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OpenDeck: 1,200 startup slide decks by category – Team, Market, Funding

203 points by stephnass 6y ago

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

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ystad 6y ago
Where’s the url.?
- bulka 6y ago
  https://opendeck.app/ https://opendeck.app/ I would guess
fraggle222 6y ago
I would want a way to view all the slides for a particular deck together, but here it seems I can only click a slide and see just that slide, no way to go back or forwards. I know in some cases the full deck may not be available but often there is more than one that we should be able to page through.
- stephnass 6y ago
  Thanks for the feedback, I am definitely building that for the next release. 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://starthouse.xyz/, https://pitchdeckexamples.com/ https://pitchdeckexamples.com/, https://www.pitchdeckhunt.com/ https://www.pitchdeckhunt.com/
grinchygrinch 6y ago
There's already MIDI platform called OpenDeck https://github.com/paradajz/OpenDeck https://github.com/paradajz/OpenDeck
- EGreg 6y ago
  You know, it bothers me so much when this shows up as a criticism. You didn’t say it as one, but when I released the Q platform, for social networking apps, which we worked for years on since 2010 and earlier, people told us “rename your library, there is already a famous library Q for promises”. 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7334367
  - ci5er 6y ago
    This is a fair beef. 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).
  - antonvs 6y ago
    I've never heard of your "platform." I've heard of the Q promises library. 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.
- stephnass 6y ago
  I had no idea oO
dstroot 6y ago
My first suggestion is include a link in your post: https://opendeck.app/ https://opendeck.app/ Cheers!
- stephnass 6y ago
  Thanks, I have yet to get better at that Hackernews thing...
Marciplan 6y ago
Awesome! Could be nice to also include what Series the deck is for (Seed rounds pitch decks are vastly different than Series A and onwards)
- stephnass 6y ago
  Hi Marciplan! It's already included - although you cannot filter (yet) by funding stage, they are indicated on each slide next to the company name.
  - johnwarila 6y ago
    Small feedback, on my end the contrast makes it very hard to read the names of the companies over the slides.
    - stephnass 6y ago
      Ok, I will increase contrat a bit. I cannot increase too much or the text will hide the slide...
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blululu 6y ago
Maybe not the intended purpose but this is a great resource for playing a round of slides roulette with friends over a video call. It’s an improv game where you go around and assign people with a random slide deck to present to the group. The more Corp speak and biz-talk the better. Fun way to hang out with friends remotely.
- antonvs 6y ago
  You have a different definition of fun than mine.
- nom 6y ago
  Slide roulette, improv, socializing, corp/biz speak. You just described my personal hell :D
- taxcoder 6y ago
  Neat idea. I would try adding the names of several managers and corp-speakers for the players to try to impersonate.
- giantg2 6y ago
  I was disappointed this wasn't going where I thought it was - a drinking game.
pk78 6y ago
2 things: - 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?
- stephnass 6y ago
  Hi pk78 - 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.
  - pk78 6y ago
    Fair enough. If it's for potential customers, then it's probably better to make the email part optional? - 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.
  - antonvs 6y ago
    "Slide deck" is an idiomatic phrase in English, which means a collection of slides. "1,200 startup slide decks" means 1200 collections of slides. If there are only 67 decks, you would say "67 startup slide decks."
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  - stephnass 6y ago
    I just realized I did make a mistake in the title of the HN post. My apologies. It should read "startups slides" not "slide deck". You are correct. I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/
saxelsen 6y ago
Great resource! I was looking for something like this for our seed round and really appreciate the objectiveness of just showing the slide decks, instead of it being the clickbaity "10 great pitch decks for yadayada". 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.
- stephnass 6y ago
  Hi Saxelsen 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.
tmpz22 6y ago
Where is the data coming from? Clicking download all returns only about 60 slide decks, and you're using the download email link to promote a different product.
- stephnass 6y ago
  Hi tmpz22, 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.
  - bingdig 6y ago
    1,200 slide decks =/= 1,200 slides
  - haltingproblem 6y ago
    Why? You are providing a free service, you are completely at liberty to promote anything along with it. Don't let anyone guilt you out of that. Great job and keep at it!
  - tmpz22 6y ago
    Ya I was just a little confused by the title "1,200 slide decks by category...". Its perfectly fair to promote your product while providing a free service, but it does raise a mental flag of "if the goal is to promote product A, how valuable is token service B?". Regardless it's good to know these slides exist and reviewing them will help a lot of people (though I pray people skip the Theranos one as something that will influence their own companies).
  - stephnass 6y ago
    I just realized I did make a mistake in the title of the HN post. My apologies. It should read "startups slides" not "slide deck". You are correct. I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/
rogerdickey 6y ago
It is 60 startup slide decks, not 1,200 startup slide decks
- stephnass 6y ago
  Hi rogerdickey 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).
  - stephnass 6y ago
    I just realized I did make a mistake in the title of the HN post. My apologies. It should read "startups slides" not "slide deck". You are correct. I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/
chaRoule 6y ago
so you are selling publicly available data as your own? Not honest and you better call it out.
- Labo333 6y ago
  As specified in the post: "100% free"
  - jakeatport 6y ago
    Yes, but again he is harvesting emails by providing publicly available doc. Are you also with him for harvesting?
- nrmitchi 6y ago
  Lots of business exist only to collect "publicly available data", organize it, and re-sell it. No where did OP claim that he owned the data, and frankly "ownership" of this data wouldn't even make sense. They are the slide decks of existing, well known companies.
ingvul 6y ago
Thanks for this. I was looking for something similar last month.
stephnass 6y ago
Hi all, 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 :/
- thecoppinger 6y ago
  Are any of the slide decks for video games?
ugh123 6y ago
Certainly wouldn't lead with "Steal..." Would also be good to have a filter by industry/market/segment or whatever
- stephnass 6y ago
  Multiple filters will be for v2 :)
S-Stanley 6y ago
This seem to be a cool thing to use. But I have to dig to find what is what about. I think it should be more simple with a clear slogan or USP
redrubia 6y ago
Hey @stephnass Interested in adding a deck. Can you add a URL when submitting one - seems you can only do upload from PDF. This one comes from slideshare, so figured URL maybe easy for you to integrate in?

203 points by stephnass 6y ago

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ystad 6y ago

Where’s the url.?

bulka 6y ago
https://opendeck.app/ https://opendeck.app/ I would guess

fraggle222 6y ago

I would want a way to view all the slides for a particular deck together, but here it seems I can only click a slide and see just that slide, no way to go back or forwards. I know in some cases the full deck may not be available but often there is more than one that we should be able to page through.

stephnass 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I am definitely building that for the next release. 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://starthouse.xyz/, https://pitchdeckexamples.com/ https://pitchdeckexamples.com/, https://www.pitchdeckhunt.com/ https://www.pitchdeckhunt.com/

grinchygrinch 6y ago

There's already MIDI platform called OpenDeck https://github.com/paradajz/OpenDeck https://github.com/paradajz/OpenDeck

EGreg 6y ago
You know, it bothers me so much when this shows up as a criticism. You didn’t say it as one, but when I released the Q platform, for social networking apps, which we worked for years on since 2010 and earlier, people told us “rename your library, there is already a famous library Q for promises”. 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7334367
- ci5er 6y ago
  This is a fair beef. 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).
- antonvs 6y ago
  I've never heard of your "platform." I've heard of the Q promises library. 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.
stephnass 6y ago
I had no idea oO

dstroot 6y ago

My first suggestion is include a link in your post: https://opendeck.app/ https://opendeck.app/ Cheers!

stephnass 6y ago
Thanks, I have yet to get better at that Hackernews thing...

Marciplan 6y ago

Awesome! Could be nice to also include what Series the deck is for (Seed rounds pitch decks are vastly different than Series A and onwards)

stephnass 6y ago
Hi Marciplan! It's already included - although you cannot filter (yet) by funding stage, they are indicated on each slide next to the company name.
- johnwarila 6y ago
  Small feedback, on my end the contrast makes it very hard to read the names of the companies over the slides.
  - stephnass 6y ago
    Ok, I will increase contrat a bit. I cannot increase too much or the text will hide the slide...

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blululu 6y ago

Maybe not the intended purpose but this is a great resource for playing a round of slides roulette with friends over a video call. It’s an improv game where you go around and assign people with a random slide deck to present to the group. The more Corp speak and biz-talk the better. Fun way to hang out with friends remotely.

antonvs 6y ago
You have a different definition of fun than mine.
nom 6y ago
Slide roulette, improv, socializing, corp/biz speak. You just described my personal hell :D
taxcoder 6y ago
Neat idea. I would try adding the names of several managers and corp-speakers for the players to try to impersonate.
giantg2 6y ago
I was disappointed this wasn't going where I thought it was - a drinking game.

pk78 6y ago

2 things: - 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?

stephnass 6y ago
Hi pk78 - 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.
- pk78 6y ago
  Fair enough. If it's for potential customers, then it's probably better to make the email part optional? - 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.
- antonvs 6y ago
  "Slide deck" is an idiomatic phrase in English, which means a collection of slides. "1,200 startup slide decks" means 1200 collections of slides. If there are only 67 decks, you would say "67 startup slide decks."
  - deleted 6y ago
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- stephnass 6y ago
  I just realized I did make a mistake in the title of the HN post. My apologies. It should read "startups slides" not "slide deck". You are correct. I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/

saxelsen 6y ago

Great resource! I was looking for something like this for our seed round and really appreciate the objectiveness of just showing the slide decks, instead of it being the clickbaity "10 great pitch decks for yadayada". 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.

stephnass 6y ago
Hi Saxelsen 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.

tmpz22 6y ago

Where is the data coming from? Clicking download all returns only about 60 slide decks, and you're using the download email link to promote a different product.

stephnass 6y ago
Hi tmpz22, 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.
- bingdig 6y ago
  1,200 slide decks =/= 1,200 slides
- haltingproblem 6y ago
  Why? You are providing a free service, you are completely at liberty to promote anything along with it. Don't let anyone guilt you out of that. Great job and keep at it!
- tmpz22 6y ago
  Ya I was just a little confused by the title "1,200 slide decks by category...". Its perfectly fair to promote your product while providing a free service, but it does raise a mental flag of "if the goal is to promote product A, how valuable is token service B?". Regardless it's good to know these slides exist and reviewing them will help a lot of people (though I pray people skip the Theranos one as something that will influence their own companies).
- stephnass 6y ago
  I just realized I did make a mistake in the title of the HN post. My apologies. It should read "startups slides" not "slide deck". You are correct. I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/

rogerdickey 6y ago

It is 60 startup slide decks, not 1,200 startup slide decks

stephnass 6y ago
Hi rogerdickey 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).
- stephnass 6y ago
  I just realized I did make a mistake in the title of the HN post. My apologies. It should read "startups slides" not "slide deck". You are correct. I cannot edit the title, apparently. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to mislead anyone. It's an honest typo :/

chaRoule 6y ago

so you are selling publicly available data as your own? Not honest and you better call it out.

Labo333 6y ago
As specified in the post: "100% free"
- jakeatport 6y ago
  Yes, but again he is harvesting emails by providing publicly available doc. Are you also with him for harvesting?
nrmitchi 6y ago
Lots of business exist only to collect "publicly available data", organize it, and re-sell it. No where did OP claim that he owned the data, and frankly "ownership" of this data wouldn't even make sense. They are the slide decks of existing, well known companies.

ingvul 6y ago

Thanks for this. I was looking for something similar last month.

stephnass 6y ago

Hi all, 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 :/

thecoppinger 6y ago
Are any of the slide decks for video games?

ugh123 6y ago

Certainly wouldn't lead with "Steal..." Would also be good to have a filter by industry/market/segment or whatever

stephnass 6y ago
Multiple filters will be for v2 :)

S-Stanley 6y ago

This seem to be a cool thing to use. But I have to dig to find what is what about. I think it should be more simple with a clear slogan or USP

redrubia 6y ago

Hey @stephnass Interested in adding a deck. Can you add a URL when submitting one - seems you can only do upload from PDF. This one comes from slideshare, so figured URL maybe easy for you to integrate in?