Show HN: Slaide, open-source Markdown slides AI writes and PowerPoint opens
Slaide is an open-source tool that lets users write slide decks in plain‑text markdown with a small YAML theme and then generate web decks, PDFs, and editable PowerPoint files from the same source. The system is designed to be AI‑friendly, allowing large language models to produce correct slides without dealing with brittle PPTX XML. It includes a CLI, native desktop app, and supports importing existing presentations and exporting back to PowerPoint with editable elements.
- ▪Slaide uses markdown for content and a tiny YAML theme for design, keeping source files under 10 KB.
- ▪It can import .pptx files, convert them to editable .slaide text, and export back to editable PowerPoint.
- ▪The tool is released under the Apache‑2.0 license and provides a command‑line interface and a standalone desktop viewer.
- ▪Slaide claims to reduce AI token usage for slide generation by 40–80% compared to traditional PPTX formats.
- ▪It supports features such as speaker notes, transitions, media embeds, and incremental reveals directly from the text source.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 34 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ This open-source Markdown editor is replacing every other writing app I use — XDA Developers
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Slaide |
| Canonical URL | https://getslaide.com/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:21:17 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-31T07:27:55.973Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-31T07:27:55.973Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ggjov-rjXSn3 · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
The slide language Presentations,handed to AIthe right way. A slide language AI can actually write. One plain-text .slaide file becomes a polished web deck, a print-ready PDF, and editable PowerPoint - from the same source. Get started → See how it works ✓ Apache-2.0 core✓ no lock-in✓ imports your .pptx✓ Slaide for iPhone getslaide.com try me - it's live. ← → to flip, ⤢ to present. RENDER TO WORKS WITH Apache-2.0 Star on GitHub 01 · The problem Your model just neededa better format. You never needed a smarter model - AI already writes a great deck; the intelligence was never the bottleneck. The format is. Ask a model for a deck and it chokes on .pptx - megabytes of brittle XML - so you get broken layouts and walls of bullet points.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Slaide.
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