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submeta12/09/20246 repliesview on HN

What I desperately need is a model that generates perfectly made PowerPoint slides. I have to create many presentations for management, and it’s a very time consuming task. It’s easy to outline my train of thoughts and let an LLM write the full text, but then to create a convincing presentation slide by slide takes days.

I know there is Beautiful.ai or Copilot for PowerPoint, but none of the existing tools really work for me because the results and the user flow aren’t convincing.


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buzzy_hacker12/09/2024

Have you checked out Marp? https://marp.app/

Basically it generates slides from markdown, which is great even without LLMs. But you can get LLMs to output in markdown/Marp format and then use Marp to generate the slides.

I haven't looked into complicated slides, but works well for text-based ones.

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jmugan12/09/2024

I want something that can take my ugly line drawing and make it a cool looking line drawing without distorting the main idea

agnishom12/10/2024

I don't really understand how this would work. Writing long paragraphs to prompt the AI is much more tedious than writing a few bullet points for the slides.

If you need the AI to help you brainstorm a good narrative, that is a different story

ShakataGaNai12/09/2024

Never used it but seen it mentioned in that space: https://gamma.app/

ghita_12/09/2024

there is a YC company that does that I think: https://www.rollstack.com/ i've never used them but I think they have many satisfied customers, maybe worth a shot!