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JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

A pitch deck is a lossy compression of reality tuned for maximum appeal. A pitch .md in a GitHub repo is version-controlled, forkable, and transparent.

You can see the entire history of how the founders described their own company.

That's a better signal than gradient fills.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-pitch-deck-is-dead-write-a-pitch-md-instead/

Westenberg.

The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.

Every week, thousands of founders open Canva or Google Slides or, God help them, PowerPoint, and begin the ritual. They agonize over fonts. They nudge logos three pixels to the left. They workshop whether the TAM slide should come before or after the team slide, as though the ordering of
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Christoffer S.
Christoffer S.
@nopatience@swecyb.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

@Daojoan Great article! I made me reflect on how easy it has become to build SaaS-applications using services like Lovable.

On the surface they look awesome, and they might even function. But what lies beneath polished facade? Has the idea behind the service been carefully curated and refined over time?

The pitch deck / Lovable SaaS are they not perhaps the same thing?

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Local Agency
Local Agency
@laprice@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

@Daojoan oh my; you are fully committing to the bit.

Best of luck.

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