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Show HN: GifDeck – Convert SlideShare presentations into GIFs

29 points| jaip | 11 years ago |gifdeck.in

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_puk|11 years ago

Really nice implementation.

Couple of comments:

The input box doesn't give visual feedback on text highlight. I was trying a few URLs and it took me a second to realise I had selected the text to overwrite (disappeared on backspace).

The save dialog always presents the filename as slideshare-as-a.gif. Suggest you use the last part of the slideshare link to generate the filename.

Updating the location bar dynamically when adjusting settings as well as using query params is always useful.

Being stuck with a wiki that won't allow linking to slideshare, I can see a real world use for this.

Is there an API available?

Minor points aside, looks and works great.

jaip|11 years ago

Thanks a lot for the appreciation and feedback. I completely agree with all the points mentioned. The first issue has already been fixed.

There is no API as of now, mainly because it was developed as a client side technology. Everything happens on the user's browser. I'll consider making one though.

cratermoon|11 years ago

Limited to 256 colors, bloated (poor) compression, and overall terrible old legacy format.

I'd throw that image at gfycat.com faster than you can say "next slide please". Even the twitter example given -- twitter has already converted the gif to mp4. Why waste the bandwidth uploading something that's just going to get transcoded anyway?

miah_|11 years ago

I will just wait for a animated gif output for Pandoc, which already turns my Markdown (and other files) into beautiful slide shows in a variety of formats.

ckluis|11 years ago

Nice implementation, but I still prefer something like gif brewery where I can set the parameters myself.

jaip|11 years ago

There is actually a settings icon right next to the submit button. You can specify the parameters there. It could be easy to miss.

sheetjs|11 years ago

I'd like to see this concept (presentation to GIF) for powerpoint (PPT/PPTX).

turnersd|11 years ago

would be nice to see this work with GitHub's speakerdeck (IMHO, much nicer than slideshare)

arel|11 years ago

Nice product. Some constructive advice - whilst naughty swear words are fine between friends and on your blog, on your product's home page it gives the impression of childishness and unprofessionalism.

jpdlla|11 years ago

I couldn't agree more.