generated demo as an MP4 (or another video format)? It would make it much easier to upload to YouTube, share on social media, and reuse in product documentation.
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@muizidn
Yes,
You can see examples of those videos on our Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@LiveDemoOfficial
the open-source angle is what got me to actually click through, most of the competitors in this space are closed hosted-only. checked the github repo - how involved is the self-hosted setup compared to just using the hosted version, is it a docker-compose type deal or does it need real infra work to get the recording pipeline running
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@omri_ben_shoham1
Docker-compose for the web editor and for the backend, but you would also need to run the chrome extension to be able to record livedemos.
You can check it out
https://github.com/exploitx3/livedemo-deploy