Comment by artembugara | Hacker News Reader

Comment by artembugara | Hacker News Reader

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...

As someone who makes startups and invests sometimes, I recommend you remove "Wrote 90% of code being a part-time cofounder." That would be a red flag.

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.

I assume you put in the statement to show that he _thinks_ going full time would make him more productive. But the flipside of that argument is what we _know_ which is he currently has another job.

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.

All it does is make me think that they aren't full time, and may not be committed. I also have questions about IP concerns.

These may not be serious issues, and they can be easily answered, but this statement is a distraction. You want your pitch deck to answer questions, not raise new ones.

Thx a lot for this explanation.

We're full time. It just started as a side-project

not sure either, maybe a lack of balance in the delegation or organizational structure ?

Full-time today. But I get what you mean. I had a lot of doubt wether I should put it there or not.

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.

Which to me means that these templates/themes are at risk of starting to look stale sooner rather than later.

What makes Spotify better than early iTunes? Quite obvious, no?

No, I don't think it is. Early itunes was a media player and music store I could use to catalog my own music as well as license theirs. Spotify is a streaming music service with a free ads based model or paid monthly subscription to get access to most commercially released music. How is that anything like Pitch vs PowerPoint templates?

I was just referring to the 'Subscription service vs One-time purchase' model. If you want to make a single presentation in a year, perhaps, not considering any differences, you are better of buying templates on Themeforest. But the convenience, cost-effectiveness of such a service, i can certainly see value

Fyi on slide 6 you've a typo "Opportunity". Congrats on the product btw!

Thx! Just fixed. Gosh, I knew posting it here will have some benefits.

thx so much for showing an example, very helpful. btw, if I may, it might be nicer to stick to just serif or sans-serif fonts in your deck, the mix is making my eyes a little sad.

Oh wow. Didn't see that. I told you I'm bad at it lol.

But thx a lot! Will do that.

Thanks for sharing the business logic for Pitch.

For your own startup, are you targeting a specific niche? Do you have any advantages in distribution besides the excellent HN top comment hack :)

DaaS is a bit more horizontal. It has to be. We sell an ingredient for others' solution.

Excellent HN top comment hack lol.

Content marketing, open-sourcing (2 popular Python packages), and cold sales work so far.

Honestly for this kinda hype I expected something more beautiful. This is way behind beautiful.ai

Damn good idea btw. I can immediately grasp how you could make money.

Thx. Probably, you know some company that could benefit from our solution?

Probably because there are numerous incumbents and an aggregated news feed isn't nearly as unique as their grid chart makes it out to be.

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