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Hey! I’m the creator of reveal.js. Thanks for sharing. Happy to answer questions if you have any.

reveal.js was first released in 2011. A few years later I also launched a visual editing environment for reveal.js called Slides (slides.com). It has some pretty unique features targeted at developers, like a built-in CSS editor, access to the HTML source, and stepped line-by-line code highlighting. http://slides.com/news/developers

It’s been really great finding a sustainable way to continue working on open source (reveal.js) thanks to the revenue from the proprietary editor (Slides).

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Thank you so much for your work! I work at microsoft, so everyone around me uses PowerPoint. I give all my presentations with revealjs, which I take directly from my Zettlr notes with minimal conversion. My colleagues were impressed this week that I could throw together a presentation with nice slides in less than an hour of work, with such a readable markdown "version" of the contents.

Thank you for the gift of productivity!

I use this for all my lectures. Thanks for all the great work makes my life so much easier. Click on the links to see the slides!

https://nccastaff.bournemouth.ac.uk/jmacey/Lectures/

That's really nice. How did you do that

The table of contents is written in D3.

Link is down

I use it for my personal website, and I use it as the front-end for a comic book viewer that I’m tinkering with. And naturally, I use Slides.com for my teaching slides and for my tech presentations. ;-)

Truly a versatile, well-made script.

Thanks for making it!

Hi Hakim, this looks really great. Thanks for creating it :)

A minor bit of feedback on the webpage: I spent a while looking for a link to an example presentation, but couldn't find one. I eventually realised that the entire top section is an example presentation. This is so cool!! I wonder if adding some text next to the arrow ("Try the demo", or similar?) might help people find it? The demo is so nice, it would be a shame if some users don't spot it.

That’s a great point. I’ll add a demo link to the sidebar and make it scroll up and highlight the header. Thanks!

There's a new Demo link in the sidebar now :)

Thanks for making this!

IMHO this is the best tool to present scientific content, because it really allows "multi media" in the original sense: formulas, different kinds of images, and videos.

Although I'm struggling right now with the formula part (going off the example in readme which is also not working) but I'm sure I'll figure that one out after some shut-eye. :P

Big fan of reveal, thanks so much for your work. Useful for so many more things than just presentations. I normally use it for static marketing-ish sites, but been thinking recently about how to use it for more interactive applications...

I'd just like to thank you for your work! I've used reveal.js on numerous school presentations and it continues to impress the audience every time.

It is very versatile and I've also modded it to be used to create live effects during concerts.

Thanks! I'm using RISE, a reveal.js implementation within Jupyter notebooks and it's so cool. Wish there was more support for the jupyter lab extension, making work presentation in this way is easy and very effective :)

Been using it since around 2013 for all sorts of presentations, from college to work to conference talks. Thanks for the great work!

Glad to hear its continued to be useful for so long!

slides.com is an amazing domain name. How did you land upon it?

(iirc) It was originally slid.es and the slides.com domain was added later, I know it's not an answer to your exact question, but slid.es was a pretty good start point too :-)

(It became a defacto go-to tool for slide decks for me because it was so memorable)

You’re absolutely right. We started as slid.es which is still my personal favorite domain :)

We started out as slid.es and then bought slides.com. I won’t share the exact amount, but I believe it was 5x our yearly revenue at the time so safe to say it was a big investment. We haven’t raised any money so my co-founder and I had to pay out of pocket.

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