5 comments

  • conqrr 5 minutes ago
    Interesting Idea for engagement. Although I think slides suck in general and often used for one way communication, especially suck for Software Development. A doc is much more preferable and a lot of collaborative docs like Google Doc exist.
  • 8organicbits 30 minutes ago
    This looks clever. I've seen PPT to web tools before (https://sparkslides.com/publish/, https://slidehtml5.com/), but I think the slide synchronization idea is new. I can't evaluate more than that as I don't use these.

    In the past I have liked marp (https://marp.app/) for technical slides as you write in markdown, can use version control, etc. Powerpoint always felt odd as a developer.

    To share public slides I've published to GitHub pages (https://github.com/robalexdev/marp-to-pages). I've seen professors use it for all their slides. But that doesn't synchronize slides, last I checked.

  • antonly 1 hour ago
    I am not sure there are many instances where I would be comfortable uploading my slides to a random website?
    • denismenace 1 hour ago
      I know. Kinda hard to develop trust, but I am considering making all slides E2E encrypted or at least have the option for it.

      I wanted to first know if people would like something like this.

      • kinduff 12 minutes ago
        Did you explore client-side for the presentation, and just do the collaborative part use a backend? Your backend doesn't really need to know whats on the screen to draw, nor to sync the slides, in my unverified opinion.
  • jayknight 1 hour ago
    In a previous position, we used Adobe Connect a lot for online meetings, and the normal way of sharing presentations was to upload them to the room and control the presentation from there.

    Webex has this as well, but I find that most people don't bother and just share their screen.

  • sublinear 1 hour ago
    What's the use case? Lots of people use powerpoint and can't escape the microsoft ecosystem anyway.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/present-from-...