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

203 points| stephnass | 5 years 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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[+] blululu|5 years ago|reply
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|5 years ago|reply
You have a different definition of fun than mine.
[+] giantg2|5 years ago|reply
I was disappointed this wasn't going where I thought it was - a drinking game.
[+] taxcoder|5 years ago|reply
Neat idea. I would try adding the names of several managers and corp-speakers for the players to try to impersonate.
[+] nom|5 years ago|reply
Slide roulette, improv, socializing, corp/biz speak. You just described my personal hell :D
[+] stephnass|5 years ago|reply
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 :/

[+] tmpz22|5 years ago|reply
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|5 years ago|reply
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.

[+] pk78|5 years ago|reply
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|5 years ago|reply
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.

[+] saxelsen|5 years ago|reply
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|5 years ago|reply
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.

[+] Marciplan|5 years ago|reply
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|5 years ago|reply
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.

[+] fraggle222|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] redrubia|5 years ago|reply
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?
[+] S-Stanley|5 years ago|reply
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
[+] ingvul|5 years ago|reply
Thanks for this. I was looking for something similar last month.
[+] rogerdickey|5 years ago|reply
It is 60 startup slide decks, not 1,200 startup slide decks
[+] stephnass|5 years ago|reply
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).

[+] ugh123|5 years ago|reply
Certainly wouldn't lead with "Steal..." Would also be good to have a filter by industry/market/segment or whatever
[+] stephnass|5 years ago|reply
Multiple filters will be for v2 :)
[+] chaRoule|5 years ago|reply
so you are selling publicly available data as your own? Not honest and you better call it out.
[+] nrmitchi|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] Labo333|5 years ago|reply
As specified in the post: "100% free"
[+] grinchygrinch|5 years ago|reply
There's already MIDI platform called OpenDeck https://github.com/paradajz/OpenDeck
[+] EGreg|5 years ago|reply
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