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Product demos
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2008–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Product demos, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Demo video is 30 minutes long and takes 1:30 to get past login2025-12-05
- Demo is confusing and overwhelming to the viewer2024-08-28
- Must wait for video to load and skip around to find product2015-09-27
- Demo is confusing; reader couldn't tell what it was communicating2014-12-08
- Couldn't tell what the software does from the 15-minute video2008-05-12