Competitor parity

Competitor parity

Where Foley lands relative to the docs / walkthrough tools judges (and customers) will compare it to. ✅ has it · ⚠️ partial · ❌ missing · ➕ Foley-only.

	Foley	Mintlify	Loom	Guidde	Arcade
Output	video + scrollable docs + .md	scrollable docs	video	video	interactive tour
Auto-maintained from PRs	✅ ➕	⚠️ (text only)	❌	❌	❌
Byte-identical re-use across versions	✅ ➕	n/a	❌	❌	n/a
YAML / MDX source-of-truth	yaml	mdx	n/a	n/a	json
Web editor / WYSIWYG	⚠️ (step editor only)	✅	✅	✅	✅
Auto-onboard from a GitHub repo	✅ ➕	⚠️ (template)	❌	❌	❌
Step proposer (Claude reads dev URL)	✅ ➕	❌	❌	❌	❌
Voice cloning (drop in your voice)	✅	❌	❌	⚠️	❌
WebVTT captions	✅	n/a	✅	✅	n/a
Click-to-jump transcript	✅	n/a	✅	✅	n/a
OG image / Twitter player / oEmbed	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Sitemap + robots	✅	✅	n/a	n/a	n/a
Per-page noindex + canonical	✅	✅	n/a	n/a	n/a
Hidden pages	✅	✅	n/a	n/a	n/a
llms.txt + skill.md + MCP manifest	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Open-in-LLM dropdown (Claude/ChatGPT/Cursor)	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Per-page Markdown export	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Ask-this-walkthrough RAG	✅ ➕	✅	❌	❌	❌
RSS changelog	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Custom CSS injection	✅	✅	❌	⚠️	⚠️
Custom 404	✅	✅	n/a	n/a	n/a
Custom domain	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
Auth / private docs	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
Multi-version selector	⚠️ (takes timeline)	✅	❌	❌	⚠️
Multi-language narration	❌ (deferred)	✅	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️
API playground / OpenAPI ingest	❌	✅	n/a	n/a	n/a
MDX-style components in docs	⚠️ (callouts + mermaid)	✅	n/a	n/a	n/a
Multi-level sidebar w/ search	❌	✅	n/a	n/a	n/a
Strict validator + link checker + a11y	✅ (director check)	✅	❌	❌	❌
Per-page feedback (👍/👎)	✅	✅	❌	⚠️	⚠️
Pre-flight system check banner	✅ ➕	❌	n/a	n/a	n/a
Resilient capture (one bad selector ≠ failed run)	✅ ➕	n/a	✅	✅	✅
Atomic state writes (no partial JSON)	✅ ➕	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

➕ marks features Foley has that none of the named competitors offer.

Where Foley wins

• PR-aware updates. No competitor diff a PR and re-run only the affected steps.
• Byte-identical reuse. Encoder params are pinned so unchanged segments are bit-for-bit the same across takes — provable via director diff-takes.
• Step proposer. Auto-draft a walkthrough from a live dev URL in 30 seconds.
• One YAML, three outputs. Same source drives a video, a scrollable doc, and a Markdown LLM-ingestible export.
• AI surfaces are first-class. llms.txt, skill.md, MCP manifest, Open-in-LLM, and Ask-this-walkthrough are all on Day 1, not bolted on.
• Resilience. A bad selector flags a step amber, doesn't tank the run; missing keys / malformed YAML get HTTP 412 / 422 with friendly messages, not stack traces.

Where Foley loses (and what we'd do)

• No auth. Every walkthrough is public to URL holders. Adding password / OAuth is a couple of days of work — not blocked, just out of scope for a hackathon.
• No multi-language. ElevenLabs supports it; Claude can translate; the schema field is teed up. ~3 hours.
• No API playground. Off-mission — Foley is for product walkthroughs, not API docs.
• No multi-level sidebar / search. The home folder grid is the only navigation. A Mintlify-style sidebar is a meaningful refactor.
• No custom domain. Localhost-only deploy story today.
• No MDX. We have callouts + mermaid via plain-text markup, but components-in-docs would require adopting MDX as the narration format.
• No PDF export. Puppeteer install (~150 MB) was deemed too heavy for the hackathon push.