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Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

by ashiban on 1/27/23, 8:00 PM with 36 comments

• by ashiban on 1/27/23, 8:01 PM

  When I was putting together the pitchdeck for our startup I wanted to search for slides to learn from - but I was looking for specific sections or types of startups for slide decks. I had to open tens of decks and scroll through them which sucked. So I decided to make a tool that would allow me to search inside the decks more easily. Happy to answer questions

• by gnabgib on 1/27/23, 9:47 PM

  Other products in this space: OpenDeck (2020-Oct-11, 47 comments, 203pts)[0], PitchDeckHunt (2020-Mar-26, 3 comments, 6pts)[1], BillionDollarPitchDecks (2022-03-23, 17 comments, 80pts)[2]

  A question of where the decks where sourced and whether there's rights to redistribute sometimes comes up.

  [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745542 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308267 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783677

• by moralestapia on 1/27/23, 10:59 PM

  Are these real?

  Some of these seems like something an AI would generate. thispitchdeckdoesnotexist or whatever.

  https://search-the-deck-images.s3.amazonaws.com/Heyday__37.p...

• by jph on 1/27/23, 11:14 PM

  Nice work! I added SearchTheDeck to my pitch deck repo of advice:

  https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/pitch-deck/

• by scrollaway on 1/27/23, 9:52 PM

  What's happening with some of your slides? The text looks like it's drunk.

  https://search-the-deck-images.s3.amazonaws.com/MONZO__5.png...

• by Nicholas_C on 1/28/23, 3:06 AM

  Wow, very cool! I’m building almost the exact same thing but for public company investor relations decks as a side project. My use case stemmed from building decks in investment banking, very similar to yours.

• by _boffin_ on 1/28/23, 3:26 AM

  Let me make a suggestion, paginate and don't display full resolution that's scaled down to thumbnail size. I was able to scroll down and keep scrolling and then collected ~1,000 slides by just doing Command+S.

  Great site none the less.

• by spankalee on 1/28/23, 1:24 AM

  Why aren't the slides linking to the decks? All it does is full-screen the image.

• by asdsaddsadsaads on 1/28/23, 1:53 AM

  I am having trouble loading this, lots of very high resolution thumbnails.

• by ohyoutravel on 1/27/23, 10:53 PM

  This is cool, I was in a similar position when I was going to try to raise some money for a potential product (which I didn’t end up doing…). I was thinking about putting something together like this for fun out of the hundred or so of decks I downloaded and had found online, but wasn’t sure how to go about requesting permission from all the deck creators and even managing how to find them. So I didn’t go through with it.

  The fact that you were able to get permission from all these people, with an order of magnitude more decks than I had is astounding! Kudos, do you mind if I ask about the secret sauce to how you were able to get all these deck authors to agree to let you use these on your site?

• by tmilard on 1/28/23, 3:47 PM

  Does it comes from a time startup spent too much time on slides. Product is -we know now- so much more important.

• by moserch on 2/1/23, 9:47 AM

  Thank you for building and sharing this. Awesome resource!

• by DLA on 1/28/23, 3:10 AM

  This is awesome work! Is there a way to get the entire deck when you land on a slide through search?

• by Mortiffer on 1/27/23, 11:23 PM

  The search does not seem to be returning what your searching. Example search "IPFS" nothing comes up that mentions IPFS or related tech . I guess this is a fake it till you make it POC ?