As a designer:<p>- Your site's design doesn't make me feel confident in wanting to work with you.<p>- That 'Become a Designer' form field is way too long. I'm not filling out a dating profile. You should be able to determine my ambition to work with you based on my reply alone, and you should be able to determine the quality of my work by my Dribbble and portfolios alone. All of the rest is just fluff.<p>- You don't mention the guaranteed rate?<p>- '..co-founded 99designs..' Ahh, I see. I'm done here.
Co-founder of Prettify here. Thanks for the feedback. We started working on this last thursday and this is our low fidelity MVP. We are totally embarrassed by the quality of our website right now, but they say if the MVP is not embarrassing, then it's launched too late so we forced ourself to "launch" early to get feedbacks. Sorry about the grammar mistakes, we drafted the copy in like 10 minutes and we were suppose to proof read it before we "launch", but it was forgotten.<p>Two things we will definitely work on from looking at all the feedbacks.
1. Add some sample work
2. Change the pricing model<p>We are thinking of add a pricing model of flat setup fee + lower per slide fee for those customer with bigger pitch deck. Another idea is "name your own price" model. What do you guys think?
Edit: I think this is a wonderful idea, and would use it, and can't wait for them to iterate. What I wrote below is intended to be constructive feedback.<p>I was ready to go for this, but $25 per slide doesn't work for me.<p>My deck is currently 30 slides. They're mostly low-content placeholders, many of them having 3 words or less, and they could all be handled by picking a nice theme, with maybe some minor tweaks.<p>However, some slides are content-heavy and could be optimized for attractiveness and "usability". And some will have to be redone because they make no sense or something.<p>So I could totally see paying for a customized theme and pallet and fixing the content-heavy slides and minor tweaks on the other slides, but that's not $750.<p>Also, 5 days sucks. Everyone I know always makes slides at the last minute. I'd could see paying 30% more for same day, or 50% more for 1 hour delivery though.
<i>> Choosing the wrong designer will cost you to loose both time and money.</i><p>Choosing the wrong copy editor will cost you credibility and customers. (There are <i>two</i> glaring errors in this sentence.) If it would look bad in a presentation, it looks bad for a presentation service site.
Cool startup, awesome domain name. I think there are alot of potential clients out there for this type of service. A company's pitch deck is what makes or breaks any investor pitch. Companies (or atleast the smart ones) realize this and are willing to invest to improve their chances of getting funded.<p>Btw: I run Pitchenvy.com, a gallery of pitch deck presentation examples. If you want to work out a commission based affiliate program, I'd be more than happy to partner with you. Lemme know if you're interested :)
I'd use this as an academic tool.. I have presentations to give quarterly to representatives from funding agencies.. Typically around 8-12 slides in my presentations.. the slides I see/ use are really boring.. whenever I see a well done presentation, I perk up and pay attention. If you use this as a potential niche.. some high quality graphing work etc. would be nice..
Sounds like a nice idea but just not impressed with the site. Also there are not examples of work. If I am going to pay someone to make my presentation pretty I want some examples of past work.<p>I am involved in Deck Foundry (<a href="http://deckfoundry.com" rel="nofollow">http://deckfoundry.com</a>) and we make amazing investor decks. The site looks nice and we have examples of work.
Overall, the site looks very genuine. The layout is simple and the wording is very concise and informative.<p>I agree with runemadsen. Just stating that the service offers professional designs and layout is not good enough. Some samples of work need to be provided on the site to justify a $25/slide basic price.<p>Also, there are some minor grammatical mistakes on the site. Consider some revising.
Very interesting service. Solves a real problem for me, our slides always look average. We were considering getting a designer on board and the slides would be a significant part of what they do.<p>That said, this might be suitable for a standard presentation, but for a full investor pitch I'm not sure if I'd use it.
Almost every item in the FAQ has grammatical errors in it. With no portfolio, fixing these would go a long ways to establishing more credibility -- especially when the product you are selling is polish.<p>Also, is the bar graph on the laptop image supposed to be an example of an ugly presentation, or a pretty one?
1. Show me some examples of what I can get for my money<p>2. Charging by the slide encourages a certain kind of presentation style. On the rare occasions that I do keynote presentations I usually have one very spare slide every few seconds, which ends up being thousands of dollars for one presentation.
Something about the price table is odd. You mention specifically the only difference between basic and premium is the stock photo budget, yet for a price difference of 30$ you get 20$ more budget?<p>As others here say I'd rework the pricing options a bit, other than that it's a good idea.
Cool idea, tons of execs and sales reps have corporate AMEX cards but use really boring/generic templates for all their presentations.<p>I think the lifetime value for customers could be high if you can deliver quality work consistently.
Is the bar graph an example of what the end product might look like? It seems like (slightly ugly) stock art. If your product is redesigned slides, you should show well designed slides.<p>Why aren't there more before/after examples?