OpenDeck: 1,200 startup slide decks by category – Team, Market, Funding Hi there, I have just released my first product: OpenDeck.app. It's 1,200+ startup slides searchable by category: Team, Market, Competition, Funding, etc. You can also download all 60+ decks at once. 100% free. Would love some honest feedback as it's my first product and looking at building more. Cheers! Steph |
Cheers!
I just realized I did make a mistake in the title of the HN post. It should read "startups slides" not "startup slide deck". My apologies.
==> There are only 67 decks = 1,200 individual slides. <==
I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/
The slides are from decks that are publicly available on Slideshare.
The data (company name, year, funding stage, slide category...) is manually added by me with a lot of Google search.
The download includes 67 decks which corresponds to 1,210 slides.
It is true that in the download email, I also announce my next product, which is also free and also for entrepreneurs. So this seems fair to me - but happy to reconsider my position on that.
I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/
Don't let anyone guilt you out of that.
Great job and keep at it!
- Why do you require an email if it's a free download?
- Link goes to your google drive where no more than 67 decks are listed. Why not just put a link to a single zip file on your landing page?
- I use the email to announce my upcoming product to potential users. It's also a free product and also a product for tech founders so it seems fair to me. If I cannot communicate with my users, then it's hard to build something.
- 67 decks = 1210 slides. You are the 3rd person to point this out so maybe my English is wrong. For me, 1 deck is a whole presentation that includes many slides. Please correct me if I am wrong.
- IMHO, a deck consists of slides(s) so a slide deck = set of slides. So using just 67 "slide decks" would have been a better title.
I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/
If there are only 67 decks, you would say "67 startup slide decks."
One point of user feedback though: the mobile view of the slides is a bit funnily cropped and difficult to distinguish the decks from each other. Would be nice with the primary slide highlighted, and then a view into the full deck if you click on it.
Glad you like it.
Unfortunately, I use a no-code tool (Table2Site) which allows me zero customization of the mobile design.
If OpenDeck is successful, I will rebuild it better and include your suggestion.
It's already included - although you cannot filter (yet) by funding stage, they are indicated on each slide next to the company name.
So far, I am using a no-code tool called Table2Sheet, which only allows 1 type of filter, so I picked Slide category.
If you want to browse full startup pitch decks, check out https://starthouse.xyz/, https://pitchdeckexamples.com/, https://www.pitchdeckhunt.com/
It's 67 decks i.e. 1210 slides. It's my understanding that a pitch deck or slide deck contains several slides.
Is the wording confusing or misleading? Please suggest a better one, I'll be happy to fix it (English not my native language).
I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/
Well, now promises are native and that Q library isn’t a big deal.
But meanwhile I had to constantly defend with logical arguments, until I gave up and had our team overhaul the entire codebase and marketing JUST so the very vocal squeaky wheel developers could get past the naming issue and focus on what the actual benefits of the platform are.
Found one of the threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7334367
At some point isn't it just easier to recognize that choosing a name requires some basic amount of due diligence? I've helped choose names for multiple products, in every case we had to put some thought and research into it.
> But meanwhile I had to constantly defend with logical arguments
There's no "logical argument" in this case. You're confusing rhetoric with logic.
But, at the same time, sometimes when dev-teams build a system/product named after a single short common word (Looking at you, go!), or a single letter, it gets to be hard to search for and find relevant results. (The "go-lang" convention didn't get widely adopted/used until go had been out there for a while).