Shipping a "screenshots -> demo video" tool for SaaS founders
Hey everyone, i'm building a tool to make explainer/demo videos.
I guess everyone who tried making product demos that involve screen recording knows how much work it is.
Imagine you could make a nice looking video out of screenshots instead - now even if something breaks (something transient of course, if something breaks for real it's a p0 - go fix it!) you can adjust it, retake the screenshot and press export again!
If you just stitch the screenshots together it will look cheap and bland - that's not a "nice looking video".
This is where the tool I'm building will help you. You can add nice cursor effect here and there, add a zoom-in effect that will follow the cursor, a few sound effects and a voice over - and there you go, that's the "nice looking video" I was talking about!
It's dynamic, it looks polished, it's easy to make and update!
Give it a try here: usemont.com/onboarding-videos
The "retake a screenshot and press export again" workflow is underrated. Screen recordings break the moment one tiny UI thing changes and you have to redo the whole thing. Screenshots as the source of truth for demo videos is a clever framing. Do you plan to support auto-generating captions or voiceover from a script, or is that manual for now?
Captions are in alpha preview mode for now.
Not sure about the voiceover. Perhaps it could be valuable for some users, but i haven't planned adding it yet.
The 'screenshots → demo video' approach solves a real pain: screen recordings require a perfect run-through, while screenshots are atomic and can be retaken independently. For SaaS founders showing a flow with 8 steps, being able to fix step 4 without rerecording 1-7 is a meaningful improvement.
The cursor effect + zoom-in + voice layer is the right scope for v1. The main risk with this category is that the output quality ceiling matters a lot — buyers compare against Loom and Synthesia, so the bar for 'polished' is high. The 'screenshot-based so you can update it easily' positioning is a real differentiator that other tools don't have.
One use case worth testing: changelog/feature announcement videos. These are high-frequency (monthly), low-budget, but benefit enormously from a consistent professional look. A SaaS that ships updates monthly would want to create these repeatedly, which makes the 'easy to update' value prop most compelling.