Why is it useful? - Present slides without sharing the screen and have every one be on the same page. - Present together with other cohosts and all control the current page. - Other features such as presentation collab features.
Why should I not just vibe code my own solution? - Its a hassle to maintain a version online.
Just a datapoint but Microsoft Teams (most commonly paired with users of Powerpoint) has an option to share and present just a slide deck where viewers can tag along the presenter or jump forward and back to view the rest of the deck independently from presenter.
But in quite a few cases presenter would want to control when information is presented/revealed to audience.
This looks clever. I've seen PPT to web tools before (https://sparkslides.com/publish/, https://slidehtml5.com/), but I think the slide synchronization idea is new. I can't evaluate more than that as I don't use these.
In the past I have liked marp (https://marp.app/) for technical slides as you write in markdown, can use version control, etc. Powerpoint always felt odd as a developer.
To share public slides I've published to GitHub pages (https://github.com/robalexdev/marp-to-pages). I've seen professors use it for all their slides. But that doesn't synchronize slides, last I checked.
Reveal.js with the multiplex plugin [0] does that. I write my presentation in Quarto [1] and render them to reveal.
I am not sure there are many instances where I would be comfortable uploading my slides to a random website?
I know. Kinda hard to develop trust, but I am considering making all slides E2E encrypted or at least have the option for it.
I wanted to first know if people would like something like this.
Did you explore client-side for the presentation, and just do the collaborative part use a backend? Your backend doesn't really need to know whats on the screen to draw, nor to sync the slides, in my unverified opinion.
Interesting Idea for engagement. Although I think slides suck in general and often used for one way communication, especially suck for Software Development. A doc is much more preferable and a lot of collaborative docs like Google Doc exist.
amazing, is this a business or just a fun project? do you have data privacy /zdr guarantees ?
this is built into teams
In a previous position, we used Adobe Connect a lot for online meetings, and the normal way of sharing presentations was to upload them to the room and control the presentation from there.
Webex has this as well, but I find that most people don't bother and just share their screen.
What's the use case? Lots of people use powerpoint and can't escape the microsoft ecosystem anyway.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/present-from-...