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Building a New Home Purchase Real Estate Scenario Live in whatifi
Watch as I quickly build multiple new home purchase and mortgage scenarios. No formulas. No spreadsheets. Instead, connecting together a series of Real Estat...
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Love th concept of the application. My only wonder/concern is do regular folks think like this? Though we think spreadsheets suck, most people think they are great.
You probably have a large enough user base to go after with this visual model! If you can continue to show different use cases - I think this will be great!
Thanks Chad, and you've nailed some of our early growth/awareness challenges. Not only does a solution need to be 5X to 10X better than the alternatives before people will switch up their approaches - but they have to actually be actively looking for a solution. And we are such a departure from the current way of thinking that onboarding. awareness, and learning curve will be an issue.
Part of the intention of the video series (which I intend to keep doing) is showing all of the uses cases and examples and convert some early adopters to get that flywheel going.
The end game is to work with B2B clients that will build these for their users as a communication tool. They'll spend the time to learn the tool and "think this way" for their clients.
Lots of ifs there - all part of the joys of the startup journey!
Nice! Sounds like you are on the right track. I will for sure follow along your videos - I think it was informative!
As part of my building in public - starting to build and share short videos of parts of the product and functionality. Trying a different strategy - instead of the big, polished, scripted videos that seem to take forever to build and edit - spending 20-30 minutes tops to screen record, edit a bit, slap some head and tail cards on the video, and post more frequently.
Also showing smaller slices of the tool in action as opposed to over arching feature sets.
Feedback welcome on this approach.
Here's something that I'm still trying to learn. Marketing is not a movie, it doesn't have three acts, you can and often should spoil the end. In that video you could have taken the end with the 4 threads and put it at the beginning, and then a "this is how it's built" section that's 90% of the video, but then most people got most of the value by watching the first 30s.
What tools are you using? Getting good at publishing ok (not amazing) videos frequently is such a powerful tool to have.
Great point!
I've got a background in film and TV post-production, so, in the past, I've got really caught up in making my videos. In some of my other videos, I've done as you suggested and shown the end result ("Here's what we are going to make today") and then worked our way there. Great reminder as this has been effective.
Lately, I've been trying to care less about the polish and simply post often.
Tools. I use Camtasia for the screen capture and basic editing. It does a great job of allowing the zooming in and out and has a lot more functionality than I am using in this video.
I'm also using a tool called Powtoons to make most of my animated explainer videos - which is quite powerful.
Lastly - Canva for most of my graphics. I'll dip into Photoshop as needed for those. Here's an example of a more polished video using those tools - https://youtu.be/fLMmGi52EY8
Polished video - 3-4 hours
Quick video - 30 minutes
I use Camtasia too. It's really good. I keep meaning to upgrade to the latest version. I wasn't familiar with Powtoons. I added it to my list of things to check out as I'll need a video for https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/bestie soon.
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