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What I desperately need is a model that generates perfectly made PowerPoint slides. I have to create many presentations for management, and it’s a very time consuming task. It’s easy to outline my train of thoughts and let an LLM write the full text, but then to create a convincing presentation slide by slide takes days.

I know there is Beautiful.ai or Copilot for PowerPoint, but none of the existing tools really work for me because the results and the user flow aren’t convincing.

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Have you checked out Marp? https://marp.app/

Basically it generates slides from markdown, which is great even without LLMs. But you can get LLMs to output in markdown/Marp format and then use Marp to generate the slides.

I haven't looked into complicated slides, but works well for text-based ones.

Looks interesting. I am on the hunt for clean tools for producing presentations. I really like Powerpoint, mainly because of their animation and vector editing features. However, I don't want to keep using a proprietary tool.

You could also try Hyperdeck which uses Markdown for slides as well, but supports most of the animation features of Powerpoint as well as MathML and stuff like that (no vector editing though)

http://hyperdeck.io

If you're the coder/hacker type you might like Typst. It's a typesetting tool but it can create presentations too and I like it better than Powerpoint where I have to manually edit and align everything on every page to ensure a consistent style.

Fascinating. I did not know that you can create presentations with Typst

just use a canva template

Thanks, I did not know that you could use Canva for presentations. However, it is still proprietary software. (Worse, it lives on the web)

Work at a bank? That’s my reaction to 95% of the cool stuff I see every week.

No, I do not work at a bank. What do you mean?

Banks need to be secure and be able to uphold regulatory standards.

Same for Mermaid diagram.

I want something that can take my ugly line drawing and make it a cool looking line drawing without distorting the main idea

I don't really understand how this would work. Writing long paragraphs to prompt the AI is much more tedious than writing a few bullet points for the slides.

If you need the AI to help you brainstorm a good narrative, that is a different story

Never used it but seen it mentioned in that space: https://gamma.app/

there is a YC company that does that I think: https://www.rollstack.com/ i've never used them but I think they have many satisfied customers, maybe worth a shot!

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