Minerva [Extendo 002]
Let Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, guide you on your internet journey.
Minerva
★★★★★ (4 reviews) • 👤 1,000+ users • View on Product Hunt
In a sentence...
Minerva is the easiest way to capture and share clickable instructions for anything on the internet!
What's the problem it solves?
Y’know how sometimes you’re trying to explain to someone how exactly you did some cool trick on some random website, but words just seem to confuse things? Of course there’d be no problem if you could just reach through your screen and point to exactly where to click and in what order, right? Well — this is exactly what Minerva enables.
Why do we like it?
The granddaddy of this genre is LMGTFY, short for “let me google that for you”, which conveniently demonstrates how — to anyone who’s been living under a rock for 20 years — exactly how to use the world’s top search engines:
In the case of Minerva — they’ve achieved something far more impressive, by embedding the instructions directly into the pages that you’re trying to explain.
All you have to do is look for their aptly named “Dottie” and follow the on screen directions, for example in this recipe for creating an email template:
Pro Tip: Email peter@minervaknows.com and let him know that Extendo sent you to get bumped up on the list to record and share your own recipes!
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