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The Best of the Best

• Ruby on Rails: 15 minute demo by DHH - inspired Elixir Liveview demo

• Docker: 5 minute demo by Solomon Hykes

• Twilio: Jeff Lawson short story, John Britton 6 min live demo - modern version

• Terraform: Armon Dadgar pitching Terraform in 18 minutes on a whiteboard

• swyx personal pick: The Most Underrated Keynote (from CNCF/KubeCon)

Historical Best

• Doug Engelbart's Mother of All Demos: wiki, 1h 40min video

• Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle: 54min talk

• Visual Basic 1.0: 3 minute demo by Bill Gates

• Steve Jobs NeXT demo of interface builder and enterprise object framework (HN comment, Video) and of course the 10 minute iPhone pitch

• Jeff Han demo of multitouch 6 months before iPhone demo

Platforms

• AWS: Jeff Bezos pitching EC2 in 5 minutes, and AWS in 40mins, and Jeff Barr's We Build Muck So You Don't Have To blogpost (modern version is "undifferentiated heavy lifting")

  • Honorable mention: 12 min Q&A (can we find a better link?). On S3: "It is hard to come up with a web application that doesn't need to remember things".

• Google Cloud Spanner: HN Recollection

• Google BigQuery: Felipe Hoffa examples (can we find better links?)

• Stripe: "7 lines of code" (demo link needed)

• Netlify: blogpost and 40min conf talk

• Heroku: 12factor.net and git push heroku master

• Cloudflare: TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 16min pitch

• Firebase: Googler Recollection, HN Launch

OSS

• React: Rethinking Best Practices by Pete Hunt.

  • Compare with original Jordan Walke talk - Pete Hunt's retrospective

  • honorable mention - David Nolen's Introducing Om

  • and Hackflow

• Next.js: Guillermo Rauch - 34min talk at React Conf

• Svelte: 35min conf talk

• Node (48min JSConf 2010) and Deno (26min JSConf 2018)

• Redux: 30 min React Europe 2015

• GraphQL: Zero to GraphQL in 30 Minutes - citation

• Meteor: 10 minute demo

• MongoDB: Great recent pitch from Mark Porter - historical pitch needed (pls recommend)

• Kubernetes: the Kelsey Hightower "Tetris" demo - 44mins

• Kafka: the Log blogpost by Jay Kreps

• TypeScript: just the website in 2022 is convincing to some

• Rust: "Fearless concurrency", or the Sawstop safe table saw as Steve Klabnik put it

• MongoDB: Good podcast pitch

jQuery landing page honorary mention.

AI/ML

• OpenAI Codex: 30 min live demo creating a fully functioning game in JavaScript using just plain old english.

• GitHub Copilot: definitive demo needed

• Explosion AI: blogpost - convincing

Editor's picks

Smaller projects that aren't as well known but do something well:

• Stackblitz: 6min demo, tweet

• Anaconda PyScript: demo by Peter Wang

• Remix.run: website uses some nice scrollytelling

Developer Adjacent and Misc Demo Inspiration

• Developer Adjacent:

  • Drew Houston' s Dropbox demo

  • Todd McKinnon's Why I'm Not Crazy presentation for Okta

  • Photosynth TED talk demo

• Idea Pitches:

  • CQRS and Event Sourcing - 1h talk, HN citation

  • Unix Chainsaw by Gary Bernhardt

• Light Table: HN

• Let's Encrypt twitter.com/mbleigh/status/1537866383710511..

• Figwheel-Clojurescript youtube.com/watch?v=j-kj2qwJa_E&t=598s