Slingshow

Hey all! @jorge_fuentes and I have been working on Slingshow for more than a year, and we’re so excited to launch on PH finally. Thanks, @katmanalac for hunting us! Last year, we were in YC W20, pivoting through several ideas, but then the pandemic hit. Suddenly, our cohort was just a series of monotonous Zoom webinars where we just quietly watched. We quickly lost the magic of interacting with the community – the random conversations, catching a panelist after the event, etc. We started wondering, why aren’t larger groups like webinars more interactive? Slingshow is the simplest way to create a variety of custom events where attendees are not just passive viewers but engaged participants. Think Zoom, but with a beautiful and flexible user interface that allows organizers to plan everything in advance and seamlessly flow between the typical presentation and more social and interactive formats. We heavily focused on design – not just beautiful aesthetics but how it all works together. It’s simple yet powerful, but not heavy and complicated like a conference platform. In Slingshow, we encapsulate different formats into Blocks like free-flowing networking, groups, presentations, etc. Just mix and match these blocks and add them to your schedule and we’ll automatically generate a registration page, emails, a cover image, and the entire attendee experience. Add a logo and brand color, and Slingshow will automatically theme the entire event to feel like your brand. We’d love to get your feedback. Please drop a comment below and let us know what you think. Thanks!

Been a really happy user of Slingshow at UCLA DevX (a college student organization). we ran every single one of our large group events virtually over the last year due to the pandemic and Slingshow enabled us to closely replicate the social energy of IRL! If you’re running large group events, I cannot recommend Slingshow enough.

Remarkable work on the modular block concept. It's something I wish a _lot_ more products and tools utilized. I'm glad to see innovators take design paradigms to the next level and not play it safe :)

Congrats @nilay_modi and @jorge_fuentes. Big fan of the way you've done the blocks, really cool approach to take the effort and learning-curve away from the user.

Finally, I can see a compact tool for conducting community events. Simpler than Airmeet and more advanced options than Zoom/Webex/Zoho. Is the mobile version available?

Love the idea of template blocks! What’s next on your roadmap?

We used Slingshow for our webinars and it completely changed our virtual presence. Slingshow creates an experience, it’s a welcome relief from boring Zoom events. Use it, you won’t be disappointed.