4 ms·

Co-founder of Prettify here. Thanks for the feedback. We started working on this last thursday and this is our low fidelity MVP. We are totally embarrassed by t

by ricksta 14y ago

Co-founder of Prettify here. Thanks for the feedback. We started working on this last thursday and this is our low fidelity MVP. We are totally embarrassed by the quality of our website right now, but they say if the MVP is not embarrassing, then it's launched too late so we forced ourself to "launch" early to get feedbacks. Sorry about the grammar mistakes, we drafted the copy in like 10 minutes and we were suppose to proof read it before we "launch", but it was forgotten. Two things we will definitely work on from looking at all the feedbacks. 1. Add some sample work 2. Change the pricing model We are thinking of add a pricing model of flat setup fee + lower per slide fee for those customer with bigger pitch deck. Another idea is "name your own price" model. What do you guys think?

lifeisstillgood 14y ago
+1 for launching an MVP I have a little experience of the "polishing of presentations" industry (if someone is in a bank in London at 2am, odds are its one of the army of powerpoint polishers working for the sales teams 9am meeting) The presentation here: http://kpcb.com/insights/2012-internet-trends covers most of the major "modes" for a PPT. I would suggest each of these is a "feature" that you could sell. I would guess your ideal brief would be "I want to review 2012, talk about the foobar project and predictions for 2013. Alice, Bob and charlie did one each. Please put a bookend in between all three, take the data in the enbedded excel and make it animated, and find me a picture of a foobar that succeeded and one that is dead and covered in an oil slick" * bookends (plain slide, concept in words, introduces next few slides conceptually) * Graphs - this was the main cause of problems - twenty excel sheets and the instructions to pull out "sales". I would make this time and materials, but it will be a really powerful area - the above example from one of SVs biggest investors has boring Excel produced slides. Animate them, hgihlight the graphs with zooms, make them OSX not win98 and people will really pay. Trust me. * expositiory images - pictures tell a story - the before and after images here are a good example, but they take time and effort to find. And thats before we get onto the idea that really most PPTs need an editor to tease out the story (dont let your 1:1 people get dragged into understanding the whole presentation unless they are on Time and Materials), and interactivity (pygame is a good one here) really can work well. Sorry for the rambling - its late. Good luck
seanmcdirmid 14y ago
You really have to define your customers! I'm going to assume that a designer wouldn't use your service, nor probably higher-end presenters; too much is riding on their presentations to leave them to an outside service. Your target is more likely business folks who give presentations sometimes, its not a primary aspect of their job, and sometimes these presentations mean a lot and they want design help. But what does design help mean? Layouts, fonts, and colors? Assets, structure, and story telling? If the former, the client could easily game you by having a few slides done and repeating the style; these aren't posters after all! The latter is much less gameable, but also much more involved, I don't see how that could work at all without a tight feedback loop between the designer and client. I dislike "name your own price" models personally. You might get the occasional sociopath who pays little, and everyone else will agonize over coming up with the right price to pay. Sometimes its easier to just set some kind of price, you might put slides into different buckets based on their complexity/work needed and compute a price dynamically (use per-word, per-graphic, speaking time specified by the user, etc...). But good design changes might cause reorganizations in the entire deck. In that case, I would go with something like "intended length of presentation."

by ricksta 14y ago

lifeisstillgood 14y ago

+1 for launching an MVP I have a little experience of the "polishing of presentations" industry (if someone is in a bank in London at 2am, odds are its one of the army of powerpoint polishers working for the sales teams 9am meeting) The presentation here: http://kpcb.com/insights/2012-internet-trends covers most of the major "modes" for a PPT. I would suggest each of these is a "feature" that you could sell. I would guess your ideal brief would be "I want to review 2012, talk about the foobar project and predictions for 2013. Alice, Bob and charlie did one each. Please put a bookend in between all three, take the data in the enbedded excel and make it animated, and find me a picture of a foobar that succeeded and one that is dead and covered in an oil slick" * bookends (plain slide, concept in words, introduces next few slides conceptually) * Graphs - this was the main cause of problems - twenty excel sheets and the instructions to pull out "sales". I would make this time and materials, but it will be a really powerful area - the above example from one of SVs biggest investors has boring Excel produced slides. Animate them, hgihlight the graphs with zooms, make them OSX not win98 and people will really pay. Trust me. * expositiory images - pictures tell a story - the before and after images here are a good example, but they take time and effort to find. And thats before we get onto the idea that really most PPTs need an editor to tease out the story (dont let your 1:1 people get dragged into understanding the whole presentation unless they are on Time and Materials), and interactivity (pygame is a good one here) really can work well. Sorry for the rambling - its late. Good luck

seanmcdirmid 14y ago

You really have to define your customers! I'm going to assume that a designer wouldn't use your service, nor probably higher-end presenters; too much is riding on their presentations to leave them to an outside service. Your target is more likely business folks who give presentations sometimes, its not a primary aspect of their job, and sometimes these presentations mean a lot and they want design help. But what does design help mean? Layouts, fonts, and colors? Assets, structure, and story telling? If the former, the client could easily game you by having a few slides done and repeating the style; these aren't posters after all! The latter is much less gameable, but also much more involved, I don't see how that could work at all without a tight feedback loop between the designer and client. I dislike "name your own price" models personally. You might get the occasional sociopath who pays little, and everyone else will agonize over coming up with the right price to pay. Sometimes its easier to just set some kind of price, you might put slides into different buckets based on their complexity/work needed and compute a price dynamically (use per-word, per-graphic, speaking time specified by the user, etc...). But good design changes might cause reorganizations in the entire deck. In that case, I would go with something like "intended length of presentation."