You guys gotta download this app and check it out...this thing is amazingly cool!
Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations
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#12I came in preparing to hate, but must admit they beauty and simplicity pretty much won me over. It's like Prezi but for humans :)
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#13Love 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.
Thanks, glad you like it. Actually our initial plan was to launch the web version and tablet version at the same time, but we decided to focus 100% on the iPad for the v1 launch, and use feedback (like this) to determine the next platform to expand to. We're a team of three so we're trying not to get spread too thin. :)
Initial platform choice aside, I think this was the right course of action. For three of you (all technical?), launching on two high-quality platforms simultaneously would be asking for trouble. For those of us that don't have our iPad in front of us at the moment, could you explain the Bento IAP is and what we get for that $15?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, glad you like it. Actually our initial plan was to launch the web version and tablet version at the same time, but we decided to focus 100% on the iPad for the v1 launch, and use feedback (like this) to determine the next platform to expand to. We're a team of three so we're trying not to get spread too thin. :)
Initial platform choice aside, I think this was the right course of action. For three of you (all technical?), launching on two high-quality platforms simultaneously would be asking for trouble. For those of us that don't have our iPad in front of us at the moment, could you explain the Bento IAP is and what we get for that $15?
The app is free and ships with 5 professionally-designed "themes" that can be applied to customize the presentation with different fonts and image filter options. We included an additional 10 themes that can be purchased for $1.99 each, or you can buy the "Bento Box" pack that includes all 10 themes for $15.
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#15Love 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
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#16I 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 quickly. I had multiple sluggard-hangs on the Deck chooser (iPad 2, ios5) that left me with dead UI requiring a restart. And the first launch experience is just a little too busy to take in. Nothing fatal at all, but I don't feel in control when things are happening with every touch. It feels weird when I can manipulate the screen when the explanatory help overlay is on.
This is really good work, and it has succeeded in making Keynote look fussy. Thank you!
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#17This is really well done.
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#18This 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 business presentations. If the app does allow for this sort of thing, then the video maybe should be updated to show some more variety. Otherwise, it might be something to think about for the next release.
Anyway, it looks great! Good work guys.
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#19Very nice app. Here's my wishlist: http://www.haikudeck.com/p/wpf2bbxWk9/haiku-deck-wish-list
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#20This looks very attractive, but I suggest reading slide:ology, Presentation Zen and such. Haiku looks like it will make beautiful backdrops for a talk, but the sharing of "slideuments" is a bug, imho.
There's either too much detail in the slides to keep them from being distracting from the actual talk or too little detail to make them useful as a standalone document.