What's the step you wish could disappear forever?

For me, it's definitely formatting. I don't mind researching, writing, or even designing slides, but spending 30 minutes nudging text boxes, aligning elements, and fixing spacing feels like the least valuable part of the whole process.

The step I'd kill: rebuilding context every time. Not the design, not the formatting - the part where 30% of prep time goes toward reconstructing the same narrative from scratch because every deck for a slightly different audience means starting over. You have the data, you have the story, but translating it into slides that land for this specific person on this specific call still takes forever. If I could say "same story, investor lens" and have the structure adapt - that alone would be worth more than any template.

Formatting, no contest.

It's never one pass. You fix the spacing, the font goes off, you fix that and the alignment breaks, then a text box is hanging off the edge in full screen. I've lost real hours nudging boxes 2 pixels at a time.

Writing the content's fine, that's the thinking part. It's fixing the same deck 4 times that feels like a tax on shipping.

“Designing slides.” When I’m busy, just the thought of having to design slides feels like a chore, or even downright annoying!

For me I don't really do much presentation but there's a gap between "writing content" and "designing slides."
Trying to force a strong pitch narrative into a rigid visual template usually ruins the flow. If a tool could seamlessly auto-design around the actual story I'm trying to tell here, that would be a massive game-changer for long run.

I feel like generating the code is going to be redundant at some point, and the output will just be generated. Like do we really need the hardware at the end, or can we just simulate it by predicting it?

For me it's not the slides, it's the reconciling step afterwards. Copying the same info between your store, your email tool, your community and your payments just so they all agree on who bought what and who still has access. It's pure overhead and it breaks every time something changes.

I'd delete that one forever. It's most of why I'm building DukieX, so the customer, the purchase, the access and the support history sit in one place instead of being stitched back together by hand every week. We launch on Product Hunt Wednesday.

Slides design is the most time consuming portion for me

I would say biggest thing for me is keeping the slides visually consistent while adding enough variety to keep it engaging.

So perhaps a master slide that defines the main typeface, hierarchy of things and populate the rest of the slides by moving things around.