The plugin gave us quick feedback from a smaller but design-savvy community, which helped validate the concept before investing in a full standalone app. We learned where it fell short (limited reach, constrained workflows), and that feedback directly pushed us to build the standalone version you see now.
In hindsight, going standalone earlier might have reached more users, but starting small made it possible to iterate quickly and not overbuild.
I’m a student founder, and Snapdeck has been a 6-month sprint from idea to product. In March I hacked together a minimal version and launched it on Product Hunt just to see if anyone else had the same frustration with slides — and people did. A couple of months later I tried a Figma plugin version, which brought in more feedback but still felt limited.Yesterday we launched the first full...
About 50 days ago I teamed up with my high school friend. We basically lived together 24/7, building Snapdeck — an AI slide builder (like Gamma, but fully editable and powered by our own model).We just closed a $200k institutional seed round, and in 2 days we’re launching on Product Hunt.Our ambition is simple but bold: to make PowerPoint unnecessary for quick internal decks.I’m both nervous...