Congrats, your team just shipped an amazing feature that they have been working on for months.
Marketing is excited, product can’t wait for people to start using it, and the sales team can’t wait to show it off.
But there’s a catch. When is it going to show up in your demo environment? Next week? Next quarter? Maybe next year?
Demostack lets GTM teams create fresh demo environments in minutes with no engineering bottlenecks. Clone the app once, and when updates ship, drop the new slice into your demo or playbook without rebuilding everything from scratch.
The hardest part of cloning is just picking the parts of your app you want to show off and the product story you want to tell.
Let us show you how quick and easy it is to clone your app. Yes, even your “super complicated app that could never be cloned.” We can do that too.
Your homegrown environments are impacting growth
Before we show you how easy it is to clone your app with Demostack, let’s highlight some hidden costs of homegrown demo environments.
Anytime a new feature ships, GTM teams are left waiting weeks for a refreshed demo or scrambling to, as one customer put it, “build something with string and duct tape.”
When that environment finally shows up, it’s extremely not very user-friendly. Only SEs can update it or show off the product, creating bottlenecks that slow your sales cycle to a crawl and frustrate the whole GTM team.
Even worse, it doesn’t stay fresh for long. Small interface changes make demo environments go stale in just a few weeks.
We’ve even heard teams say it only takes a few days before their demo no longer matches the product. As one GTM leader simply put it: “By the time our demo was ready, the product had already changed.”
Reliability is another big issue with homegrown demos. Ask the CEO of Synack what happened when they tried to demo in front of a big client at Black Hat. Spoiler alert: black screen of death.
Cloning replaces all of that homegrown chaos with a clean, consistent demo anyone can spin up in minutes.
No delays. No bottlenecks. No scrambling to “make it work” hours before a big sales call. Just demos that stay current and keep your sales cycle moving.
How to clone your app + create a demo
We have been talking about how easy it is to create a clone of your app, so let’s finally do it. All you need to have in hand is the Demostack app and a link to your app. Get your stopwatch ready because this is going to be quick.
1. First, navigate to your Demostack workspace
2. Click the blue Create New button in the top right corner
3. Select Clone from the Create new drop-down menu
4. Enter the URL of your live app or website
5. Sign in to the app with your credentials, which won’t be shared
6. Hit the Start Cloning button in the top right
7. Click around to different pages in your app to clone them
8. All the front-end visuals and back-end functionality, like API calls, will be cloned instantly
9. Once you have cloned your ideal path or story, click Stop Cloning
10. Give the clone a descriptive name, select the right workspace, and click Save
You are done cloning! Wasn’t that easy? In a handful of clicks, you can create a pixel-perfect, fully independent sandbox of your product that is ready to customize and demo in a few minutes.
Now use the Demostack editor to customize text, data, images, and flows in that clone, then share as a live demo, tour, or sandbox. You can even start editing right after clicking Save:
Imagine walking into your next sales call with a fresh, customized demo of a feature that shipped yesterday. And not a single line of code or support ticket was written.
Cloning helps you create better demos
Understanding how easy it is for an AE or anyone on the GTM team to create a clone with Demostack is essential.
Once you clone your app or product, you can use it to power basically any demo you may have to give across the entire sales cycle.
But the value of cloning goes far past being able to create a new demo quickly; it will make you rethink your entire demo operations.
AEs can stop hunting for “golden nuggets” or the perfect moment in a live app. With a clone, you can create those winning “aha moments” in your product before the call and highlight them confidently in front of prospects.
Also, SEs and engineers can get their time back, instead of spending hours resetting demos or chasing down demo bugs. We can already hear them thanking you for using Demostack.
Teams like Synack used to burn ~20% of SE hours just maintaining fragile environments. They calculated it out, and it ended up costing them the same as hiring another full-time engineer. After switching to Demostack, builds dropped from over 100 hours to under 10, and new demos ship the same day product updates are live.
Cloning also keeps your GTM team up to date with a constantly changing product. When the UI changes or a brand new feature drops, anyone on your team can create a new clone of the live app and turn it into a new demo in no time.
Because it’s a clone of your live product, not a recording or a slide deck, it doesn’t break down in the middle of a call. Or on stage at Black Hat.
The best part of creating clones with Demostack is that the same asset can power leave-behinds, guided tours, or the sandbox your champion forwards to their team. One good demo turns into company-wide momentum and allows you to tell a consistent story across the entire sales cycle.
So stop gambling on a homegrown environment. Cloning with Demostack is how you scale a product story across your entire org without scaling chaos.
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See how Synack cut its demo prep time from over 100 hours to under 10 with Demostack:
Cloning FAQs
Creating a clone of your app with Demostack sounds like magic, and it is. No other company in the space offers such a powerful way to create and maintain demos.
Here are a few questions that come up when we chat with other companies about creating clones:
1. How long does a typical clone take with Demostack?
- A basic happy path can be captured in well under a minute. But you can clone your entire app, front-end and back-end, in just a few minutes.
2. Do we need SEs/engineering to create clones or maintain demos?
- Nope! Anyone you authorize on the GTM team can create clones and then edit those clones to create new demos or playbooks. You can add roles and approvals if you want more guardrails/security.
3. Does cloning touch our production environment or real data?
- A clone is a wholly separate demo environment. Any edits that are made to the cloned app do not ever impact the production app or modify databases.
4. What exactly gets cloned, and does it call our live APIs?
- The front‑end HTML/CSS, the backend network/API calls, and the data schema model are cloned. After you finish cloning, the clone operates completely separate from your live app and can effectively replace your backend for demos.
5. Are my credentials exposed to anyone who views the demo?
- No, you sign in during cloning just to your app, but viewers never see or use your credentials.
6. Our app changes weekly. Do we have to rebuild our demo every time
- Not at all! Simply re-run the Cloner on the updated areas of your app, then keep tailoring in the editor.
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Gainsight used Demostack to improve their win rate by 25% and cut 40+ hours of monthly demo prep time.
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