Why I decided to start MeetSlides

About 3 years ago I joined my current employer. Yes, I’m bootstrapping and have not quit my day job yet. I joined venture backed company early on a position of a lead software engineer.
At some point, company was expiring enormous growth: from 20 to 300 employees during 1.5 years period of time. Number of engineers grew from 2 to 30.

After discussion with CTO, we decided to hire and train no previous experience engineers. For two reasons:
— they are cheap;
— we wanted to build a product culture RnD department. In our region most engineers working in outsourcing companies. And it’s not a proper fit for us.

So, one of my direct responsibilities became training new engineers. By the way, I became Director of Engineering at that time.

At some day, I realised I’m going to make five training presentation that day. And that I’m not making any slides or google slide -like presentations anymore. I just have no time for that.

Other that that, I hate editing google slides for a couple more reasons.

First, all the time I getting distracted from the topic I wanted to communicate. I spent too much time fixing layout, fonts, sizes, languages, colours, backgrounds and other things. And the worst, I do it in the middle of process of figuring out the message I want to communicate.

Second. I’m not happy with the result. Over time crafted my own presentation template, and it’s much better than standard themes. And yet it’s just subpar.

Also, I was looking for a business idea I would understand the customer standpoint. So, I wrote my pain points and add this idea to the list of my business ideas.

After some period of time, I decided to give it shot create an online software which would help me and hopefully others to create slides for their presentations.

My requirements were simple:
— I should be able to focus on my message content during creating slides;
— Slides should looks nice without extra effort;
— Creating slides should take no more time as creating presentation checklist.

And so today is the first day I’m showing the product to public. I would love to experience product and leave you feedback, please try MeetSlides yourself https://meetslides.com!

Thank you!