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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.

Thanks for the feedback, we’re looking at how we can change up the page a bit to make it a more digestible.

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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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?

The local presentation mode will be a joint release with a Desktop app that can be used without internet access, it won’t include portable files at this stage but it’s on our roadmap.

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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Sorry to anyone trying to visit the website, the traffic from HN has killed it :( Here's the direct login link http://dashboard.sizle.io/ And here's the PH post if you want some more info until it's stable again https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sizle-3

I've always wondered how much traffic a site receives when on the front page of HN. Would you mind sharing some stats, and your server size? And perhaps what was the breaking point was for your server in terms of traffic? Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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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.

Instead of whatabouting it, maybe you can answer sadfklsjlkjwt’s question: do they know this is happening?

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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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.

> single stand-alone HTML file for offline presentation.

TBH HTML isn't a really good format for stuff like this, as HTML is text-only. Same goes for HAR. The moment you want to embed large images/video you run into size problems.

It would be really nice if browsers supported some kind of archive that contains multiple resources like images, wasm files, etc, that would all be accessible by the browser if you open it. file protocol is basically being deprecated by chrome for stupid security reasons: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1200

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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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.

Instead of whatabouting it, maybe you can answer sadfklsjlkjwt’s question: do they know this is happening?

Recipients of Mailchimp campaigns have the same experience as recipients of Sizle presentations. They’re not told the sender will be notified when the document is opened however this type of tracking is fairly commonplace.

For comparison, you might allow cookies from a website you visit regularly, even though they’ve notified you do you really know the extent to which you’re being tracked by a cookie like GA? A large part of the online community assume at least some part of their activity is being stored somewhere, Sizle doesn’t even come close to the tracking that’s being applied to almost everyone that visits any news media site for example.

We made our own analytics tool from scratch that only gathers a few metrics to support sales teams. If that’s creepy to you I would recommend looking into some of the bigger data giants.

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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Instead of whatabouting it, maybe you can answer sadfklsjlkjwt’s question: do they know this is happening?

Recipients of Mailchimp campaigns have the same experience as recipients of Sizle presentations. They’re not told the sender will be notified when the document is opened however this type of tracking is fairly commonplace. For comparison, you might allow cookies from a website you visit regularly, even though they’ve notified you do you really know the extent to which you’re being tracked by a cookie like GA? A large…

So, no.

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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Instead of whatabouting it, maybe you can answer sadfklsjlkjwt’s question: do they know this is happening?

Recipients of Mailchimp campaigns have the same experience as recipients of Sizle presentations. They’re not told the sender will be notified when the document is opened however this type of tracking is fairly commonplace. For comparison, you might allow cookies from a website you visit regularly, even though they’ve notified you do you really know the extent to which you’re being tracked by a cookie like GA? A large…

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Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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Nice, this is an ambitious project and your fresh execution does a good job of cutting through the staleness of typical PowerPoints. I played around, here's some feedback:

- Really like the templates. Lots more would be very helpful so that I can build out a presentation quickly without having to fiddle with detail.

- Top toolbar appears crammed when editing text on a laptop. Tried in both Firefox and Chrome. https://imgur.com/a/fZW7oUI

- You could probably cap the number of presentations in the free tier at about 5 before charging (perhaps a cheaper tier without analytics). Presume you're just trying to get the word out for now.

- Once you've got a good foundation it would be nice to start differentiating with more interactive elements.

Great job, though. All the best!

Re: Show HN: Browser-based PowerPoint alternative

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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?

I think these guys are being a bit precious and don't realise how much is tracked these days. All the email marketing campaign platforms do it, all the specialist quoting tools and line stores do it.

Good work mate, keep going.

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