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by thih9 1483 days ago
I played the example video ("how to change language in Slack"). I liked the result as a video, but I kept thinking that I'd like it even more as a regular article.

If the input is photo and text then I think I'd prefer to consume it by just looking at photos and text. What's the value of generating a video out of them?

For context, I do watch how to videos too, but I do that for actions that are harder to describe with just text and pictures; like learning an instrument, whittling, skateboarding, etc. It's very likely that I'm not the target audience.

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Yep, if I'm trying to find out how to do something I can do right now then I'd rather have an article. Otherwise I'd be pausing and rewinding a video multiple times.

If I'm just generally interested and it's not easy for me to do at that moment, then I'd rather have a video.

Since it's all generated I reckon an article and accompanying video would be a good product.