Seems like the live demo is bear hugged - been waiting for ~5 minutes now. A bit ironic given their landing page: Don’t make your prospects wait–ever again
In its current iteration this demo might net discourage your future clients rather than encourage them.
I like the idea in general as an alternative to needing to book with a BDE. I'd always prefer to just self serve for a new product; anything that gates my time (sales calls, popover walkthroughs, etc) is something I'd prefer to skip. But I know non-engineering customers really love these calls to see the power of a new platform. I wonder if they'll be as engaged during an AI walkthrough versus when there's a person on the other end of the phone.
> Don’t make your prospects wait–ever again
> [...] where prospects receive personalized demos, in a video call, instantly.
Demo:
> We are preparing the demo for you...
> Setting up your experience...
> We are experiencing very high demand
> Almost there...
It spins for... well I don't know because I gave up and navigated away after about 60 seconds.
I'm not super sure what architecture is in use that means that 16 minutes of being on the HN frontpage leaves it stalling out and unable to respond to requests after 60 seconds, but... it doesn't feel connected with the homepage messaging.
I absolutely appreciate (and have been subject to!) the HN traffic influx before, but for the nature of the product, when doing an _intentional_ Launch HN (not posted by someone else), it's fairly confidence-eroding to see the architecture fail to handle it in this way.
Really hoping that it's something transient and one-time that can be fixed – but surprised that there exist loading screens for this situation.
In its current iteration this demo might net discourage your future clients rather than encourage them.
I like the idea in general as an alternative to needing to book with a BDE. I'd always prefer to just self serve for a new product; anything that gates my time (sales calls, popover walkthroughs, etc) is something I'd prefer to skip. But I know non-engineering customers really love these calls to see the power of a new platform. I wonder if they'll be as engaged during an AI walkthrough versus when there's a person on the other end of the phone.
I'm not super sure what architecture is in use that means that 16 minutes of being on the HN frontpage leaves it stalling out and unable to respond to requests after 60 seconds, but... it doesn't feel connected with the homepage messaging.
I absolutely appreciate (and have been subject to!) the HN traffic influx before, but for the nature of the product, when doing an _intentional_ Launch HN (not posted by someone else), it's fairly confidence-eroding to see the architecture fail to handle it in this way.
Really hoping that it's something transient and one-time that can be fixed – but surprised that there exist loading screens for this situation.