u/GeorgeScott1032

I’ve been building an AI presentation tool called Decksy because I kept running into the same problem

Most AI presentation tools focus on the last 20% of the process, which are themes, animations, colors, templates, transitions. But they usually don`t cover the part people struggle the most with.

It’s that phase where you have messy notes, scattered research, half-formed ideas or too much information and no clear structure yet.

So basically the thing is that we need to do many presentations while not being designers. We just have a task, we need to pitch it to clients or probably make some pptx to show some data, but making presentations is actually harder than we think.

That’s the part we’ve been focusing on with Decksy. Not just generating slides, but helping turn unstructured input into a presentation that actually flows logically.

A big focus for us has been:

  • structure
  • narrative flow
  • deeper research
  • and reducing the amount of manual cleanup after generation

It saves a lot of time when you already have the material or ideas, but not enough time (or presentation experience) to turn everything into a well-structured deck yourself.

One thing I do want to say clearly though:

This is still a tool, not a replacement for professional designers.

Decksy works well for work presentations, student projects, internal decks, pitches, and general communication.

Do you use any ai presentation makers and what is your experience with them? Or maybe there are features you wish were added?

But if you need something highly creative, deeply branded, or built for high-level marketing campaigns, custom design work is still on another level entirely.

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u/GeorgeScott1032 — 10 days ago

What is the best ai presentation maker?

There are many tools out there, so as a person closely connected to developing my own tool, I wonder which ones you like to use and why.

Main things I care about:

  • strong design quality
  • fast workflow
  • easy editing afterward
  • good PPT/Google Slides export
  • doesn’t feel overly generic

Would love to hear:

  • what’s worked well for you
  • what disappointed you
  • and which tools you keep coming back to long term
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u/GeorgeScott1032 — 10 days ago

Why starting a presentation is always the hardest part

People use to think the hard part of presentations was design, but it’s actually the first 10 minutes.

It’s that moment where everything is still messy in your head and you’re trying to force it into a slide structure. That’s where most people get stuck - not because they don’t know the topic, but because they don’t yet know how to organize it.

A few things that helped me over time:

  • Don’t open a slide tool first - start with rough structure on paper or notes
  • Write the “story” in plain words before thinking in slides
  • Reduce everything to one main idea per slide before touching design
  • Accept that the first version will be messy - clarity comes after structure, not before

I actually realized later that this exact problem (starting from structure instead of design) is what most presentation tools skip. That’s basically what we cover at Decksy - to help with that first step so you’re not staring at a blank slide trying to figure everything out at once.

Do you structure first, or go straight into slides?

u/GeorgeScott1032 — 15 days ago