Figma is better for pure design and has great built in collaboration too.
But I can see how Pitch can provide value to a whole lot of founders who might prefer not to reach for their design tools..
Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
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#102I use Google Slides _a ton_ and having a web based alternative is definitely interesting. Since I'm not a Mac user I've definitely yearned for Keynote-like animations etc. so this could be really useful. That said, something here doesn't seem to add up to me. Pitch is launching now, two years after being founded by seven founders, raised 50M(!) in funding and has 89 employees? I can't figure out why 1. they didn't la…
This.
I have always thought that investors have a half-baked exit deal before putting their money into these start-ups.
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#103So I REALLY don’t mean this to be cynical, but: other than this clearly being a beautiful product, and I guess the simple fact that it’s just not a Google product, what exactly does this bring to the table that Google slides doesn’t already do? I say this as a guy who spends a lot of time in Google slides, both on my own presentations as well as collaborating on group ones, and it works pretty much perfectly. If I we…
I also use Slides a lot. Slides is great for collaboration, but lacks a lot compared to other graphics applications.
Mainly, I find it difficult to make text look good in Slides.
* For instance, the line-height can only be set in multiples of the font size ("1.5x"). That makes it difficult to impossible to lay out text of different font sizes in a baseline grid. The multiplier can be adjusted for each line and font size but it's not precise enough, so the results look off.
* A large share of decks use bullet points and again the formatting options are very limited.
* No custom font support
* There is also limited support for importing vector graphics, e.g. SVG needs to be converted to a Windows Metafile/EMF (!) before importing. I assume that's done to simplify MS Office compatibility.
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#104Nice work pitch! The product is pretty awesome.
You need balls to get in a crowded area with players like Google and Microsoft.
But what I see is really some neat features like real time video while editing, following the cursor. Seems like a really well made collaborative software.
Good luck with the next steps! I'll give it a try for my next pitch :finger-crossed:
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#106Many people here asking for an example. Here's a real example of a pre-seed pitch deck that I'm using for my meetings with investors [1]. I'll explain why I like Pitch. I am a first time founder. I am a technical guy who have to be a jack-of-all-trades for the past 6 months. I am a type of guy who's really bad at designing slides. Leave me with PowerPoint or Google Presentation and you'll see the ugliest presentation…
Honestly for this kinda hype I expected something more beautiful. This is way behind beautiful.ai
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#107Anyone know how they're implementing the multiplayer video/voice chat? Is it over WebRTC or something else?
For the video+voice, it's WebRTC using Daily (YC W16)
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#108So I REALLY don’t mean this to be cynical, but: other than this clearly being a beautiful product, and I guess the simple fact that it’s just not a Google product, what exactly does this bring to the table that Google slides doesn’t already do? I say this as a guy who spends a lot of time in Google slides, both on my own presentations as well as collaborating on group ones, and it works pretty much perfectly. If I we…
Hi there, founder of Pitch here. That’s a perfectly valid question, and I don’t think you’ll be the last to ask it. Throughout our beta, we learned that people creating presentations for work end up using more than one tool to get the result they want. Slides for collaboration, Keynote for design, PowerPoint for charts, etc. Sure, Google Slides can be good enough — but it’s rare that people tell us it’s great. We wan…
Is the idea here that you can front-run all other VCs by collecting data about prospective investments as it's being formulated?
Do you sell user data, or analysis of that data, to VCs, investors, or other third parties?
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#109"Accept All" is the only option on your cookies? Not only is this a potential GDPR violation — additionally it told me enough about the way this project feels on my privacy to just close the page and move on without even checking what it is.
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#110It's funny how Microsoft has an absolute beast on their hand with Powerpoint, which has so many obscure and powerful features that their employees must be fuming at how it's all just there, and nobody uses them. Fractals, high-res fish models, it's Turing complete for Pete's sake. They could easily destroy their competition if only they got somebody in charge to do it.
For instance, the PowerPoint integration with Teams is slick, where you can independently navigate and then join the presenter again (at presenter's option). Or teams actually co-edit remotely while lead is presenting, team members are editing on the fly, and others/guests are viewing the presenter's choice of a native presentation or a window or a screen... not to mention any/all of this working on Surface Hub conference room touch screens.
I used to be a Keynote person, then Deckset, then a couple different markdown slide tools ... but for team based work these integrations have pulled me back into PowerPoint "at the office".
I still hate most of these tools though, slide-ware is where knowledge goes to die.