Showboat
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We redesigned this page with Showboat. Here's every step.

Your agent shows its work before it ships. Your team circles what's off. It fixes it.

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We build Showboat with Showboat. Every screen below is from this site's own redesign, captured by the agents that built it.

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Erik, founder Ruling on the Sketch “Landing hero” · why the hero kept its drawing

That was the old hero. This page is the screenshots: one redesign, every step in order, in the words people really wrote.

27 SepSketch

First, we voted on the design.

Before the drawing was built, our coding agents pushed three competing live mockups of it: a drawing of where the work piles up. Erik voted for The Jam on every decision, and circled what wasn't working yet.

The bottleneck moved: value-stream drawing for the siteSketch · 3 Directionsdecided
The Line0 votes

drag agent speed 1×–10× and watch the bottleneck migrate

The JamWinner

a pile-up through four funnels; overflow spills over the side

The Strip0 votes

a scroll-driven comic: the pile moves desk to desk

Placeholder Sketch viewer redrawn. Real Direction names, real vote, real Winner; the live mockups sit behind sign-in.

The overflow doesn't properly overflow into the bucket most of the time
Erik, founder Comment on the Sketch “The bottleneck moved” · Direction The Jam · 27 Sep
4 OctTake 1

Then the agent showed its work.

The agent ran the page on a local build, walked it, and pushed a walkthrough: ten Shots, desktop and phone, each with a headline and a narration of what is on screen. This is Take 1. Nothing had shipped yet.

Redesigning Showboat's landing pageTake 1 of 34 Oct · local build · 10 ShotsShot: the hero
Comments · 4 open
Erik, founder · circle 1

Hmm, this doesn't quite capture the essence of what showboat is solving. We should think about it from a value-stream point of view - engineers got MUCH faster, but the Product / UX teams typically do not show the same productivity increase. This means the bottleneck shifts away from engineers.

Erik, founder · circle 2

IF we could make Showboat's value-add visual and interactive, I think that would help a lot.

+ 2 more on the numbers strip and “Then it goes further”

Placeholder Viewer redrawn from Take 1's narration; the circles are Erik's real marks at their real positions. Shot images sit behind sign-in.

4 Oct4 Comments

Erik circled what was off.

Four Comments in eight minutes, each drawn right on the screen it is about. No meeting, no ticket.

Circle 1: Hmm, this doesn't quite capture the essence of what showboat is solving. We should think about it from a value-stream point of view - engineers got MUCH faster, but the Product / UX teams typically do not show the same productivity increase. This means the bottleneck shifts away from engineers.
Erik, founder Comment on Take 1 · the hero · 4 Oct
Circle 2: IF we could make Showboat's value-add visual and interactive, I think that would help a lot.
Erik, founder Comment on Take 1 · the hero · 4 Oct
Circle 3: It should be about shipped/week and how much was not properly reviewed. The counters should be "LIVE" counters given the interactive value-stream we discussed in screenshot 1
Erik, founder Comment on Take 1 · the numbers strip, on a phone · 4 Oct
Circle 4: The interactive value-stream should have a section on how everyone is now keeping up with the engineers. That's the place to add a section with references to Shows, Newsreel, Sketches and Like-for-like.
Erik, founder Comment on Take 1 · “Then it goes further” · 4 Oct
4 OctTake 2

44 minutes later, a new hero.

Take 2 landed 44 minutes after Erik's first circle, with a new headline that thinks in value-stream terms, the way circle 1 asked.

The hero of showboat.dev: Your engineers got 10x faster. Everything around them didn't.

Real Screenshot of showboat.dev today (25 Oct): the hero Take 2 introduced.

4 OctSketch

A smaller question got its own Sketch.

How do you get a visitor to try the next moment of the drawing? Three mockups, one vote, and one more circle from Erik.

I would like 'THEN?" to say - "Click me!" or something like it
Erik, founder Comment on the Sketch “Guiding the visitor to the next moment” · 4 Oct
The Jam's moment buttons with an inked arrow labelled CLICK ME! under the next one.

Real Screenshot of showboat.dev today: the arrow says “Click me!”.

5 OctTake 3

Take 3 answered every Comment.

The drawing went live under the hero. Its counters run off the drawing as it moves (circle 3), and its last moment is everyone keeping up, with each product named where it helps (circle 4). Take 3 marks each Shot that answers a Comment.

The Jam at moment 2, agents arrive: live counters 15 shipped a week, 1 shipped blind, 6 slowed down.

Real Screenshot of showboat.dev today: moment 2, the live counters.

The Jam at moment 4, with Newsreel: every station wide, KEEPING UP!

Real Screenshot of showboat.dev today: moment 4, everyone keeps up.

18 OctLike-for-like

Then we checked the sign-in door against the site.

The sign-in door had to look like this site. An agent measured both, screen by screen: five differences. It fixed them, measured again, and now all five are equal. One target we disputed: it had been measured against the wrong caption.

Login door vs showboat.devreference: showboat.devrebuild: the sign-in door18 Oct · 0 open Findings
First screen at 1440
equal · cover subline 18px / 28px
Pinned panel caption
equal · 13.12px
Primary bubble
equal · 24.8px, padding 14 / 34 / 12

Placeholder Like-for-like viewer redrawn. The rows and the measured values are the real ones; the side-by-side images sit behind sign-in.

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