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Show HN: Instorier - A tool for creating rich scroll-based stories
for your site
Hey HN! After 2 years of bootstrapping, we're excited to introduce
you to Instorier, a new digital storytelling platform that helps
businesses and agencies craft compelling stories using a variety of
modules like powerful imagery, videos, maps, and even fully
customizable 3D scenes with seamless transitions and motion that
sync to the user's scroll position. Our editor allows users to
create stories without any web development or coding experience,
making it a flexible option for companies looking to tell engaging
stories online, whether it's for in-depth feature articles, digital
exhibitions, or a company's "About us" page. We created Instorier
because we saw a frequent demand for high-quality and advanced
storytelling sites in our own agency work, but budgets were often a
limiting factor for the client's vision. Our subscription-based
pricing model has two tiers: Professional for companies looking to
enhance their own storytelling, and Agency for agencies working
with customers that have these needs. Early bird pricing is
available for both tiers until the end of January. We're looking
forward to hearing your feedback on Instorier and any suggestions
for how we can improve the platform. Our current roadmap includes
things like improving accessibility, making sure stories can render
in reader mode and/or without JS enabled, and continuously
improving the editor experience. Happy to share details on the
stack if anyone's curious! Thanks for checking out Instorier!
Founders & Devs, Bjorn and Daniel
Author : danielskogly
Score : 17 points
Date : 2023-01-07 11:03 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (instorier.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (instorier.com)
| techdragon wrote:
| You missed a plan tier... 1 story, "landing page mode"... I'd be
| willing to try something cool and new like this for $35 to make a
| _super_ slick landing page... but the entry price of $350 USD per
| month is... well past "why not use SquareSpace" and into maybe I
| can justify the hours of time to hand craft my own scroll based
| 3D presentation using the old revealJS 3d tools... the fact that
| your per "story" price is more than an entire site on several
| hosted site platforms is ... it's _very_ premium and while you
| may indeed have something so good it's worth it, odds are Im not
| going to use the remaining 20% of perfect Apple grade scrolling
| animations to justify the price.
|
| Im not suggesting you've made a mistake pitching it as premium,
| I'm just unsure if you've over shot, because this is definitely
| pricier than I'm comfortable with and I'm not afraid to just use
| Wix or SquareSpace or Typeform or any one of a number of tools
| instead of coding it all myself.
| danielskogly wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it, and agree
| completely with you when it comes to the pricing - especially
| for things like personal or small-business use. In the longer
| run, we aim to introduce more affordable tiers to enable as
| many as possible to use the product, but until then we
| understand that either hand crafting or things like
| Wix/SquareSpace might be a better option for many.
| aliqot wrote:
| Corinthians was pretty clear about not touching another man's
| scroll wheel.
| danielskogly wrote:
| Only if you're religious about it - something I know many in
| the HN crowd are!
|
| Jokes aside, this is one of the reasons we plan to add top
| notch support for both reader mode and clients that browse
| without JS enabled.
| saaaaaam wrote:
| I work with a corporate client developing specialist learning
| content. They would love this sort of thing, but unless I'm
| reading your pricing wrong then $4.2k a year for just five pieces
| of content max is insane pricing.
|
| I also own a b2b publisher and would love to use this but we'd be
| looking at 5 stories a month, not 5 stories a year.
| danielskogly wrote:
| The $350/mo plan includes 20 stories! Will look into clarifying
| the wording of our pricing table, as well as adding what extra
| usage costs. I'd love to hear more about your use cases though,
| if you'd like to get in touch at daniel at instorier.com
| kevincox wrote:
| Scrolling through your landing page on mobile was an awful
| experience. I both had my scroll speed reduced to stop in the
| middle of sections then was zipped by the small amount of
| content.
|
| Looks flashy but isn't functional and definitely needs some
| polish. Not that I would ever be happy with this sort of
| interface. Just stick the text on the page and let me scroll like
| every other page on the web.
| me_bx wrote:
| Same experience here on mobile, where scrolling vertically
| tends to skip sections.
|
| I had the same issue on a website with scroll-snapping a few
| months ago and fixed with the following CSS applied to each
| section: scroll-snap-stop: always;
| danielskogly wrote:
| Well that sucks to hear! I'd be really interested in knowing
| what device you're on, and whether or not you have things like
| battery saving on.
|
| I really can't envision a future where every single article
| would be made in a tool like Instorier - plain text is enough
| for most things, and I hate it myself when pages scroll-hog.
| Some experiences may have something to gain from being able to
| synchronize scroll with e.g. drawing a journey taken on a map,
| or being able to highlight and zoom in on statues or buildings
| as a story is told.
| [deleted]
| weego wrote:
| I don't want to be negative because launching a thing you believe
| in is always a good moment, so congratulations for that.
|
| Maybe it's just that the landing page and demos don't show where
| the value is, but I don't see how this is a business, let alone a
| 350/mo one, and not just a framework.
| brudgers wrote:
| If $350/month seems like too much money, the product isn't for
| you.
|
| If it seems like a bargain, it is.
|
| To be a business, you have to stay in business. 100 customers
| at $350/month probably allows that. 7000 at $5/month probably
| doesn't because it requires 70x conversions, 70x retentions,
| and 70x the customer service (at least) -- and of course
| $5/month is trying to compete with free.
| fortyseven wrote:
| Wow. You can just pack that comment up and use it anywhere,
| huh?
|
| "If it's good for you, that's good. If it's bad to you, it's
| not for you."
|
| Brilliant.
| vagrantJin wrote:
| Cool. Looks neat for sites looking to be on awwwards some day.
|
| But I have no idea how it performs on different devices and
| browsers.
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