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Show HN: I made fast and beautiful text slides software

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5 pointsdkaigorodov5 comments

I used Google Slides to create presentations for when training less experienced colleagues. Presentation preparation was taking too much time. Slide layout/resizing/editing issues was distracting me from the message I was trying to communicate.

So I decided to build tool which: - allows to quickly type content as a note-list for presentation - creates nice looking slides out of the box - immediately show how the result would look like.

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I tested it out, and it's pretty slick.

I noticed two issues:

1. The background image on the landing page doesn't load at all for me. I'm using Brave, with script-blocking disabled. If I manually inspect the page, and open one of the links behind the light/dark theme code, they load, but they don't seem to load on the page.

2. When I uploaded an image in a slide and went to full-screen mode, the image's borders are cut off (it's as if the image is zoomed in and the edges of the image are cropped). I believe it's the background-size: cover, and the aspect ratio of the image. Perhaps using background-size: contain would work?

can I use the video as the content in the presentation in your web-tool? I mean I didn't catch the point what is difference from other such applications for presentations

> I mean I didn't catch the point what is difference from other such applications for presentations

The main difference is that you can type the whole presentation without using a mouse/touchpad. The presentation looks nice out of the box.

Also, while typing you will think about your message and content. Not about how to adjust layout.

Yes, you can add YouTube video as a slide background. Just paste the video link to the text of the slide.

Loving the simplicity of the app, so easy to create presentations-on-the-go.

Have you thought about monetization?

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