Draftsend

Hi Product Hunt 👋 I’m Hiten, co-founder of Draftsend. Our team has been working hard and we’re super excited to share it with the Product Hunt community! We decided to rethink what’s possible with presentations, starting with audio. With Draftsend your presentations won't ever have to speak for themselves again. Draftsend lets you narrate your presentations, share them publicly and privately via a link or an embed, and track what people do with them. Just upload a PDF of your presentation. Then you can add audio to it. During our early access period we’ve seen people use Draftsend for a range of different things. To share a recorded presentation instead of having a meeting, give more context to a document they shared within their company, and give details about the work they did for a client. There are core parts of this experience we’re still looking to learn about and would love your opinion and feedback on. Here are a few of the questions we have: - Do you want to record, or are you more prone to share without audio? (which you can do too!) - How long would you want to record for? Ten minutes? Over an hour? - What types of use cases do you see yourself adding audio to in your presentations? We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments, via in-app Drift chat, or email me at hiten@draftsend.com or @hnshah on twitter. Since our goal is to learn and make Draftsend even better, if you sign up today by visiting from Product Hunt, you’ll get the Lite plan free for life so you can share your public and private presentations using Draftsend.

We’re really excited to see what you do with Draftsend! During early access, we learned how to refine the recording experience and iterated quite a bit to get to what we have today. We also learned about the different ways that people were using Draftsend. We were surprised at how many unexpected use cases came up. Here are a few we’ve learned about so far: - A founder talking through an investor update instead of just sending an email. - A salesperson pitching a prospect in their own voice, without a phone call. - A designer sharing brand work with their client. - A CEO recording each board meeting deck to share with investors and their team. - A marketer talking through a weekly analytics report to give more context. - A customer success person creating a training presentation to onboard new clients instead of doing a webinar or phone call for each customer. - A teacher sharing a recorded lecture with students as part of their homework. - A student recording their class presentation to rehearse, and sharing it with peers. We know that the Product Hunt community loves to learn so we’ve put together a page of featured presentations that your 👀 and 👂 will ❤️. https://draftsend.com/examples?r... We’re really excited to learn about more use cases from the Product Hunt community!!

Cool product! It definitely beats using PowerPoint with a screen record going. I have made YouTube videos for presentations where this would have been perfect to use. I could definitely see course makers using this in the future, too.

It was super easy and enjoyable to create a presentation. I'm excited to try this tool in Appcues' marketing efforts. (Here's a link to the presentation I created: How Startup Marketing is Like Surfing: https://draftsend.com/documents/... )

The best type of product...the one where you see it and you go "duh, why didn't I think of this". Good luck @hnshah and team

I think one cool feature is the slide-by-slide (or page-by-page) audio recording, which makes it easier to control and come off a bit more polished than using a continuous screen recording. For internal sharing, that might not be as much of an issue but for sharing with an external audience ... I know I've struggled in the past to get everything right in one take! Excited to try Draftsend to create more presentations and content for marketing at Customer.io. (You can see the quick one about onboarding emails I did here: https://draftsend.com/janetchoi/......)

Congratulations @hnshah and @marie_prokopets! I was lucky enough to to test out the beta, and was blown away by how easy it was to record a presentation. Before Draftsend, this involved hours of practice to perfect a 15 minute talk track, followed by clumsy editing with complicated and slow video editing software, exporting to the right format, uploading to Vimeo... and so on. With draftsend, you can take your presentation one slide at a time, making it much easier to create something polished without a lot of rehearsal and editing. After which you can share in single click. My point being, it's rare to see a tool emerge that makes it 10x easier to create a rich piece of content. Tools like this are exciting because they lower the bar just enough to empower a much larger audience with a rich new form of expression. Now comes the fun part: seeing all the amazing content people create with Draftsend!