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Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by jstummbillig »

dchuk wrote: post #11

So 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…

Why would you miss anything? I think you are merely skipping over the part you have not missed: It's well designed and not a Google product. In a world with space for a thousand todo and project management apps, I am sure there is space for a slides competitor, even if that was all it has going for it (although I am assuming there is more).

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by jim90 »

mgraupner wrote: post #18
jim90 wrote: post #16

Disclaimer, I work at Pitch! Thought I'd mention we are hiring :) https://pitch.com/about#hiring

Landing page is not loading (CSS missing) on iOS with AdBlocker (Firefox Focus) enabled, perhaps something you could look into.

Thanks for letting me know. I've passed that on.

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by li4ick »

It'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.

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by robertlagrant »

beavis-sinatra wrote: post #20
jim90 wrote: post #16

Disclaimer, I work at Pitch! Thought I'd mention we are hiring :) https://pitch.com/about#hiring

Ditto on the disclaimer but wanted to emphasize that all jobs are remote-friendly!

How're you finding React Native?

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by AnonC »

mgraupner wrote: post #18
jim90 wrote: post #16

Disclaimer, I work at Pitch! Thought I'd mention we are hiring :) https://pitch.com/about#hiring

Landing page is not loading (CSS missing) on iOS with AdBlocker (Firefox Focus) enabled, perhaps something you could look into.

I have a crude and jumbled layout on the homepage of Pitch, with many styles missing, using Firefox Focus on iOS with content blocker enabled.

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by tinyT »

dchuk wrote: post #11

So 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…

Usually with these new software products I'm more excited about what the future will bring than what the product looks like at launch. When is the last time Google Slides has made a significant update? Now compare that to the speed of Pitch has built their product - pretty impressive what they have built in a relatively short time - let's see what the future holds! Also still skeptical but so far I am enjoying using their product

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by li4ick »

tinyT wrote: post #27
dchuk wrote: post #11

So 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…

Usually with these new software products I'm more excited about what the future will bring than what the product looks like at launch. When is the last time Google Slides has made a significant update? Now compare that to the speed of Pitch has built their product - pretty impressive what they have built in a relatively short time - let's see what the future holds! Also still skeptical but so far I am enjoying using…

Yeah, I guess you're right. You can sense much faster progress when the product is made by a single company, rather than by a team within a major company.

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by artembugara »

Many 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 in your life.

I had to do a pitch deck and I saw Pitch app. I applied for a beta access and got it about 4 months ago.

Pitch was exactly what I needed: a set of pre-defined slides, graphs, tables which don't allow someone like me to make bad decisions doing presentation.

I am more than happy with my presentation. It looks OK without me doing any extra work.

If you're 0 at making presentations then Pitch is for you. For other, can't really say.

Pitch team, good job, thx. I'm not paying you so hope that at least this comment will do some good for you.

P.S. I've read that Pitch raised $50M pre-launch. Did they pivot or what?

[1] https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/61deced0-886c-4c28-a6...

Re: Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

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Post by Cenk »

I’ve been on the Pitch beta for the last couple weeks. Previously I spent a couple years making presentations using Keynote, and then recently dabbled in Google Slides. In my experience the #1 advantage Pitch has over Slides is that it is easy to make beautiful decks, and easy to work with non-designers collaboratively because I can pre-define all the document styles and just tell them not to customise any font or colour settings. The ability to upload custom fonts is also super useful.

There are a couple of things I wish Pitch supported, like vector image uploads and better looking diagrams and charts.

Overall I’m a big fan, and can’t see myself ever opening Google Slides again.

If you’d like to see an example of a presentation created in Pitch, check out these two. The first is the Supercast deck, and the second one of many delightful “What’s new“ presentations from Pitch themselves:

https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/e6b7e457-430f-...

https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/9787c433-3dc0-...

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