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Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
- nikivi 6y agoIs there an example of a nice Pitch presentation for a technical topic?
- socksy 6y agohmm maybe this https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/9ed4cfb1-f080-44b9-9800-a2e9d902cfed/7c3e099a-139e-4582-943b-4e2b6e5ece0f https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/9ed4cfb1-f080-... from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it_wBCYBf8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it_wBCYBf8?
- loevborg 6y agoAngels Singing - Writing for Programmers https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/1407d073-f457-4867-a095-35974c1fe3d3/ac050780-ea9d-4a74-8b35-99366031b1fa https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/1407d073-f457-4867-a0... from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7-2DW-KDV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7-2DW-KDV4
- pistoriusp 6y agoThis landing page is something else. Wow!
- pal_9000 6y agoGenuinely curious. What did you find most appealing? For me, the landing page looks.. average.
- danpeddle 6y agoMust be amongst the largest public facing products that's all clojure/script..?
- zcam 6y agoNubank is also pretty big (clj/cljs/datomic). There's also Exoscale using clojure(script) extensively. Funding Circle and CircleCI also use it but I think "only" on the backend.
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- robenkleene 6y agoRoam Research is also written in Clojure/Script.
- packetlost 6y agoRoam is rather niche though, and insanely overpriced.
- dmvinson 6y agoHow did you know it was Clojurescript? Pretty awesome to see Clojure getting more use. It feels like a leap forward every time I even play with it.
- loevborg 6y agoNot too hard to guess from the jobs page https://pitch.com/about#hiring https://pitch.com/about#hiring
- hobofan 6y agoFor anyone that's expecting all those fancy animations that you see in this post and on the landing pages: They are not really in the product.
- robenkleene 6y agoI think this is a deeper point than it appears at first, there’s been a trend towards the democratization of software, e.g., Figma is easier to use than Photoshop, mobile software is simpler than desktop, Google Docs is simpler than Excel. But the high-end just continues to be moving in the other direction, in the case of the example here, bleeding-edge design is moving into the 3D space (my guess is Cinema 4D for the 3D elements on Pitch's homepage), and 3D packages are an order of magnitude more complex than either Photoshop or Excel. I.e., instead of taking successful simpler software's lead, the high-end is actually getting more complicated. For awhile now I’ve been predicting a moat forming in creative professions between people using high-end (usually desktop) software, and the low-end (either mobile or mobile compatible). Historically, this was never the case, e.g., all designers used Photoshop, all music producers used Logic or similar. Now with truly viable low-end alternatives like the Affinity Suite, and Final Cut deliberately moving down market, or the absolutely rich audio ecosystem on iOS, it’s almost like two “classes” of creator are being formed. Presumably choice is a good thing, but I think more and more the work of people focusing on the high-end is going to stand out from the rest, and career-wise be more in demand.
- iamwil 6y agoAnyone know how they're implementing the multiplayer video/voice chat? Is it over WebRTC or something else?
- knes 6y agoOpening up the console, it looks like they are using pusher.com
- fancy_pantser 6y agoFor the video+voice, it's WebRTC using Daily (YC W16) https://www.daily.co/ https://www.daily.co/
- iamwil 6y agoAh, this was what I was looking for. How did you find out?
- dchuk 6y agoSo I REALLY don’t mean this to be cynical, but: other than this clearly being a beautiful product, and I guess the simple fact that it’s just not a Google product, what exactly does this bring to the table that Google slides doesn’t already do? I say this as a guy who spends a lot of time in Google slides, both on my own presentations as well as collaborating on group ones, and it works pretty much perfectly. If I were to switch from it, I need something that absolutely crushes it in some way, but looking at the landing page for this product, nothing is particularly popping out to show it being all that different than what I already use in Slides, which is also included in my company email along with sheets and docs. What am I missing?
- jstummbillig 6y agoWhy would you miss anything? I think you are merely skipping over the part you have not missed: It's well designed and not a Google product. In a world with space for a thousand todo and project management apps, I am sure there is space for a slides competitor, even if that was all it has going for it (although I am assuming there is more).
- gcatalfamo 6y agoSo, the differentiating value consists in simply not being made by Google?
- joering2 6y agoKnowing Google history in shutting down anything other than search, mail and maps, yes its a huge advantage. I was approach to use “Authenticator” app in new project and upon finding out its Google, I declined
- Karunamon 6y agoGoogle authenticator is just TOTP. The whole "scan a QR code, type the number" thing will work with any client, not just Google's app.
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- atfzl 6y agoSo, it's like https://slides.com https://slides.com but collaborative.
- elcomet 6y agoslides.com is a products that targets developers. This targets everyone. So it's more like Google slides.
- elcomet 6y agoSo is anyone using this ? How is this better than google slides apart from the video collaboration ?
- artembugara 6y agoI'm using it. Enjoy it so far. Unfortunately, that's my first tool for building the pitch deck. Not sure how it's better than Google's
- jim90 6y agoDisclaimer, I work at Pitch! Thought I'd mention we are hiring :) https://pitch.com/about#hiring https://pitch.com/about#hiring
- mgraupner 6y agoLanding page is not loading (CSS missing) on iOS with AdBlocker (Firefox Focus) enabled, perhaps something you could look into.
- beavis-sinatra 6y agoDitto on the disclaimer but wanted to emphasize that all jobs are remote-friendly!
- robertlagrant 6y agoHow're you finding React Native?
- andrewingram 6y agoSince you're Berlin-based, is internal communication done in German? Asking because I don't speak it, so that might be a factor for me!
- beshrkayali 6y agoI don't mean to be too negative, and yes these comments are not about the product itself, but I really dislike the excessive animation, scroll feeling heavy, and the fact that the video is playing and not playing at the same time really annoys me.
- DLarsen 6y agoThe footer has more links for "Legal" than for "Product"... a sign of the times.
- necedemalis37 6y agoHaaaaaaaave you been to Germany?
- li4ick 6y agoIt's funny how Microsoft has an absolute beast on their hand with Powerpoint, which has so many obscure and powerful features that their employees must be fuming at how it's all just there, and nobody uses them. Fractals, high-res fish models, it's Turing complete for Pete's sake. They could easily destroy their competition if only they got somebody in charge to do it.
- Terretta 6y agoFor instance, the PowerPoint integration with Teams is slick, where you can independently navigate and then join the presenter again (at presenter's option). Or teams actually co-edit remotely while lead is presenting, team members are editing on the fly, and others/guests are viewing the presenter's choice of a native presentation or a window or a screen... not to mention any/all of this working on Surface Hub conference room touch screens. I used to be a Keynote person, then Deckset, then a couple different markdown slide tools ... but for team based work these integrations have pulled me back into PowerPoint "at the office". I still hate most of these tools though, slide-ware is where knowledge goes to die.
- artembugara 6y agoMany people here asking for an example. Here's a real example of a pre-seed pitch deck that I'm using for my meetings with investors [1]. I'll explain why I like Pitch. I am a first time founder. I am a technical guy who have to be a jack-of-all-trades for the past 6 months. I am a type of guy who's really bad at designing slides. Leave me with PowerPoint or Google Presentation and you'll see the ugliest presentation in your life. I had to do a pitch deck and I saw Pitch app. I applied for a beta access and got it about 4 months ago. Pitch was exactly what I needed: a set of pre-defined slides, graphs, tables which don't allow someone like me to make bad decisions doing presentation. I am more than happy with my presentation. It looks OK without me doing any extra work. If you're 0 at making presentations then Pitch is for you. For other, can't really say. Pitch team, good job, thx. I'm not paying you so hope that at least this comment will do some good for you. P.S. I've read that Pitch raised $50M pre-launch. Did they pivot or what? [1] https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/61deced0-886c-4c28-a657-72013d35c04e/e7846aa5-5432-4273-9e9b-1d1fabd81cb4 https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/61deced0-886c-4c28-a6...
- evancharles 6y agothx so much for showing an example, very helpful. btw, if I may, it might be nicer to stick to just serif or sans-serif fonts in your deck, the mix is making my eyes a little sad.
- artembugara 6y agoOh wow. Didn't see that. I told you I'm bad at it lol. But thx a lot! Will do that.
- mrhat 6y agoFyi on slide 6 you've a typo "Opportunity". Congrats on the product btw!
- artembugara 6y agoThx! Just fixed. Gosh, I knew posting it here will have some benefits.
- Cenk 6y agoI’ve been on the Pitch beta for the last couple weeks. Previously I spent a couple years making presentations using Keynote, and then recently dabbled in Google Slides. In my experience the #1 advantage Pitch has over Slides is that it is easy to make beautiful decks, and easy to work with non-designers collaboratively because I can pre-define all the document styles and just tell them not to customise any font or colour settings. The ability to upload custom fonts is also super useful. There are a couple of things I wish Pitch supported, like vector image uploads and better looking diagrams and charts. Overall I’m a big fan, and can’t see myself ever opening Google Slides again. If you’d like to see an example of a presentation created in Pitch, check out these two. The first is the Supercast deck, and the second one of many delightful “What’s new“ presentations from Pitch themselves: https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/e6b7e457-430f-4975-b589-9463f4729d9e/5e8556ae-6604-48ca-a2ae-08df8a916697 https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/e6b7e457-430f-... https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/9787c433-3dc0-465b-acf0-8b52359a6590 https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/9787c433-3dc0-...
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- tweetle_beetle 6y agoI find it interesting that real time collaboration is now a headline feature appearing in all sorts of products. I feel like everyone likes to think that their job is more creative than it really is - little work really happens in "the kind of spontaneous collaboration and free flow of ideas that many of us took advantage of when working in a shared space with our team.". I've been involved in many presentations remotely with multiple people on Google Slides and it always ends up a bit of a mess. There's alway someone ignoring the style guide, no one is really sure when a slide is finished, orphaned comments left ignored, etc. I know this is blaming the tool for the way it is used, but I can't help but feel that the tool is contributing to the problem. In my experience, 9 times out of 10 delegating sections of content with a final edit and sign off by a designated individual would work very well - no real time collaboration needed.
- jim90 6y ago> In my experience, 9 times out of 10 delegating sections of content with a final edit and sign off by a designated individual would work very well - no real time collaboration needed. So that's actually how we do our internal weekly presentation. Each team has a section, and we all work on it. (Albeit in realtime) > no one is really sure when a slide is finished You can assign slides in pitch and update their status. So everyone knows who is responsible for something and what state it is in. https://help.pitch.com/en/articles/4318642-set-a-status-and-assignees-for-a-slide https://help.pitch.com/en/articles/4318642-set-a-status-and-...
- rnernento 6y agoAs someone who regularly uses Powerpoint but isn't completely in love with it I don't see anything compelling on your home screen that makes me care about Pitch. If there is some killer feature I don't know about it should be made more prominent. What I'm seeing is real time collaboration - which is already possible with Office 365 and some supposedly great templates. Switching software is a pain, so you better give me a good reason to. It seems like you're squandering an opportunity to use Pitch to pitch me Pitch.
- mritchie712 6y agoMany of these products use https://webrtc.org/ https://webrtc.org/
- rabidonrails 6y agoI use Google Slides _a ton_ and having a web based alternative is definitely interesting. Since I'm not a Mac user I've definitely yearned for Keynote-like animations etc. so this could be really useful. That said, something here doesn't seem to add up to me. Pitch is launching now, two years after being founded by seven founders, raised 50M(!) in funding and has 89 employees? I can't figure out why 1. they didn't launch sooner 2. why they need so many people 3. why it's a freemium model 4. How they _already_ raised $50M. It looks like a cool product and I might sign up to play around but something doesn't add up.
- cecja 6y agoThis is their public launch they are well underway for over a year. They are also the core creators of wunderlist.
- xenospn 6y agoI remember their raise announcement - I also remember not exactly understanding why you'd need $50M to build a web-based presentation software (plenty of those exist and I'm almost certain none of them raised anything even close). And now that I read they have close to 100 employees before launching I'm even more confused.
- fasteo 6y agoThis. I have always thought that investors have a half-baked exit deal before putting their money into these start-ups.
- caspii 6y agoCongrats to the Pitch Team. Looks like a beautiful product. I wonder if it’s really 10 times better than Google Slides, because that’s what it’s competing against. 2x or 3x better is not enough.
- li4ick 6y agoI don't like how every slide bloats the browser history. Google Slides doesn't do that.
- radihuq 6y agoI'm super excited for Pitch. Since it's a web application I assume there will eventually be a public API, and ways to embed interactive media. I think this will be really powerful for events. Imagine if you had ONE master slide deck that had: - A slide for audience polling - A slide for a zoom call with one of your speakers - A slide that managed an icebreaker activity (like Kahoot) - A slide that tracked merch sales in real time - A slide with general analytics about your event (ie. how many registered attendees are actually in the room) All you have to do is hit NEXT SLIDE
- socksy 6y agoCurious, what exactly would you be expecting from a presentation software API? Like a webplayer style player.next() and player.back(), or a way to make embedded media inside?
- radihuq 6y agoTwo functions come to mind: - Being able to programmatically control the contents of an INDIVIDUAL slide - Being able to programmatically control the order of slides With a robust API there are two uses cases I can think of off the top of my head: - You're leading an all-hands meeting and talking about revenue. The slide is connected to your Stripe account via a webhook, so the revenue figure on screen is dynamic and updates in real time - You're pitching an investor with the goal of convincing the investor to give you money, and you're recording the conversation in real time. The recording gets processed through some language processing system, and the system recognizes the context of the conversation. You're about to talk about your team, but the system thinks that perhaps a better strategy would be to talk about the market size. So, it automatically reorders to slides and makes the NEXT slide about the market size. You hit next, see the market size slide and then talk about it I'm sure there's a million different creative use cases that we'll see in the future. I'm fairly optimistic that Pitch has a ton of potential to change the general presentation status quo from static presentations, to dynamic presentations
- throwaway99997 6y agohttps://salesforce.quip.com/about/slides https://salesforce.quip.com/about/slides https://salesforce.quip.com/about/live-apps https://salesforce.quip.com/about/live-apps
- blntechie 6y agoThis looks great to be honest to build collaborative slide decks. But the one thing I’m seeing in recent times is that every product is building their own communication layer especially for video/audio instead of letting users default to a catch-all solutions like Slack or Teams or any other similar software. Saw a similar app for collaborative coding with their own audio/video recently. Interesting development. Not sure if everyone is building this from ground up or there is a communication as a service product/api which they leverage on. (Chime? Twilio?)
- petetnt 6y agoAs someone who does a lot of slides, mainly on Keynote and sometimes on PowerPoint, Pitch seems to be a similar kind of large, incremental upgrade when we moved from Sketch to Figma. For example something as rudimentary as collaboration just barely works on Keynote (and requires files to be saved to iCloud to boot, which doesn't work for us at all). With Pitch you can just share a link and off you go. IIRC this also applies to Powerpoint: to collaborate you need to upload the documents to SharePoint/OneDrive. Google Slides can do this, but for weird some reason (like many of Google's online products) it just doesn't feel good to use. That said, I have only worked on Pitch for hours so YMMV. Congrats on the launch!
- 4b11b4 6y agoSeems like screen.so is a layer of abstraction above this? That is, screen.so has all of these features, for any app you want, not just creating slides.
- kchhina 6y agoThere are many usability improvements that can be made to this for speed of slide creation. Feedback 1. For me, it's not a good user experience if I have to click a button on toolbar, that opens a popup, to click through categories, and select a shape. That is too many clicks. Why aren't they just open on the left side or somewhere, especially making it easier to select in widescreens. Keyboard shortcuts fix this, but there's a learning curve. 2. If I have to create 5 different box shapes with different colors, I have to go through that process 5 times. Yes, I can create it once and duplicate it multiple times, but there should be a recently used shapes or something that makes it easier to pick. Google slides has the same issue. Keyboard shortcuts fix this, but there's a learning curve. 3. When creating a shape, I like to drag it vs. click it and have it show up on the canvas. There is no drag option in Pitch. 4. Connecting two shapes using an arrow/line should be possible from the shape on the canvas, and not by creating a new line/arrow and dragging their endpoints to connect the shapes. Edit: fixed typo
- rayshan 6y agoHow does this compare to Paste by FiftyThree, the team that made Paper? Pricing is the same. https://paste.bywetransfer.com/ https://paste.bywetransfer.com/
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- agustif 6y agoFigma is better for pure design and has great built in collaboration too. But I can see how Pitch can provide value to a whole lot of founders who might prefer not to reach for their design tools..
- geniium 6y agoNice work pitch! The product is pretty awesome. You need balls to get in a crowded area with players like Google and Microsoft. But what I see is really some neat features like real time video while editing, following the cursor. Seems like a really well made collaborative software. Good luck with the next steps! I'll give it a try for my next pitch :finger-crossed:
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- atoav 6y ago"Accept All" is the only option on your cookies? Not only is this a potential GDPR violation — additionally it told me enough about the way this project feels on my privacy to just close the page and move on without even checking what it is.
- endergen 6y agoWe all just use Google Slides or PowerPoint (with files shared on OneDrive), rough market to get in to.
- pchal 6y agoI really like Pitch’s emphasis on Keyboard shortcuts. IMO all UIs should have a keyboard-centric mode. See Kitemaker and Superhuman. It doesn’t yet have basics like dotted lines and curves lines etc but I assume those and more will come soon. What is the differentiation compared to SlideBean? And Canva ?
- polyterative 6y agolooks goooood
- hackerbeat 6y agoI'm not convinced, but wish you good luck nonetheless.