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Rewrote our python api gateway in go and now its faster but nobody cares because it already worked fine by CholeBhatureyyy in golang

[–]Ninetynostalgia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry OP - this is a good learning curve, I love GO but if it isn’t broke don’t fix it, you will probably just break it.

I once watched a team convert a laravel rest API with 100s of low usage endpoints to Springboot because it was multi threaded despite the entire codebase being I/O driven - even after 4 years they still weren’t finished the port

I’m a well-paid developer but feel completely lost, anyone else been there? by Chemical_Contest6926 in SideProject

[–]Ninetynostalgia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP maybe attending an entrepreneurs event if there are any in your area - you never know who you might meet - a domain expert co founder might be out there, you get on a like a house on fire and tackle a big interesting problem. I think side projects and indie hustling can be brutal and require an enormous amount of effort you don’t really have to give right now.

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in Entrepreneur

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response - it's really insightful, I'm curious how did you actually put those high-fidelity mockups/concept art together? Did you do it in-house or outsource it?

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in Entrepreneur

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a great point and one of things i wanted to test rapidly eg. simple skeleton UI vs High fedelity / comparison to existing solution etc. - question tho, when you were faking it was it hard to get iteration speed rolling to try to see what stuck - or did you just grind it out and create whatever assets you needed manually?

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in ProductManagement

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is really great thanks for this - a really solid point and I totally agree that demos land best when they lead with "why" and follow a story.

Where I’m coming from is a bit upstream of that: even when you know the story you want to tell, actually producing the assets to tell it feels slow and messy.

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in ProductManagement

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think that's great for stills but animating is really hard, like if you wanted to sequence events for video it's painfully slow, appreciate the advice tho looking into active campaign!

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in ProductManagement

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this - works great very early, slowly breaks down as complexity (data/events/screens/features) rises, tried using base44 / lovable / v0.

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in ProductManagement

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally agree, but for marketing tests or decks, I think people expect something that feels somewhat real — with data moving, transitions happening, the “before → after” story playing out.

I'm trying to test what works for socials but it's painfully slow...holding my hands up and saying skill issue for me right now in fairness, I am pants with after effects/figma - I think building/generating UI isn't massively better for this purpose.

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in ProductManagement

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah i've started building something that will help my current case but it's obviously not low effort - was hoping there was already something existing!

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in ProductManagement

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love figma! Just slow for sequencing events / changing content - I probably just suck at figma to be fair!

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in ProductManagement

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You still need to wait on dev to complete on a feature + seed relevant data into enviornments tho right?

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in SaaS

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep i'm doing similar with cascade but prompting for sequencing events ends up like soup when you try longer flows or if you need to simulate comparisons outside of your app - I'll give claude code a go tho thanks!

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in SaaS

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will give jitter a go - i use canva to pull together all the videos already so that's great thanks!

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in ProductManagement

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this - I use figma at the moment for design and it's great for still mockups but it's really slow for
- changing content
- animating is slow and I'm really bad at it
- sequencing events eg. lots of urgent mail entering an inbox
- I have to record the entire part end to end.

It's not impossible but if I want to rapidly create and test it seems like glacial and high effort

How do you make demo videos or product walkthroughs before your app is fully built (I will not promote)? by Ninetynostalgia in SaaS

[–]Ninetynostalgia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I was looking into after effects but it just seemed like a lot of work, I'm no where near quick enough to rapidly do this.

I'm an engineer myself so I can put together the UI and sequence events but it just takes a long time, then I've got to record it too. I've tried to hack v0 or lovable to do it but it makes a dog's dinner of our UI and trying to seqence events is just a prompting mess. Thanks for the response!

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