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Re: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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Post by ashiban »

When I was putting together the pitchdeck for our startup I wanted to search for slides to learn from - but I was looking for specific sections or types of startups for slide decks. I had to open tens of decks and scroll through them which sucked. So I decided to make a tool that would allow me to search inside the decks more easily. Happy to answer questions

Re: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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Post by lming »

ashiban wrote: post #2

When I was putting together the pitchdeck for our startup I wanted to search for slides to learn from - but I was looking for specific sections or types of startups for slide decks. I had to open tens of decks and scroll through them which sucked. So I decided to make a tool that would allow me to search inside the decks more easily. Happy to answer questions

Nice project for looking for pitchdeck references. Thanks for building and sharing it. I am curious about the tech behind it - are you doing OCR on images? The search is very responsive - it's definitely not elastic search, curious what index/search system are you using?

Re: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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Post by gnabgib »

Other products in this space: OpenDeck (2020-Oct-11, 47 comments, 203pts)[0], PitchDeckHunt (2020-Mar-26, 3 comments, 6pts)[1], BillionDollarPitchDecks (2022-03-23, 17 comments, 80pts)[2]

A question of where the decks where sourced and whether there's rights to redistribute sometimes comes up.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745542 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308267 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783677

Re: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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Post by gnabgib »

lming wrote: post #3
ashiban wrote: post #2

When I was putting together the pitchdeck for our startup I wanted to search for slides to learn from - but I was looking for specific sections or types of startups for slide decks. I had to open tens of decks and scroll through them which sucked. So I decided to make a tool that would allow me to search inside the decks more easily. Happy to answer questions

Nice project for looking for pitchdeck references. Thanks for building and sharing it. I am curious about the tech behind it - are you doing OCR on images? The search is very responsive - it's definitely not elastic search, curious what index/search system are you using?

You might enjoy the blog post[0] (150GB of images, tesseract OCR, 2GB of data, Algolia for search). There's a github repo too[1]

[0]: https://www.alashiban.com/search-the-deck/ [1]: https://github.com/klothoplatform/klotho

Re: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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Post by ashiban »

lming wrote: post #3
ashiban wrote: post #2

When I was putting together the pitchdeck for our startup I wanted to search for slides to learn from - but I was looking for specific sections or types of startups for slide decks. I had to open tens of decks and scroll through them which sucked. So I decided to make a tool that would allow me to search inside the decks more easily. Happy to answer questions

Nice project for looking for pitchdeck references. Thanks for building and sharing it. I am curious about the tech behind it - are you doing OCR on images? The search is very responsive - it's definitely not elastic search, curious what index/search system are you using?

Glad it helps! There are 4 key steps that I took: - Upscaling (using Upscayl[0]) - OCR (using tesseract[1]) - Indexing (using Algolia[2]) - Scaling the processing and running on AWS (Klotho[3] - our startup)

I wrote a more in-depth blog post about it[4]

[0] https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl [1] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract [2] https://www.algolia.com/ [3] https://github.com/KlothoPlatform/klotho [4] https://www.alashiban.com/search-the-deck/

Re: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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Post by ashiban »

scrollaway wrote: post #6

What's happening with some of your slides? The text looks like it's drunk. https://search-the-deck-images.s3.amazonaws.com/MONZO__5.png...

the source images of some of the slides starts too low resolution for the upscaling algorithm to recognize/improve it - so it gets all mangled up

Re: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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Post by ohyoutravel »

This is cool, I was in a similar position when I was going to try to raise some money for a potential product (which I didn’t end up doing…). I was thinking about putting something together like this for fun out of the hundred or so of decks I downloaded and had found online, but wasn’t sure how to go about requesting permission from all the deck creators and even managing how to find them. So I didn’t go through with it.

The fact that you were able to get permission from all these people, with an order of magnitude more decks than I had is astounding! Kudos, do you mind if I ask about the secret sauce to how you were able to get all these deck authors to agree to let you use these on your site?

Re: Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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Post by ashiban »

ohyoutravel wrote: post #9

This is cool, I was in a similar position when I was going to try to raise some money for a potential product (which I didn’t end up doing…). I was thinking about putting something together like this for fun out of the hundred or so of decks I downloaded and had found online, but wasn’t sure how to go about requesting permission from all the deck creators and even managing how to find them. So I didn’t go through wit…

I aggregated from other aggregators - not the deck authors directly
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