[HN Gopher] Great SaaS Demos Enabled by DevOps Tools
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Great SaaS Demos Enabled by DevOps Tools
Author : regiswilson
Score : 46 points
Date : 2021-03-19 15:28 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (releasehub.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (releasehub.com)
| ProAm wrote:
| Do people really need a tool to do this? This is tech sales 101.
| Everyone does this.
| sokoloff wrote:
| Everyone most certainly does not do this.
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| Source: I've seen a lot of demos that would have benefited from
| this and am responsible for a group who is not yet doing this,
| but needs to begin doing so. (I agree it's elementary tech
| sales, but it might 201 level as a lot of places succeed
| without it; we've been selling to semi-captive internal
| customers so long that we didn't prioritize this. Other
| companies clearly get by without this as well, even to fully
| arms-length customers.)
| k__ wrote:
| I worked with a bunch of startups and none of them did this.
| chatmasta wrote:
| I enjoyed the post, and the startup looks cool as well. I can
| clearly see the pain point. I think it will be a challenge
| positioning this product, because in order for a customer to be
| able to use it, presumably they already need relatively mature
| DevOps pipelines, in order to give Release(Hub?) something they
| can deploy/manage. And if I already have automated builds and a
| CI pipeline, is it really that much more work to automate sandbox
| deploys as well? Why wouldn't I deploy to my own infra, or some
| hosted k8s service, or GitLab Auto-DevOps?
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| I'm sure you've thought about this challenge, so I'm curious what
| your plans are in terms of adding value outside of "deploy to
| sandbox" workflows that can be replicated by CI tools and cloud
| providers (keep in mind that VC-funded startups, presumably your
| ideal customer, often have $100k+ in cloud credits to burn
| through). I see data snapshots, so that's a start maybe. But are
| you working on anything that will be hard to replicate?
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| (Also, unrelated, but I love the design!)
| k__ wrote:
| A good DevOps pipeline is generally a good investment.
|
| It might seem like the cherry on top, but being able to move fast
| and safely break things makes development more fun, not just for
| the developers.
| ksm1717 wrote:
| Does anyone get any use out of chat bot corner pop ups other than
| feeling patronized? You could create one that calls your users
| names or responds with middle finger emojis and nobody would
| notice.
| tommy_mcclung wrote:
| On our blog it has been pretty good to get newsletter signups.
| We tried just having a 'subscribe to our newsletter' section
| but no one filled that out. I moved it over to Intercom as an
| experiment and it actually worked. For our main site it's
| barely worth it... we get a few questions here and there.
| ianpurton wrote:
| I only do video demonstrations now, even internally.
|
| They go a lot quicker as I can edit out unnecessary typing etc.
| Then there's no need to be on site and do a demo just send a
| link.
| tommy_mcclung wrote:
| That works for some use cases, but what I've found makes the
| best demo is to ask the potential customer what pain points
| they are experiencing and then I cater my demo exactly to their
| pain points. Making the demo interactive helps get the prospect
| to engage. When I get the customer talking it's amazing what
| they will tell you and the demo can take better shape.
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| redis_mlc wrote:
| What tools do you use for making your video demonstrations?
| chrisweekly wrote:
| FTR, this is not about great demos that happen to have been
| enabled by devops tools -- it's about "ReleaseHub" which can
| (among other things) help in the creation of great demos. I
| almost skipped the article bc of this ambiguity. HTH
| andrewfromx wrote:
| Oh c'mon I thought it was well written and NOT just a sales
| pitch for the product. The author clearly had experiences to
| share and this product demonstrated a solution.
| grumblestumble wrote:
| This is an advertisement for a service disguised as an
| informative article. The info it provides is pretty basic and
| it's just farming clicks for signups from HN.
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