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@PeterGuy326 PeterGuy326 commented Jun 4, 2026

What & why

The README's above-the-fold currently opens with a static product image followed immediately by an enterprise-authorization IMPORTANT block. For a first-time visitor that buries the value proposition and leads with friction ("you need enterprise admin authorization") before they ever see why dws is useful — which hurts discovery and star conversion, especially for the global GitHub audience.

This PR restructures the first screen for discovery/conversion, without removing any information.

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  • Hero = animated demo GIF — replaces the static product shot with a ~19s GIF showing the real CLI: two agent-style requests whose exact API call is shown transparently as structured JSON (dws contact user search … --dry-run, dws aisearch person … --dry-run), then the one-line product pitch.
    • Recorded with VHS; the .tape is committed (docs/assets/dws-demo.tape) and reproducible with vhs docs/assets/dws-demo.tape.
    • No PII / no side effects — uses only --dry-run, so nothing touches real enterprise data.
    • File: docs/assets/dws-demo.gif (~182 KB).
  • One-line value hook + a copy-pasteable quick-start example above the fold. All example commands were verified against the current CLI (dws contact user search --query, dws calendar event list, dws aisearch person --query).
  • GitHub stars badge (flat style, consistent with the release/CI/coverage row).
  • Moved the Co-creation / enterprise-auth IMPORTANT block (with the DingTalk group QR) down into Getting Started — kept verbatim, just no longer the very first thing a visitor reads.

Diff size

README.md / README_zh.md restructured above the fold, plus the GIF asset and its .tape. No content removed.

Follow-ups (not in this PR)

  • For a richer "agent finds a person / event" money-shot, re-record against a sandbox org with synthetic data (this PR's GIF leans on the --dry-run request preview instead).

@PeterGuy326 PeterGuy326 force-pushed the docs/readme-demo-gif-and-hero branch from c38c2de to 77315df Compare June 5, 2026 02:44
Restructure the above-the-fold of both README.md and README_zh.md for
discovery/conversion, without removing any information:

- Replace the static product image with a ~15s animated demo GIF
  (recorded with VHS; real CLI output, no PII, ~200 KB)
- Add a one-line value hook + a copy-pasteable quick-start example
  (all example commands verified against the current CLI)
- Add a GitHub stars badge and a lightweight star CTA
- Move the Co-creation / enterprise-auth IMPORTANT block down into
  Getting Started (kept verbatim, just no longer the first thing read)

Rebased onto current main; command/product counts aligned to 330/18.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@PeterGuy326 PeterGuy326 force-pushed the docs/readme-demo-gif-and-hero branch from 3ee2158 to f56de53 Compare June 5, 2026 03:09
…ble tape

- Re-record demo GIF: the old one read "19 products · 334 commands",
  which contradicted the README hero ("18 products · 330 commands") and
  the 334 figure appeared nowhere else. New GIF shows the real
  `--dry-run --jq` output (structured JSON) and the correct counts.
- Add docs/assets/dws-demo.tape so the GIF is actually reproducible (VHS).
- Star badge: drop style=social so it matches the flat release/CI/coverage row.
- Trim the above-the-fold star asks down to the single badge.
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