... very first person who mentioned PH here :) Comment from Dogan Akbulut(@doganakbulut): Great question! Here are my 5 essentials: Notion my second brain for notes, projects, and planning 2. Claude / ChatGPT brainstorming, drafting, and thinking through complex problems 3. VS Code can't write a single line of code without it 4. Slack async communication keeps my team in sync 5. Loom nothing beats a quick video when text just doesn't cut it Curious how many people overlap ... ... test in the browser saves me hours of manual dev work. Claude / ChatGPT Essential for brainstorming, structuring logic, and refining raw ideas into punchy copy. Canva My go-to for rapid graphic design. I can spin up polished presentation decks

... spent 8 years as a VC. Invested in 47 companies, read thousands of decks, sat through hundreds of pitches. And the whole time, from my side of the table, I kept noticing the same thing. The founders struggling to raise usually didn't have worse ideas. They were the ones who couldn't get in front of the right investors, or were emailing the wrong ones with the wrong message. Then I started a newsletter. It grew to 18k founders ... ... start. Both ended the same way. No meetings. That's when it clicked for me. The information was never the problem. Knowing what to do with it was. So I built VC Boom to close that gap. Score your deck

... Robert here, co-founder of DECKO. After years on the VC side evaluating hundreds of pitch decks

... apps like Anki or Quizlet. You want to remember what you learn. You've tried apps that promise to help, but they keep getting in the way. Let me guess: you opened Anki once. Saw dozens of options. Tags, decks, subdecks, burying intervals, custom scheduling, plugins, themes, synchronization, statistics, add-ons... and closed it. Or you downloaded Quizlet. Found pre-made decks

... Ollama instance. Run powerful models like Llama3 or Qwen entirely offline. Zero API costs. 100% total privacy. You can now feed your most confidential study materials to the AI, and the data literally never leaves your laptop. Live Flashcard Decks on the Canvas: You can now drop full study decks

... Most founders don t actually want to be good at fundraising . They want to be good at building. The problem is that investors usually only see: One deck One call One carefully timed update All the real signal lives in the weeks in between: Features shipped Customers retained Small experiments that quietly move the needle What if that trail of work became your track record something investors could actually see? That s what we re building with OMISP: A credit ... ... hack. You need a visible track record. OMISP is the credit score and live radar for founders your progress is your pitch. Soft CTA: If you re a founder who d rather earn your reputation with builds than with decks

... just about content creation it s about automating strategy and scale. New Premium Workflows Unlocked Premium users now get access to three powerful, time-saving engines: 1. URL to Campaign Strategy Automate Market Differentiation. Stop wasting hours on manual competitor research. How it works: Enter any competitor

... replies, retweets and DMs to harvest the language your audience actually uses. 2. Rapid-fire experiments We never waited for launch day. Instead, we treated our entire buildup as a real-time lab: Email CTA swaps ( Try Chronicle Pro vs. See Cursor in action ) Slack micro-polls in our beta channel ( Which benefit would you tweet? ) Tweet thread formats (numbered list vs

... Zapier, Clever, Omaze, and a few others at the seed stage. This summer I'm spending time helping early-stage founders and learning from them. If you're raising or planning to raise, I'm happy to review your deck and offer honest feedback to help you sharpen the story from an investor's perspective. In return, I'd love to ask you a few quick questions about your fundraising experience. What's working, what's frustrating ... ... have much to share...particularly the frustrations. I'd love to have a conversation about the process. Thank you! Leon Xue Comment from Mike Stachowiak(@mike_stachowiak): @martyd  You are correct, YC does not look pitch decks

... there, lately I ve been thinking on why do presentations still feel so manual? Even with all the tools out there, making a deck still takes a ton of effort. And once it s done, it s usually just a bunch of static slides. You present, people (hopefully) listen, and that s it. Especially for things like onboarding or training, it still feels like a one-way street. Just curious: Have you seen any tools that actually make presentations more ... ... interactive or automated? What s your process like from idea to final deck

... been reworking my pitch deck framework lately and noticed something: The most effective decks

... Startups are moving fast. But design? It s still stuck in the mud. Founders are shipping MVPs in weeks, but waiting months for brand decks. They re trying to raise funding with landing pages that look like they were made in a rush (because they were). And agencies? Most are bloated, slow, and stuck in outdated processes. So I built Badfish Labs a no-bullsh*t design studio that moves like a startup. What does that mean? It means ... ... endless revisions. No crappy strategy decks

... Pitch decks are hard, they can make or break your attempt to get funding. I've seen a ton of advice go around on how to optimize a pitch deck

... Attention PH Community! I'm Noyan and I'm currently working on Decktopus AI, which generates fully designed decks