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Re:Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI rev... by scrollaway on Monday September 22, 2025 @06:40PM (#45340496)
Question to you folks, do you have any luck with ai tools that are able to generate clean PPT based designs (or some other non-PPT tool that can generate clean PDFs)?

Like, with Claude Code I can generate a bunch of web pages based on a core design and components. But doing consistent presentations is very difficult unless you have a super simple template.

Re:Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI rev... by ellenfkh on Monday September 22, 2025 @06:57PM (#45340656)
Our main tool (app.thorntale.com) is this concept! But yeah, the problem we've noticed is that without a lot of constraints, the generated presentations look very disjointed and tend to be incoherent.

My theory is that while Claude and similar can generate html-based documents fine, presentation slides are such an unconstrained medium that it's closer to image generation than code generation, so getting it to have a stable style is much more difficult. We constrained our app to a Notion-like architecture for this reason.

Re:Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI rev... by scrollaway on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:58AM (#45343672)
Send me an email, would love to chat.
Re:Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI rev... by 0914730732674 on Monday September 22, 2025 @07:17PM (#45340827)
Marp (Markdown Presentation) works well for me:

https://marp.app/

https://github.com/marp-team/awesome-marp

And outlining is easier than in Powerpoint, even if one doesn't use an LLM.

Re:Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI rev... by scrollaway on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:56AM (#45343660)
Looks very cool! Are there UI tools that work with it though or is it all text based?