Most product demos are a 40MB video nobody finishes or a $500/mo tool no bootstrapper can justify. Mirage is the third option: capture your real app in one click, add guided hotspots, and publish a clickable demo you can embed anywhere in ~90 seconds. Track views, completions, and per step drop-off so you fix the leak instead of guessing. Perfect for landing pages, PH launches, and onboarding emails. First demo is free forever.
Hello Producthunt, maker here 👋🏻
Quick story on why this exists: I was putting together a landing page and wanted to show the product without forcing people through a signup wall. My only real choices were "record another video which nobody watches" or "pay $500/mo." Neither felt right for a bootstrapped project, so I built Mirage.
The goal was simple: make an interactive demo feel directed, like someone's walking you through the product, not like an auto-generated click-map. That's where most of the obsession went like- the Cursor motion, Spotlight focus and the tooltip timing.
A few things I'd love your honest take on:
Does the capture flow feel fast enough? (target was under 90 seconds)
The first demo is completely free forever, no card needed, so you can start using it now!
I think you've picked a good angle here. Interactive demos feel much more engaging than another three-minute walkthrough video.
Have you been surprised by how people are using it so far, or are most sticking to the landing-page use case?
The per-step drop-off tracking is the part that makes this more than a screenshot tour; seeing exactly which hotspot people bail on is what you actually need to fix a launch page. When I capture my real app, is the demo a snapshot of the screens at capture time so it stays stable even if I ship UI changes the next day, or does it re-pull from the live app and risk breaking mid-demo? And can I capture an email at a specific step without forcing the signup wall you're pitching against?
Captured a demo of our little SaaS in under two minutes and the hotspot editor felt surprisingly smooth for something this fast. Drop-off tracking is exactly what I needed to fix our onboarding page.
the per-step drop-off tracking plus frozen snapshots is a smart combo. when you republish after fixing a leaky step, does the old version stay reachable so you can compare drop-off before and after, or does the new capture just overwrite it and you lose that history?
Ninety seconds to a clickable demo is impressive. The hard part is usually state isolation: capturing real product behavior without exposing live data or breaking authenticated flows. The tradeoff between intercepting API calls vs. DOM snapshotting is real, and each approach has different fidelity tradeoffs. How does Mirage handle authenticated routes? Does it replay requests or work from static snapshots?
Great timing for me personally — I'm mid-way through building a demo video for my own launch, and the "clickable" angle is interesting since most demo tools just produce a static walkthrough video. How are you handling the underlying app state for the clickable version — is it recording real interactions and replaying them, or simulating a fake environment? Curious how much fidelity you get without literally embedding the live app.
Finally, a realistic option for bootstrapped teams. The pricing barrier for interactive demo software has been absurdly high for a long time, forcing small teams to rely on boring Loom videos that drop engagement. Keeping the first demo free forever is a great move. Looking forward to testing this on our next landing page build!
Congratulations on the launch! The per-step drop-off tracking is the part I'd like the most: knowing where people abandon a demo is more useful than raw view counts. One question: for a product with a longer multi-step flow, does the capture hold up well, or is it best kept to a few key screens? We're weighing something like this for our own launch.
A lot of teams know people leave somewhere during a demo, but they dont always know exactly where the interest drops. That kind of insight seems just as valuable as the demo itself.
One small idea: have you thought about adding a way to tag hotspots as "must see" versus "optional"? That could help people build shorter demos for first-time visitors while keeping deeper content available for users who want to explore more.
Congrats on the launch! QQ - when someone re-skins a demo with an updated UI, does the choreography still hold or do the hotspots and cursor path drift off the new screenshot? Curious how much re-tuning a normal UI change costs before it feels directed again. Neat product!
90 seconds feels like a marketing number more than a real one - does that hold for a SaaS with a lot of conditional branches (different plans, permission-gated screens) or is that timing really just for a straightforward linear flow? genuinely curious where the limit is before you need to hand-edit the generated demo
"Clickable demo in 90 seconds" is a legit gap — every SaaS founder I know has a rough
Loom that dies of view-fatigue. How are you handling multi-step flows where the demo
diverges from the current UI (e.g., user changes button copy after recording)? Nice launch.
Congrats on the launch. That 'record a video nobody watches or pay $500/mo' framing is why I've had an empty demo slot on my own landing page for weeks. Since it captures the real running app: when I publish and embed it on a public page, does the demo replay the actual captured frames, or can I repoint those same steps at placeholder data before it goes live? Mostly thinking about what I'd want to swap out before it's out in the open.
Great idea! And perfect timing to me personally. I've been struggling to create an actual demo that explains well enough, and keeps audience attention long enough to show how my SaaS works at its best. This sounds like exactly what I would need. I'll be happy to give this a go after the answers to the previous questions in the comments are answered.
really good start ! I tried it myself right now and it works pretty fine ! I wound just share a feedback that I recorded my whole journey and send it to mirage but then it just disappeared ! hope you’ll fix that.
Apart from it everything is just sooo flexible and easy to use !
the per-step drop-off tracking is the feature that actually sells me, most demo tools stop at view counts and leave you guessing which step lost people. once you see a specific hotspot is where viewers bail, can you edit or reorder that step without recapturing the whole flow, or does a change mean starting over
About Mirage on Product Hunt
“Turn your SaaS into a clickable demo in 90 seconds.”
Mirage launched on Product Hunt on July 18th, 2026 and earned 214 upvotes and 46 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Most product demos are a 40MB video nobody finishes or a $500/mo tool no bootstrapper can justify. Mirage is the third option: capture your real app in one click, add guided hotspots, and publish a clickable demo you can embed anywhere in ~90 seconds. Track views, completions, and per step drop-off so you fix the leak instead of guessing. Perfect for landing pages, PH launches, and onboarding emails. First demo is free forever.
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