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Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by astartupaday1 » Thu, Aug 16, 2012, 8:15 PM UTC

tharris0101 wrote: post #18

This looks beautiful. I'll download it tonight and mess around with it. One suggestion from the video and gallery: Everything looks like very nicely laid out title cards that don't really hold much information. Does the actual app allow for more data if needed? I know we all hate bullet-pointed PowerPoint, but the inclusion of things like charts and graphs, quotes, paragraphs of text, etc are sometimes needed in real…

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 automatically do things like limit the amount of text per slide, use consistent fonts and text placements, and add emotional impact to words with high-quality (no clip-art!) images. The constraints are intentional, and in fact was the inspiration for the name, as a Haiku is an art form that promotes creativity through constraint.

That being said, I think there are lots of opportunities in the future to help users add features like bullet points and charts, while still keeping it simple and guiding the users towards creating effective presentations.

Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by astartupaday1 » Thu, Aug 16, 2012, 8:18 PM UTC

ako wrote: post #19

Very nice app. Here's my wishlist: http://www.haikudeck.com/p/wpf2bbxWk9/haiku-deck-wish-list

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

Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by ctdonath » Thu, Aug 16, 2012, 8:20 PM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #16

I like this quite a bit. I had some goofy thing done and upon FB, Twitter, and .PPTX in ten minutes. It's best described as [Distillate of Keynote: iPad Edition]. The auto-license Creative Commons image siphoner is brilliant. It all looks good without effort. Theme swapping is effortless. My criticisms as a nobody: the "doodle font" on the overlays showing you what does what is too jaunty and busy for me to read quic…

Overall nice.

"Me too" on the multiple hangs requiring restart. Also seemed to have trouble making the help overlay go away: no tapping/swiping/pinching seemed to work; if it's timeout based it's too long.

Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by astartupaday1 » Thu, Aug 16, 2012, 8:22 PM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #16

I like this quite a bit. I had some goofy thing done and upon FB, Twitter, and .PPTX in ten minutes. It's best described as [Distillate of Keynote: iPad Edition]. The auto-license Creative Commons image siphoner is brilliant. It all looks good without effort. Theme swapping is effortless. My criticisms as a nobody: the "doodle font" on the overlays showing you what does what is too jaunty and busy for me to read quic…

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 list. I actually just added in a new first-launch experience, and I'm cleaning up a bug with those overlays, will be available in the next update.

Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by bobzimuta » Thu, Aug 16, 2012, 8:34 PM UTC

mattront wrote: post #15

randfish wrote: post #7

Love this product, but please, please, please get me a web version so I can build decks from a non-Apple device. I'm just not in deck-building mode on my phone or a little tablet.

Looks very well done! Shameless plug - we are working on something similar for the web: http://pllop.it

I'd suggest changing your name from pllop to just about anything else. Immediately.

  Pllop is the sound of a small pebble falling into a pond.

Americans associate a 'plop' sound with taking a poo, or as a verb roughly meaning to sit down quickly out of exhaustion.

Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by marcamillion » Thu, Aug 16, 2012, 9:01 PM UTC

This looks awesome....out of curiosity, I wonder how this handles numbers and graphs.

I imagine the vast majority of presentations do include some presentations of numbers and charts.

I don't see anything on the landing page that talks about it - and maybe the answer is you haven't built that yet (MVP and all).

Just thought I would throw it out there.

Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by astartupaday1 » Thu, Aug 16, 2012, 9:19 PM UTC

marcamillion wrote: post #26

This looks awesome....out of curiosity, I wonder how this handles numbers and graphs. I imagine the vast majority of presentations do include some presentations of numbers and charts. I don't see anything on the landing page that talks about it - and maybe the answer is you haven't built that yet (MVP and all). Just thought I would throw it out there.

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, tables, lens flares, or comic sans.

Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 16, 2012, 10:04 PM UTC

bobzimuta wrote: post #25

mattront wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks very well done! Shameless plug - we are working on something similar for the web: http://pllop.it

I'd suggest changing your name from pllop to just about anything else. Immediately. Pllop is the sound of a small pebble falling into a pond. Americans associate a 'plop' sound with taking a poo, or as a verb roughly meaning to sit down quickly out of exhaustion.

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Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by prezjordan » Fri, Aug 17, 2012, 1:27 AM UTC

This is stunning. But I found a couple issues.

- Crashes if I try to delete the two default presentations (unless I make one first) - Text in title and description boxes is always capitalized, and I need to hit shift on every keypress, very annoying.

Re: Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

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Post by DeepDuh » Fri, Aug 17, 2012, 1:37 AM UTC

tharris0101 wrote: post #18

This looks beautiful. I'll download it tonight and mess around with it. One suggestion from the video and gallery: Everything looks like very nicely laid out title cards that don't really hold much information. Does the actual app allow for more data if needed? I know we all hate bullet-pointed PowerPoint, but the inclusion of things like charts and graphs, quotes, paragraphs of text, etc are sometimes needed in real…

Exactly what I was thinking as well. Most Presentations are there to present data. I'd need at least bullets, tables and the ability to show multiple images (charts) for comparisons. Even if you only do sales pitches - how are you going to compare features, prices, traction etc. with this app?