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5 points by dkaigorodov ↗ HN
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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a_lesanka
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
dkaigorodov
Yes, you can add YouTube video as a slide background. Just paste the video link to the text of the slide.
dkaigorodov
> 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.

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

Have you thought about monetization?

Pr0ject217
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?