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points by docheinestages 3 days ago | 0 comments

I strongly recommend not doing this. When I see a mockup demo on a homepage, it signals one or more of the following to me:

- there is no product built yet, just a potentially one-shotted idea

- the creators are insecure or untruthful about what their product could do, hence faking it with a demo

- lack of effort to create real screenshots and walkthroughs of the product

[–] makoto12 3 days ago

This isn't a product though, it's just showing off an interesting idea, and telling you how to do it yourself

[–] realityloop 3 days ago

I created css animations on my very fully featured and actually developed products website for the pure purpose of making the site fast for users, they are smaller in file size than both images or video and don’t rely on JavaScript

[–] hauju 2 days ago

Stepshots itself is a product to build real product demos. But for showing features i prefer simple and clean animations.

[–] senordevnyc 3 days ago

It signifies none of this to me. I routinely see these on websites with mature existing products.