Show HN: Use your phone to present slides on any screen

LOVE this, with one <i>major</i> caveat. I hate, Hate HATE the ads. It's a visceral level of rage that I find remarkable since that's not how I generally respond to in-app ads.<p>They're just so very very wrong in this context, mainly because they're deliberately distracting. For someone trying to focus on delivering a presentation, this is 100% unacceptable. It would be tolerable (barely) if the ad never changed, but when the damn thing changes every few seconds, it's more than enough to break one's concentration. And that is LETHAL for public speaking.<p>I know HN guidelines discourage the use of caps for emphasis, and I almost never use them for this reason. But my negative reaction was SO strong that it's worth breaking protocol just to emphasize how awful those intrusions really are.<p>Aside from that one hideous, terrible, awful, repulsive, glaring deal-killer of a flaw, this app is brilliant. Bottom line: I'd pay $5 for a version without ads. I'd refuse to use it with ads.

I really like your idea and its pretty self explanatory once you watch the demo. I also like that your demo is somehow hidden - you can't just watch it, you just use the product for the first time and learn it. Don't change it - it's fun and makes for a 'wow' moment.<p>After some time I started to wonder why I would need a QR... well... QR must be pairing a unique computer/ip/browser (?) with the phone, right? Nice.<p>I would not bother to add too much explanations on the main page - now its a little mistery and I like that demo is 'hidden' (see above). Also, dont add that both presentation machine and phone must be connected to the internet - it is evident and even if it is not, well, people will figure it out.<p>Edit: As others mentioned, need for network connection introduces some serious uncertainty. I just get it and would never take a plane (slide 5?) without a copy of my presentation on me.<p>Have not been presenting for quite a long time, but will surely give it a go when I do.<p><i>We recommend Scan for (iPhone) or Google Goggles for (Android).</i> You might want to fix ()'s: (for iPhone) (for Android)<p>Thumbnails for slides on the phone must be your next feature, am I right?

Brilliant work. I'm starting to use it, and I'd pay for it.<p>For me, it replaces:<p>0) Having to carry my MBP around if the only use is the presentation,<p>1) Plugging my Macbook Pro in, always carrying a Thunderbolt/vga and Thunderbolt/dvi adapter,<p>2) Trying to fiddle with almost always flaky cables to get projector working,<p>3) Setting up a ad-hoc wifi network, connecting my iPhone to that network,<p>4) But before that, removing the other saved Wifis because somehow both MBP and iPhone tends to ditch that Wifi and connect to the other ones available that has internet access, by default,<p>5) Open BetterTouchTool Remote on my iPhone,<p>6) Connect to the MBP from the app,<p>7) And finally start presenting.<p>I end up doing a presentation every week, at least. Job well done. I'm your first customer if you sell it.

Cute, but as someone who presents at conferences many times a year, I would never rely on a network connection.

Nice MVP, but it's not ready enough to use it.<p>I would need at least:<p>- offline mode, even if everything goes down it should work using the remote + I would like to know that we lost connection. Not sure if it's already working.<p>- authorization using QR<p>E.g. my best use case for this site: lightening talk session. Able to have multiple presentations linked to each other and be able to rearrange them from different computer.

Hey guys, creator of the site here, I'd love to hear the community's thoughts on my first serious MVP effort!

Error in Firefox Nightly 22.0a1 (2013-03-21) for me, and it's repeatable: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/UhtZcpw.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/UhtZcpw.png</a><p>In both Firefox and Chrome the QR code on the homepage only appears after a refresh or two.<p>Overall really nicely done, though the two reasons I wouldn't use it personally are 1.) Confidentiality (most decks I would ever want to present I can't upload to some random MVP site) 2.) Branding (I'd want to be able to white label, or self-host).

I scanned the QR code and then pressed next/back a few times and then it said connected on the screen. Then I wasn't sure where the demo was even though it said to try it out. I eventually saw the little link at the bottom right hand side and clicked on it. Then it presented the slides but kept going automatically very sporadically and nothing I did stopped or moved anything.<p>You might want to give a better walkthrough and explanation. :) Really cool though if it is solid. You have to be careful with slide control because this is LIVE and people want things that are absolutely solid and going to work 99.99% of the time. One mishap and you've probably lost that customer if it was in a live setting.

Great idea and nice execution. The demo works great and there's definitely a wow-moment.<p>It's a bit unfortunate that uploading a keynote-presentation threw an error ( didn't say what the problem was, just that the presentation couldn't be converted ) and uploading a ppt messed up the charts. So, maybe it would be wiser to simply just accept pdf-documents and rely on users to do the conversion – it's a complicated task, versions change all the time and mastering pdf alone is maybe enough work for a mvp. just my two cents.<p>but you definitely got a user.

pretty cool, could be very handy for sales presentations but its unusual to be lucky enough to get access to a network of a company you are pitching to.

If I can make a suggestion, build an official iphone and android app for this, and charge 99 cents.<p>You can then add the ability to do live annotations to presentations from the phone/tablet and keep that exclusive to the app.<p>This whole app is brilliant, I hope it really takes off for you and you make a metric fuck-ton of money out of it. Superb idea.

This looks really cool, fantastic idea!<p>Unfortunately the site doesn't work with IE on Windows Phone 8. Can't click either of the green buttons seen in this screen shot- <a href="http://sdrv.ms/X4gN6" rel="nofollow">http://sdrv.ms/X4gN6</a> (possible a bootstrap issue).<p>Hopefully I can snag my wife's droid tomorrow and give it a whirl!

One of the things preventing me from using this all the time is that I can't click through the presentation manually on my computer. At least if the internet connection failed, I could have that as a backup plan and continue with any presentations.

I'm not sure it's good enough if it doesn't say, "Welcome Mr. Stark" when I connect...

Overall, very slick. I'd recommend also being able to upload a presentation from the phone (by selecting it from gmail, dropbox, etc) so I could do the majority of the setup on my phone and minimal on the presenting computer.

This is pretty cool, I like just being able to scan a qr code and start presenting. However, I just finished creating a presentation using Reveal.JS, it would be awesome if I could upload my reveal markup and use that.

It seems like there a ton of these clever "control a webpage with your phone's browser" demos that they probably deserve their own shorthand name.<p>Is there already a name to shorthand this whole process/idea? "screen pairing"?

A friend of mine and I coded the same thing a while back. There are many draw-backs like the aforementioned network reliability.<p>Still it was pretty fun to see the slides move when we moved a finger across the phone's screen.

Nice thinking with the QR-code pairing, it's really easy to get started with.<p>I will give it a spin and see how it differs from <a href="http://presefy.com" rel="nofollow">http://presefy.com</a> - which I'm currently using.

This is old news. <a href="http://presefy.com" rel="nofollow">http://presefy.com</a> does this even easier. No need to use QR-codes. So setting up is faster and easier.

When I connect with my phone, I still have to log in?<p>Why can't you embed a token in the QR code? I use huge pads for passwords and typing them in on my phone is traumatic and awful.

It doesn't seem to work in Firefox for Android. I scan the QR code and the page says I'm connected but when I click "Try Uslide Demo" nothing happens.

Can I open up a uslide-controlled presentation on another browser and see the slide changes? That would be mega-handy for our remote presentations.

Reminds me of Photobeamer (<a href="https://photobeamer.com" rel="nofollow">https://photobeamer.com</a>) which is equally cool!

I can't get this to work? I scanned the code but the page I get doesn't work on my phone.<p>I am using Firefox 22 on PC, Firefox browser on phone.

This is actually pretty neat and I would def. use it. One note, i'd add on the linked page is more/better/visual explanation.

Looks awesome from the demo,but I can't sign up because you are classifying my perfectly valid .me email as invalid address.

You can achieve the same on <a href="http://preso.ly" rel="nofollow">http://preso.ly</a> using your SlideShare account ;)

Nice, but it should be possible to progress the slideshow with the mouse/keyboard if the phone connection dies.

Absolutely love it. +1 for the ability to continue with the keyboard should the network melt down.

Its like Nokia's photobeamer.

This is brilliant.

do people make slides on their phone?

Love it. I liked that the intro text was minimal, and I just started seeing slides flip on screen. Unexpected!