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As someone who regularly uses Powerpoint but isn't completely in love with it I don't see anything compelling on your home screen that makes me care about Pitch. If there is some killer feature I don't know about it should be made more prominent. What I'm seeing is real time collaboration - which is already possible with Office 365 and some supposedly great templates. Switching software is a pain, so you better give…
Must be amongst the largest public facing products that's all clojure/script..?
How did you know it was Clojurescript? Pretty awesome to see Clojure getting more use. It feels like a leap forward every time I even play with it.
I'm super excited for Pitch. Since it's a web application I assume there will eventually be a public API, and ways to embed interactive media. I think this will be really powerful for events. Imagine if you had ONE master slide deck that had: - A slide for audience polling - A slide for a zoom call with one of your speakers - A slide that managed an icebreaker activity (like Kahoot) - A slide that tracked merch sales…
Curious, what exactly would you be expecting from a presentation software API? Like a webplayer style player.next() and player.back(), or a way to make embedded media inside?
- Being able to programmatically control the contents of an INDIVIDUAL slide
- Being able to programmatically control the order of slides
With a robust API there are two uses cases I can think of off the top of my head:
- You're leading an all-hands meeting and talking about revenue. The slide is connected to your Stripe account via a webhook, so the revenue figure on screen is dynamic and updates in real time
- You're pitching an investor with the goal of convincing the investor to give you money, and you're recording the conversation in real time. The recording gets processed through some language processing system, and the system recognizes the context of the conversation. You're about to talk about your team, but the system thinks that perhaps a better strategy would be to talk about the market size. So, it automatically reorders to slides and makes the NEXT slide about the market size. You hit next, see the market size slide and then talk about it
I'm sure there's a million different creative use cases that we'll see in the future. I'm fairly optimistic that Pitch has a ton of potential to change the general presentation status quo from static presentations, to dynamic presentations
Feedback
1. For me, it's not a good user experience if I have to click a button on toolbar, that opens a popup, to click through categories, and select a shape. That is too many clicks. Why aren't they just open on the left side or somewhere, especially making it easier to select in widescreens. Keyboard shortcuts fix this, but there's a learning curve.
2. If I have to create 5 different box shapes with different colors, I have to go through that process 5 times. Yes, I can create it once and duplicate it multiple times, but there should be a recently used shapes or something that makes it easier to pick. Google slides has the same issue. Keyboard shortcuts fix this, but there's a learning curve.
3. When creating a shape, I like to drag it vs. click it and have it show up on the canvas. There is no drag option in Pitch.
4. Connecting two shapes using an arrow/line should be possible from the shape on the canvas, and not by creating a new line/arrow and dragging their endpoints to connect the shapes.
Edit: fixed typo
I 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…
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What makes Pitch better than purchasing templates? For instance, you can find professionally designed templates here [1]. [1] https://graphicriver.net/popular_item/by_category?category=p...
For me it's simply the fact that I do not have to pay a dime.
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Could you explain why that would be a red flag?
No one wants to invest in part-time entrepreneurs. This is a pitch deck, it should only show reasons to invest.
So here you're showing that there's risk involved with your team. This risk would have to be balanced with an equally high or higher reward if you wanted to highlight it. Don't show an investor the door (in your deck) unless you want them to open it.
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…
Easy to use and collaborate on as well.
From the outside I tend to be almost as cynical: is it that much of a difference to become a killer enterprise tool taking marketshare from Google slides ? I never saw a big difference between Zoom and Google meet, even worse, for Zoom you had to download something, but as it happens, Zoom became a behemoth, so now my mind is open to even minuscule improvements over incumbents can sort lead to a run off growth and usage cycle.