Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data

Re:Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software tha... by mpeg on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:43AM (#39861555)

Does it export to powerpoint? I have the same issue where my client wants weekly data driven decks and I’ve automated the data part but the presentation layer I offload to other people who often make mistakes copy/pasting or with the charts

However, my client still wants a .pptx that looks great because they then present it internally, and while the current workflow isn’t great it’s very cheap and effortless (for me, at least)

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Re:Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software tha... by malshe on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:41AM (#39863360)

I use Quarto to automate slides creation and output as PowerPoint. You can even use a premade PowerPoint template so that the output slides are pretty much done.

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Re:Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software tha... by mpeg on Friday March 29, 2024 @11:38AM (#39865375)

Nice, I didn't know about it – I took a quick look at the templating options and it seems like it might do the job. Thanks!

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Re:Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software tha... by go_prodev on Friday March 29, 2024 @11:37AM (#39865356)

Thanks for the recommendation, Quarto might be just what I've been looking for.

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Re:Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software tha... by johnstimac111 on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:29PM (#39868043)

That tool looks really cool! We hadn't come across that one before, but we did look into a lot of embedding solutions back when we were making these kinds of presentations regularly.

I think with Thorntale we're actually trying to take a slightly different route to a solution; being the actual presentation tool is going to unlock a lot of interactivity features that exporting to powerpoint probably can't ever do. Hopefully we'll be able to show some of those off after a few more months of dev!

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Re:Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software tha... by dori23 on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:02PM (#39867105)

We do plan to add export as .pptx, .pdf, and to google slides.

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