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Re: Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown

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Post by davidroetzel »

This seems to be quite nice. The generated slides look very good.

For everyone looking for a html based alternative: slideshow (or S9) [1] is a ruby tool that also lets you generate slides from markdown. It has output plugins for most of the popular html5/js-based presentation systems.

It is a nice tool but what I like even better is its mailing list [2]. It is a wonderful place to learn about and discuss alternative and/or related projects.

[1] http://slideshow-s9.github.io/ [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/webslideshow

Re: Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown

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Post by munchor »

davidroetzel wrote: post #11

This seems to be quite nice. The generated slides look very good. For everyone looking for a html based alternative: slideshow (or S9) [1] is a ruby tool that also lets you generate slides from markdown. It has output plugins for most of the popular html5/js-based presentation systems. It is a nice tool but what I like even better is its mailing list [2]. It is a wonderful place to learn about and discuss alternative…

There's also http://hast.me.

Re: Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown

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Post by droelf »

erikb wrote: post #8

There are so many ways to create an App without making it Mac dependent. Why did you choose that way? It's something I'm looking for but I'm like 99% on Ubuntu and 1% on Windows nowadays. *edit: From what I can see from the start page it's awesome! Would instantly buy an Ubuntuable version! 20 Bucks seems to be a good price.

It's not exactly the same, but UberWriter (disclaimer: I made it) is capable of Markdown -> Slideshow export, too.

More specifically, it's a functionality provided by pandoc.

Re: Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown

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Post by bertil »

This is very impressive.

One speculative question (because the Markdown would be mind-bogging for most of your users, but) do you plan on including animations?

I know those have got a bad rap after your lame colleagues at a company too big to be cool made whizz-bang into a series of horrible failed effects, but… well done, animations can help to explain complex things, a lot. There was a link to dozen of great examples yesterday on HN.

Re: Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown

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Post by chriseidhof »

bertil wrote: post #14

This is very impressive. One speculative question (because the Markdown would be mind-bogging for most of your users, but) do you plan on including animations? I know those have got a bad rap after your lame colleagues at a company too big to be cool made whizz-bang into a series of horrible failed effects, but… well done, animations can help to explain complex things, a lot. There was a link to dozen of great exampl…

We had a prototype, but it might take a while to do this right. So: maybe... but first, there's a lot of other things to do...

Re: Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown

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Post by king_magic »

I have a lot of hesitation about plopping down $20 without being able to try it first (which is why I generally dislike buying apps on Mac App Store). Too many unanswered questions. How does it handle text overflow? Is this going to go away it two months? Are new features coming (maybe export to PPT)?

I'm going to give it a try anyway, since it would be pretty damn useful to be able to whip up a presentation in a text file. I really hate arranging things in Keynote/Powerpoint. It takes forever. It's definitely struck a chord with me - so if I buy this, I hope that it gains more functionality.

Re: Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown

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Post by brador »

tbassetto wrote: post #18
chriseidhof wrote: post #2

And of course, I'm very happy to answer any questions!

I won't pay $20 without trying it first, otherwise it's like throwing money out of the window… Is there any plan for a downloadable trial version?

or they could offer a 24 hour or 7-day full refund?
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