Show HN: slidesdown - Zero Installation Slideshows in Markdown

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5 points·jceb81··4 comments

I created Slidesdown, a zero installation presentation tool, that just takes a link to a public Markdown file and creates a beautiful presentation out of it.

In version v0.2.0 hot-reloading and offline support were added as well as a small shell script for serving presentations from the local hard-drive.

The example presentation can be found here: https://slidesdown.e-jc.de/

One particular use case I have in mind is to allow software maintainers to pitch / show case their projects by creating a SLIDES.md file that lives right alongside README.md. A direct link can be generated via https://slidesdown.e-jc.de/loader.html and shared on GitHub and beyond.

I'd love to hear your feedback. Would you be interested in adding a SLIDES.md file?

I love the zero-install feature for sure! I noticed that SLIDES.md could also be read directly so I’m curious if we could just rename it to README.md and then, probably as an option, tell Slidesdown to load that file instead.

Thank you for your feedback Yes, you can easily pass the URL of the README.md to slidesdown via the ?slides=URL query parameter and it will load that file instead of SLIDES.md. Here's an example: https://slidesdown.e-jc.de/?slides=https://github.com/jceb/s...

Ah. Excellent, thanks!

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