Thanks @bramk for hunting Ludus! It feels great to be here!
My name is Vincent Battaglia and I’m a Co-Founder and CTO at Ludus. We are happy to finally show the world what we’ve been working on during the past few months.
Right now, you’re probably wondering why the world needs another presentation tool so we wrote an article to explain why it makes sense to us: https://medium.com/@vinchbat/mee... (tl;dr: sharing and compatibility are not great with desktop apps like PowerPoint or Keynote, web-based apps like Google Slides lack critical features that are very important for designers and don’t allow to easily integrate third-party web contents).
We are currently in private beta but we’ll send invites pretty quickly (within 48 hours max).
Let us know if you have any questions.
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@vinch Looks great... I would love to give it a try!
@vinch it's funny that you explained why you called it Ludus but didn't mention the connection to Ready Player One! (If you don't know the connection, you must go read the book!)
@chrismessina Originally, that's the reason why we called it Ludus! RPO is one of my favorite books! Can't wait to see what Steven Spielberg will do with it!
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@vinch@bramk@vinchbat Yah, I got a question....Can I get me one of those private beta invites? Thanks! :D
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DAAAAYUUUUUUMMMMMM......This is the most impressive software I have seen in 2017! I can't wait to get my hands on this! GIMMIE!
Great job on the video--this looks stellar! The smart blocks is so obviously necessary at this point, especially given Sketch's success...! A few thoughts: compatibility with Sketch files and symbols? What's the ability to share and collaborate with others? Can you share smart blocks too? Pricing model?
@chrismessina Thanks! We plan to work on some Sketch export features pretty soon. About collaboration, the current plan is individual but we are working on a team plan which will allow multiple people to work at the same time on the same presentation. The pricing is here: https://ludus.one/pricing/
@chrismessina Awesome! We are available if you have any questions!
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wow, this seems amazing. At our agency, we've used powerpoint, keynote and google slides and never really been satisfied. The features here look amazing. The video does an excellent job of really demonstrating it.
Animation support would be killer.
We're already looking into this as a solution for agency use.
Good work!
@xcast3d Thanks Xavier ! Surely keep us posted on your agency use-case, we're highly interested in it ! And as said elsewhere, animation are part of the roadmap already :-)
@dorian_van_bever@xcast3d Excited for this use case as well. I create at least 3-4 client-facing decks per week with help from designers and account people. I am curious to see how collaboration works with this, especially across disciplines.
It looks great! I look forward to it.
You can change your meta description though.
"The web is full of beautiful ideas and services. Ludus is the first one to provide an easy way to gather them all in a single place."
It doesn't mention slides; sounds more like automated curation.
This looks so amazing.
I feel like I can be a real designer.
Dope🚬🚬🚬
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Congrats on shipping Vincent + team! I had the privilege to play around with Ludus a couple weeks back and it's clear a tonne of attention has gone into it. Even at launch it feels super polished, which I'm sure will increase as the team respond to customer feedback.
What I like most about Ludus is that it's just intuitive. It does what you want it to and gets out the way whilst you do it. As any maker will know, delivering an intuitive experience is far from simple, so it impressed me to see this level of polish this early.
@fredrivett Thanks for you comment! It means a lot!
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Wow!! This is impressively cool. You've given Powtoon something to chew on. However, I do feel that for your product to get a powerful appreciation by users, your team should engage in some free time samples. These should be listed under EXAMPLES or some appropriate word you may choose. And while you do these samples, attached to them the time it took to complete each one. But it's a remarkable product. Cheers!!
@mou_jb Thanks for your feedback! Indeed, we will provide some tutorials and in the near future, provide assistance to the users who might need some help in the design/production phase.
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This is lit! Finger-cross that I can become one of the beta testers.
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