Source: https://asterly.co/ ✧ Less “let me show you again.” # Show it once. Send the guide. You know those screen-recording videos nobody gets around to watching? I’m building a better way. Record yourself doing a task once. Asterly turns it into a clean written guide, with screenshots. Something you can actually skim, search, and come back to. Just your email. No card, no grand commitment. [Email the waitlist](mailto:hello@asterly.co?subject=Asterly%20waitlist) if the form cannot run. For your future self. And whoever asks next. YOUR GUIDEready when you need it ↗ ## Invite someone to your workspace The “where was that button again?” guide. 1 ### Open your settings Head to Settings, then choose Members. SettingsGeneralMembersBilling Your workspace**Make room for one more.**\+ Invite a member 2 ### Send the invite Add their email. Pick a role. You’re done. Steps + screenshots. A link you can keep. [Here’s how it works](https://asterly.co/#how) Brian’s little workshop. The guide is real. Narrated video is coming. “Hang on, I made a video for this…” “Here’s the guide. Step two is the bit you need.” A small upgrade to your day. 01 / How it works ## Here’s a guide being made, start to finish. Inviting a teammate in a made-up app called Harbor. Scroll along — I’ve drawn the whole thing for you. [1 Capture](https://asterly.co/#how-capture)[2 Annotate](https://asterly.co/#how-annotate)[3 Publish](https://asterly.co/#how-publish) 1 Capture ### Press record and do the thing. Open the Asterly side panel in Chrome, press Record, and do the task the way you always do. Every click becomes a step: a screenshot, the thing you clicked marked on it, and a label taken from the page, like “Click Members.” _Took a wrong turn into Billing? Don’t start over. Keep going and tidy up afterwards. There’s a pause button if you need to go and look something up._ 2 Annotate ### Tidy it up like a person would. Delete the clicks that don’t belong. Rewrite a title so it says what you’d say out loud. Add a line of context at the step where people always get stuck. _This is the part that used to be cropping, pasting and drawing red rectangles. Now it’s just editing words._ 3 Publish ### Send a link. That’s the whole handoff. Press Publish and you get a link. Paste it in Slack, a ticket, or a reply to a customer. It opens as a plain web page in any browser. Nobody installs an extension, makes an account, or unzips anything to read it. _Should it stay inside the company? Keep it to your workspace and invite the team. When the process changes, fix the one step that changed. The link stays the same._ Meanwhile, in the real app ## That was a drawing. Here’s the real thing. Four screens from Asterly as it works today. The company in them, Fernwood Invoicing, is made up for the demo. - ![The Asterly recorder side panel mid-recording: the Asterly logo, connected to Fernwood Invoicing, guide title “Send your first invoice”, 3 steps so far, and Pause, Add step, Stop and send, and Discard buttons.](https://asterly.co/home/tiles/recorder-1040.webp) Demo data ### Recorder Record a task from the side panel in Chrome. Pause, add a step, then stop and send. AI writes the guide: numbered steps with screenshots. - ![Two crops from the Asterly step editor, side by side. Left: a soft glow highlight around the New invoice button, with a “New invoice” label under it. Right: the Highlight box panel with presets called Soft glow, Outline, Spotlight and Filled tint, and colour swatches.](https://asterly.co/home/tiles/editor-1040.webp) Demo data ### Editor Rewrite steps, reorder them, and mark up screenshots with highlight styles like outline, glow or spotlight. - ![The hosted help center for Fernwood Invoicing: “invoice” typed into the search box, and the matching guide, “Send your first invoice”, 4 steps.](https://asterly.co/home/tiles/helpcenter-1040.webp) Demo data ### Help center Keep your guides together in a hosted help center with search, on your own domain if you like. - ![The preview card for a shared guide: the Asterly logo, “Fernwood Invoicing help center”, the title “Send your first invoice”, 4 steps, the guide’s first screenshot, and the demo help center address help.fernwood-demo.test.](https://asterly.co/home/tiles/preview-1040.webp) Demo data ### Link previews Paste a guide link where previews show up and it appears as a card with the guide’s title and first screenshot. “My setup guide used to say 1\. Ask Sarah.”Sarah would like her afternoon back. 02 / Start with you ## Your notes first. The team’s go-to, naturally. I don’t think you should need a rollout meeting to start using a tool. Make a guide for the task you do once a month and forget every time. Keep it for yourself. Then send it to a teammate, a customer, or the next person who asks. When the guides need a home, put them together in a hosted help center. Start small. Let useful do the convincing. A little less knowledge stuck in your head. 03 / A place to find the answer ## Good for people. Readable by their AI, too. Sometimes you look up the answer. Sometimes you ask an assistant. Either way, the instructions should be there. Your hosted help center keeps your guides together. People get steps and screenshots. AI assistants get readable content through an `llms.txt` index. Same instructions. One place to keep them right. The “how do I…?” shelf - Set up the workspace - Invite the next teammate - Find that monthly report you + your people\+ their assistants A hosted help center. Minus the blank-page problem. A small, honest status note ## Built. Still early. The basics all work today. AI drafts the steps and screenshots from your recording, and you fix what it got wrong. Guides export as PDF or Markdown, and your help center has an `llms.txt` index for AI assistants. **Coming:** optional narrated video from the same recording. Public access is still a waitlist. Pricing isn’t set. I’m working with the first people using it and figuring out the rest with them. [Here’s where pricing stands.](https://asterly.co/pricing) What works today 1. Record a task once in Chrome 2. Edit the AI-written steps and highlights 3. Share it by link or a help center 4. Let people and AI assistants read it A note from the person building this ## Hey, I’m Yash. I’m building Asterly because explaining a task shouldn’t become a whole other task. You already know how to do the thing. I want you to show it once, have something useful to keep, and get back to your day. If that sounds like something you’d use, leave your email. When I write back, tell me the first thing you’d record. I’d love to know. Yash founder & unofficial repeat department Early access. No account to make here. [Email the waitlist](mailto:hello@asterly.co?subject=Asterly%20waitlist) if the form cannot run. A few things you might be wondering ## Fair questions. ### Wait, is this another screen-recording video? You record yourself doing the task, yes. But what you send is a written guide with screenshots. People can skim it, search it, and find the bit they need without scrubbing through those screen-recording videos. ### Can I just use it for myself? Please do. Save the task you always forget how to do. When someone else needs it, send them the link. You don’t need to get a whole team on board to make your first guide useful. ### How much of the writing does Asterly do? AI drafts the steps from your recording and puts screenshots alongside them. You can rewrite, reorder, remove steps, and add the context only you know. Give it a read before you publish. It’s your guide. ### Do readers need an account? No. A public guide opens as a normal web page. Just send the link. No extension or account needed to read it. ### What do you mean by AI-readable? Your hosted help center has an llms.txt index that points AI assistants to readable guide content. It gives them a way to find your actual instructions. It doesn’t promise that every assistant will use them or always get the answer right. ### Where can I record? In Chrome, for now. The people reading your published guide can use any browser. ### What happens when a step changes? Open the guide, edit what changed, and publish again. The shared link stays the same. Asterly doesn’t automatically notice changes for you. ### Can I have a narrated video too? That’s coming. For now, the thing to count on is the written guide with screenshots. I’ll say here when narrated video is available. ### What’s the price? I haven’t set it yet. I’m figuring it out with the first people using Asterly. There’s no checkout or card to add here. The pricing page has the commitments I can make today.