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ellenfkh

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    Comment #45340656

    Our main tool (app.thorntale.com) is this concept! But yeah, the problem we've noticed is that without a lot of constraints, the generated presentations look very disjointed and te…

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    Comment #45340625

    It's definitely the next step -- adding the ability to tune the intended audience and (for instance) give them your specific context. The personas are a shortcut for more generic f…

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    Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI reviewers

    Hi HN! We (Thorntale) are a startup building presentation tools, we noticed that while people disliked the tedium of making slide decks, a lot of people actively dread presenting t…

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    Comment #40217028

    Pretty cool! The health insurance set would have been pretty useful when shopping for insurance.

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    Comment #39866980

    A couple of tools are moving in that direction, but oddly enough, it's mostly deeper analytics tools like Hex. The obvious player that should do this and hasn't is Google. They hav…

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    Comment #39866903

    That's definitely the ideal world, but in our experience everyone says they want dashboards and live data but everything ends up in presentations anyways. Fundamentally, it's the c…

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    Comment #39858625

    Oh that's not good. Thanks for catching it! I got a repro on my machine, we're working on a fix.

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    Comment #39858335

    Thanks! We've got a PostHog integration baking in our staging environment at the moment, and are working on Metabase and BigQuery next. What sources are you using for investor upda…

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    Comment #39857299

    Snapshots are on our roadmap! It's partially implemented already, we didn't quite have enough time to finish it before launch.

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    Comment #39856372

    Never mind, found it. Just deployed a fix, it should work now!

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    Comment #39856027

    There's a couple of embedding startups out there -- I think there was one doing embedded analytics in our batch earlier on, but I don't remember if they pivoted. Looker is especial…

  12. story
    Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data

    Hi HN! We’re Dori, John, and Ellen from Thorntale https://www.thorntale.com/ , a new tool for making data driven presentations. We make it easier for product, engineering, and data…