Ask HN: Would you use and/or pay for a web API to create PowerPoint slides?

Posted by waterside81 on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:39PM
from the ask-hn dept.

If you had access to a REST API to create PowerPoint slides would you use it? If yes, would you pay for it? If yes, how much? Would you prefer a per month fee that allows X presentation or would you prefer a charge per presentation?

Any feedback is much appreciated.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you use and/or pay for a web API to create ... by jconley on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @12:02AM (#2357939)

Based on this description, no, it isn't something I'd use. Why wouldn't I just load up PowerPoint (or Google Docs) and drag on some text fields? What market and use cases are you thinking of?

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Re:Ask HN: Would you use and/or pay for a web API to create ... by waterside81 on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @08:09AM (#2358999)

But you're still doing things manually. I guess what I'm angling for is the case where you might what to generate lots of reports automagically. So every 30th day of the month you need to automate the creation of 30 presentations and email them to managers.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you use and/or pay for a web API to create ... by ronaktal on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:09PM (#2357779)

How would this work? So it generates content from my data?

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Re:Ask HN: Would you use and/or pay for a web API to create ... by waterside81 on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @08:07AM (#2358996)

Yes precisely.

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