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astartupaday1

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About astartupaday1

Co-founder of Haiku Deck. You can contact me at kevin at haikudeck.com

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    Comment #6013912

    We've been a happy paying Testelf customer since I first learned about it on HN several months ago. We save so much time by just sending over our beta builds without having to writ…

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    Comment #5305658

    Seattle, WA - Haiku Deck - iOS developer, Front-End Web Haiku Deck, a venture-backed Seattle startup, is hiring full time iOS and front-end web developers to shape the future of ou…

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    Comment #4424283

    I'm the developer of Haiku Deck. Chute is powering a core piece of our functionality, and they've been a joy to work with. Our early beta testers were asking to import their own im…

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    Comment #4393709

    Yep, for v1 we don't have support for charts/graphs, but it's on the roadmap. In the meantime, we do have the option to export to PowerPoint for users who want to include graphs, t…

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    Comment #4393471

    Thanks, glad you like the image search (it was a lot of work!) :) Sorry for the issues on the deck chooser, I've been meaning to re-write that for a while and will bump it up the l…

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    Comment #4393447

    I love this, thank you. :) I added a bunch of these ideas to our Trello board.

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    Comment #4393433

    Thanks, appreciate the feedback. One of the goals we have is to make you a better presenter. For v1, we researched presentation best practices and built the app so users automatica…

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    Comment #4393066

    The app is free and ships with 5 professionally-designed "themes" that can be applied to customize the presentation with different fonts and image filter options. We included an ad…

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    Comment #4392882

    Thanks, glad you like it. Actually our initial plan was to launch the web version and tablet version at the same time, but we decided to focus 100% on the iPad for the v1 launch, a…

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    Comment #4392542

    Thanks, that's a great suggestion. We're getting some pretty diverse decks that our users have started to create, we'll start featuring those in the gallery soon.

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    Comment #4392376

    We built Haiku Deck because we hated boring PowerPoint presentations. We stripped out most of the features of a traditional presentation software and built it from the ground up to…

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    Comment #4069990

    The same thing happened to me. Chrome 19 on Lion. Just visited the site and within seconds I had an email from you guys saying I had created an account, even though I didn't click …

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    Comment #3270992

    FYI - if you can make do with smaller images (50x50 or lower), you can use the param 'type=square' to pull Facebook's standard square photos. For example, graph.facebook.com/ID/pic…

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    Comment #3227357

    Feel free to use any of the ideas from my "A Startup A Day" blog: http://astartupaday.wordpress.com

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    Comment #1791394

    I totally agree. The value of ideas is zero, but by making a list like this, you start to build your own internal filter for ideas. That filter, in my opinion, is actually quite va…

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    Comment #1778373

    I'm the author of the 'A Startup A Day' blog listed above. There several hundred ideas on the blog, but feel free to email me and I'm happy to help you pick out a few that fit what…

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