ZapTheater VS Waitlisty.io

ZapTheater's answer

Because ZapTheater presentations autoplay on the internet, they are often perceived as video. While video cuts a tunnel into your screen, ZapTheater uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript to manipulate text and images to generate dynamic presentations. For those occasions where video is appropriate, ZapTheater presentations can include video too. While ZapTheater uses a slideshow concept, each "slide" is a html document that can merge with the next "slide" seamlessly - the viewer is not aware that there was a transition. Because each slide is a HTML document, the full power of the internet is at your fingertips. Slides can query your SQL database to: - recognize specific viewers from code that you embed in the calling url - update your database from user input - branch to other ZapTheater presentations (eg. provide details) and then return to your primary presentation - pause to play videos (videos can also be set to play inline) There are 3 different ways to include video for 3 different purposes - in short, each slide has the full power of the internet at it's disposal because it is an html document

Waitlisty.io's answer:

Waitlisty lets you create a custom email collection form without writing any code. Just sign up, create a project and copy / paste two lines of code into your website. Get up and running in 5 minutes.

ZapTheater's answer

Video is our main competitor - It's easy to make changes to a slide, add and remove slides, insert/remove sideshows and videos - ZapTheater can include videos, videos cannot include ZapTheater presentations - You can create presentations with ZapTheater then record to video Regarding presentation software competitors: - ZapTheater puts the full power of the internet at your disposal - ZapTheater presentations can autoplay on the Internet - For presentations made by presenters, ZapTheater manual mode provides the full power of the Internet in each slide that you show

Waitlisty.io's answer:

Waitlisty stores your collected emails so you don't have to. We'll never sell you or your submitters' data.

ZapTheater's answer

Powerpoint users, businesses who update their sales force, business to customer presentations, family albums

Waitlisty.io's answer:

Our primary audience is someone who doesn't want to bother building their email collection form. Waitlisty's no-code form builder will get you up and running in 5 minutes.

ZapTheater's answer

In 2000, HTML 4 came out, the first support for images and html files. Those were the days of AOL and dial up internet connections. I had a T1 connection for my business, 1500 mbps transfer rate. The only browsers were Netscape, Safari and Internet Explorer. In 2005 I wrote a slideshow program in Pascal that was, I believe, the first dynamic presentation program on the internet. The Westminster Police dept gave me a fun story to tell. Over the years I converted it to other languages like Python and PHP. I still have the PHP source code and plan to recreate the original version when time permits.

I did not have time to screw around with it so some time around 2015 I recorded it as a video, you can watch at https://coptoons.com. (or youtube coptoons.com Frank Loughry). Note that I was able to add new slides at the end to document the Westminster Police reaction. That is a great ZapTheater feature, you can update the presentation after events develop.

Waitlisty.io's answer:

Waitlisty came about because there needs to be a simpler, more affordable solution for collecting and storing something as basic as an email. Other services are bloated with features. Waitlisty is exactly what you need - a way to collect and store emails for your next product launch. With gamification built in.

ZapTheater's answer

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Waitlisty.io's answer:

Emails are stored in a secure postgres database. Our frontend is built with NextJS.