I solo-built an AI workspace for decks, docs, sheets and resumes. Now I'm stuck on distribution.

Hey IH,

I'm Muhammad, a CS undergrad, and for the last few months I've been building EXdeck on my own (https://exdeck.xyz).

It started as an AI presentation maker, but I kept hitting the same wall with every AI tool I tried. They do one thing, and they lock you in. You get a pretty deck you can't really edit, or an export that isn't a real file. So I kept building until it became one workspace for the work students and small teams actually need:

- Presentations (real .pptx and PDF export, AI charts, AI diagrams)

- Documents (Word-style reports, proposals, essays, with tables and charts)

- Spreadsheets (plain-English editing, live formulas, real .xlsx export)

- Resumes (ATS-friendly templates, AI bullet refinement, clean PDF)

- Plus a diagram studio, a private in-browser file converter, and a PDF presenter

Two principles held the whole thing together. First, you always get a real, editable file you own, no lock-in. Second, it had to be cheap enough that a student wouldn't think twice, so Pro is $1.99 a month and most tools work on a free plan.

Stack is Next.js, TypeScript, Groq for the models, and Firebase. Almost everything runs client side for speed and privacy, and the server only does what the browser can't. The code is public on GitHub if anyone wants to look.

Here is where I'm honest. The product is in a good place. The distribution is not. I'm an engineer, so I kept building features instead of learning how to get the thing in front of people.

Traffic is low, and I know good SEO alone won't fix that for a new domain.

So I'd love your input on two things:

1. For an all-in-one tool like this, is broad positioning ("AI workspace") a mistake? Should I lead with one wedge (say, the resume builder or the PDF tools) and expand from there?

2. What actually moved the needle for you early on, before SEO kicked in?

Happy to return feedback on your project too. Thanks for reading.