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Ashok Raju

Presto - A new way to create beautiful and intuitive how-to guides

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Create intuitive how-to guides that quickly resolve customer support tickets. Easily organize a series of screenshots and video walk throughs that you can instantly share with your customers.

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Richárd Zoltán Tóth

It's a bit too simple at this moment, but this can be great in the future.

Pros:

Easy to use.

Cons:

No ability to add files other than pictures and videos.

Ashok Raju
Maker
@richard_zoltan_toth thanks for the review! Curious to hear what additional features would you like to see in the future? What types of file formats would you like to add? Appreciate your feedback :).
jepatel
This is great. Feature request: the ability to add images into the preso directly from Google image search.
Ashok Raju
Maker
@jepatel Interesting idea. So I assume you can easily screenshot your own product from your computer, so what kind of images would you grab from Google image search?
Mike Sela
Looks like a frictionless way to share demos, support ticket information, or pretty much anything where you need to show how something does or doesn't work!
Ashok Raju
Maker
@mmmmmikes "or doesn't work!". That's a really good point. This would make bug reports so much easier for users! Thanks for the feedback :)
Sonya Jain
Love it! I can see our customer support team finding this useful
Vig Shetty
Love it. Great idea and design!
Justin de Guzman
Great job Ashok, this looks awesome!
Ashok Raju
Maker
@justindeguzman_ Thanks Justin :).

I request some features: 1. Inline embed feature: I can embed directly Presto content to my blog posts. 2. HTML support: I can drive the customer to other Presto project or my pages. 3. CNAME and white label: I can hide Presto branding 4. Media URL import: I can skip the upload from my computer and upload from URL that super fast and useful. 5. Comment support: customer can leave their comments. 6. oEmbed support: I hope a feature just copy the Presto link and paste to my content and it change to the content. It look like Youtube does. 7. Markdown support: if you don't support HTML for some security reasons, please support Markdown as Trello did.

Pros:

Fast and useful for support

Cons:

only photos and videos.

Ashok Raju
Maker
Hi everyone! Excited to post my first ever product on ProductHunt :). I created this tool because I personally kept having to share how-to's, product demos and explainers with several people over email. I realized I was doing the same thing over and over: create a step by step guide with text, images and videos. So I built a tool that made this process super easy. To see how it works, here's a product demo of how you would create a product demo (inception!) on Presto: https://www.getpresto.co/s/seDSw... And here's an example product demo for slack: https://www.getpresto.co/s/keH46...
Sam Rye
@ashok_raju looks nicely done. Out of interest though, how is this significantly better than, say a knowledge base article with step by step headings in a flow down a page?
Ashok Raju
Maker
@samrye_enspiral Thanks for trying Sam! Yeah that's a good point, but I found myself and others in Customer Support having to still respond with one off instructions (over email for example) to users with unique issues/questions. Do you use a knowledge base wiki? If so, how easy is it for you to create something like this and share?
Yuna Akazawa
@ashok_raju Really nice and simple product! It would be great to be able to do screen shots or screen captures directly from the product. Maybe with a chrome extension or desktop app?
Ashok Raju
Maker
@yuna_akazawa1 Thanks for the feedback! I'm definitely considering this to make it even easier to create the media itself.
Sam Rye
@ashok_raju I've worked with various forms of customer support before. I would probably use a KB wiki (whichever - they're much of a muchness) and use Loom to do video grabs and walkthroughs, then just embed in the page.
Kaushik Thirthappa
@ashok_raju I can't hear the background music on the slack video. Also, how can i embed this on my own website?
Ashok Raju
Maker
@ktkaushik Hey Kaushika thanks for trying the product! Regarding video and audio, my thought process was that audio requires users to put on headphones making it more difficult to consume. I was initially thinking of only supporting images and GIFs, but it was easier to just allow audio-less video. Very open to learning and improving the product based on your feedback - how important is audio to you? What are your thoughts on the product restricting this to make it easier for users to consume? Also right now there is no way to embed, but feedback noted!
Alex MacGregor
This is a really nice idea. Solves the problem of having to develop custom content for customers that would normally cost a lot. More than than, saves time. Congrats on the execution.
Ashok Raju
Maker
@ajmcgr thanks Alex!
Tom Bielecki
Cool. What's the pricing model?
Ashok Raju
Maker
@tombielecki it's free right now while it's in beta, but will be looking to charge a monthly subscription fee.
Lachlan Kirkwood
Looks like a really useful tool to use within my agency for clients! Any plans on adding analytics to analyse the engagement on each demo?
Ashok Raju
Maker
@lachlankirkwood thanks Lachlan for trying the product! It currently already provided some analytics. From the editor screen if you click stats in the top right you'll be able to see unique views, location and time spent. What other analytics would you be interested in?
Nick Machnik
Nice and easy to use, but would benefit immensely if there was a function to at least edit video/image size and placement, same goes for text. For example, to be able to add image on the half of the card and some text explanation on the side. Other than that, works perfectly fine.
JDM

Probably have written my fair share of knowledge transfer docs this is a better tool than powerpoint / g drive

Pros:

Pretty useful and straight to the point

Cons:

A bit too simple, maybe the ability to hide the presto branding

JDM
I was looking for a way to remove a card at the top right area took me awhile to realize it was located as a sub menu on the card component itself
Hamrit Sidhu
This is super useful for engineers as well! I can see my team using this to set up on-boarding developer guides.
BΞN
I've signed up a few days ago and I really like it! Question to the maker of Presto @ashok_raju how come the startpage of presto is now displaying a complete different service (sales collateral, live chat and analytics)? Are you shutting the how-to guide service down???
Ashok Raju
Maker
@hi_iamben Can you confirm that it's still an issue. We fixed a few things and it should be back up.