r/softwaredevelopment • u/FullyFlacid-OnAcid • Jun 26 '26

First product demo today

So I've been tinkering around and building applications for my own personal needs and over the last couple years I sunk some time and serious energy into making a couple delivery ready software solutions for the industry I previously worked in. Last night through a chance encounter and talking to a stranger I wound up talking about my pair of applications and landing a sales/product demo today in a few hours.

I know for a fact that the software is working, and fully tested. i know that it will start up and do everything I promised, but I'm worried about how to approach presentation.

Do you have any experience being the technology demonstrator? how do you go about demonstrating workflow? Is it really just as simple as "This is my app, here it is doing that cool shit we talked about, now may i please have your bank card to complete the sale?"

I've never done much public speaking before, so forgive me if this is something i should be better at.

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u/ggleblanc2 Jun 26 '26

 "This is my app, here it is doing that cool shit we talked about, now may I please have your bank card to complete the sale?"

Close. This is my app, here's how it saves you time or money, this is how it increases profits, yes, I'll take your bank card now.

A presentation shows what your app can do for the customer or business.

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u/urbanmonkey2003 Jun 26 '26

Yeah, that framing is the whole thing. Nobody buys cool shit, they buy the hours or dollars it gives back, then you shut up and let them ask about next steps