<i>edit</i><p>Why didn't you just send people to <a href="https://scribehow.com/" rel="nofollow">https://scribehow.com/</a>? It explains the product so much.<p>I'd love to see some examples of this other than just little animations on the main screen. Right now it's just simple animations and a request to register.<p>The world is full of "solutions", as is my inbox from products I had to sign up for just to see what it did. Not sure I want to bother with that barrier to entry just to evaluate (and get on some mail list).
Hey all, looking forward to hearing your feedback on Scribe - a browser extension and desktop app that automatically generates step-by-step guides for any GUI-based process you choose to record on your computer.<p>Me and my cofounder originally set out to build an RPA tool. Along the way, we discovered that the bigger problem most teams were facing had to do with capturing and sharing each individual’s specialized knowledge. Most of this knowledge wasn’t written down, let alone stored in some sort of shareable format. With hybrid and remote working models becoming the new norm, this struck us as a problem that really couldn’t wait any longer, so we decided to address this need instead.<p>We wanted to create something that felt quite different to the manual and tedious nature that’s often associated with putting together process documentation or how-to guides. That meant that Scribe had to be able to intelligently recognize the key steps in your process, while still feeling very lightweight and easy to use.<p>The tool generates instructions and screenshots based on your clicks and keystrokes to build your step-by-step guide--to do this, there were a few key technical challenges we had to solve:
1. Going from a set of keystrokes and clicks to actual steps
2. Recognizing when to take the screenshot (i.e. before you do a key action)
3. Reconciling different DPI screens (pixel densities)
4. Automatically identifying and combining similar (but distinct) steps<p>We have Basic (free) and Pro (paid) tiers. Basic gives you a Chrome extension to record web-based apps while Pro comes with a desktop recorder so you can record any program on your computer. I’d love to hear your feedback on either. If you’d like to check out Pro, you can use the code HN2021 after you sign up for a one-month free trial.
I skimmed very quickly, and this seems pretty similar to the Windows built-in tool Problem Steps Recorder. I assume it's cross-platform, which is a nice advantage. Any other big differences?<p><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/record-steps-to-reproduce-a-problem-46582a9b-620f-2e36-00c9-04e25d784e47" rel="nofollow">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/record-steps-to-...</a>
Well this is really neat. As an engineer at a tiny startup "How do I do X in <our nascent internal tooling>" is a common refrain. I'm already pitching this internally - if this significantly cuts down on the time I spent writing up directions for people (and the time they spend being confused by my incomplete directions), it'll be worth its weight in gold. :)
Interesting idea, congrats on putting it all together.
Do you have any working examples of the end result? The landing page only had a few screen shots and it was not entirely clear to me what the results looked like.
Are users able to export or copy the created guides?
Are user accounts required to view the created guides?
Looking at an example <a href="https://scribehow.com/shared/Setting-a-great-LinkedIn-cover__fiCqoNZdThGfq1l7FM6leQ" rel="nofollow">https://scribehow.com/shared/Setting-a-great-LinkedIn-cover_...</a> I was expecting to see animations of the workflow (like Live Photos?).
I was assuming at first from the examples that this was just for web based applications. But I see it also supports desktop apps. Which OS?<p>I'm being picky but I'm also pretty intrigued. The idea is quite nice.
Is this a desktop app, a hosted solution, or self-hosted?<p>For work use, we need on-premise only and can’t have internal tools exposed/captured by external tools.