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Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

#11

I don’t really get the analytics proposition: I don’t design presentations to be read - I design them to be presented?

I often present on a conference call and then distribute the deck to all attendees afterwards. It'd be useful to know who subsequently opened the presentation and what they looked at.

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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I simply use Asciidoctor [0] to generate reveal.js [1] presentations. [0] https://revealjs.com/#/ [1] https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-revealjs/

I think it's funny that using the format of a presentation is a bad choice for this site. Takes forever to go through.

But really useful as a tool, so thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

#13

Hey all, Sizle is an alternative to PowerPoint for sales teams that need to see when their document was opened by a client, what slides they saw, time spent, and it can also automatically schedule a follow up with the viewer. Currently testing it with a bunch of companies here in Australia, but if anyone here is in sales and marketing I'd love to have you try out the (experimental) beta :)

This is creepy.

Do the customers know that they are being spied on?

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

#14

Hey all, Sizle is an alternative to PowerPoint for sales teams that need to see when their document was opened by a client, what slides they saw, time spent, and it can also automatically schedule a follow up with the viewer. Currently testing it with a bunch of companies here in Australia, but if anyone here is in sales and marketing I'd love to have you try out the (experimental) beta :)

Hey. I'm in Australia and have a back burner project that's about to become medium burner. I'm serious. Going to write an expression of interest for a grant over Christmas. Nearly at MVP stage. Will need customers soon.

You in Sydney?

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#16

Does it provide the following? * Presentations can be exported as PDF. * Presentations can be downloaded as a single stand-alone HTML file for offline presentation. * Presentations can be imported/exported from/to Powerpoint. * Collaborative editing.

Yep, I have just disabled export to PDF earlier as there was a rendering bug that will be fixed soon.

There is a patch coming in the new year with real time colab, export to PPT, local presentation modes and quite a few more features

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

#17

Hey all, Sizle is an alternative to PowerPoint for sales teams that need to see when their document was opened by a client, what slides they saw, time spent, and it can also automatically schedule a follow up with the viewer. Currently testing it with a bunch of companies here in Australia, but if anyone here is in sales and marketing I'd love to have you try out the (experimental) beta :)

This is creepy. Do the customers know that they are being spied on?

There is a myriad of document tracking, analytics and crm software out there in enterprise that captures a scary amount of data, Sizle does't do that.

Like any email campaign manager, Sizle tells you when your document is opened, and tells you how much time the user spent looking at it.

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

#19

Does it provide the following? * Presentations can be exported as PDF. * Presentations can be downloaded as a single stand-alone HTML file for offline presentation. * Presentations can be imported/exported from/to Powerpoint. * Collaborative editing.

Yep, I have just disabled export to PDF earlier as there was a rendering bug that will be fixed soon. There is a patch coming in the new year with real time colab, export to PPT, local presentation modes and quite a few more features

Is the local presentation mode a single file that can be transferred via USB stick to another PC that has no internet connection?
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