Nobody reads the manual any more

Why I built it

Nobody reads the manual any more. Documentation goes unread, FAQ pages go unskimmed, and the long onboarding email is archived in one click. What people will still do is click through something they can see: a real screen, a pointer to the thing that matters, the next step waiting when they are ready for it — at their own pace, skipping whatever they already know.

Meanwhile the people who should be producing that material have less time than ever. A product manager announcing a release, a sales engineer preparing a walkthrough, a marketing colleague building training for a launch: each of them is asked for a polished, interactive demo, and none of them has a week to make one, let alone remake it every release. That gap is why I built DemoForge.

What it gives you

You capture the screens of your real product, mark up what matters, and publish a link. A prospect explores on their own time, with no call to book and no demo environment to keep alive. The same demo doubles as a sales walkthrough, a training module, a support answer and a launch announcement, and it exports to PDF or PowerPoint when someone wants it offline. Nothing runs against your backend, so a demo never breaks at the worst possible moment, and every link is tracked, so you see what was opened and where people stopped.

Five things it does

1. Screens from your real product. Upload screenshots, or let the browser capture plugin pull screens and their state variants straight out of your running app.
2. Hotspots that explain themselves. Mark any element and write the explanation, or let Claude draft it from the screen and edit what comes back.
3. Voice-over and sixteen languages. Narrate each step in synthesized speech or your own recorded voice, then translate the demo and publish it in the reader's language.
4. Something to take away. Export an area to PDF or PowerPoint, or present the same demo yourself with speaker notes only you can see.
5. An ending that does something. Close with Book a meeting, Start a trial or Request access, pre-filled from the visitor's details, with an email or Slack message the moment someone clicks.

I am starting quietly on purpose. Every new workspace gets fourteen days of the full Professional feature set with no card required, and I would rather hear what breaks from twenty people than from two thousand.