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Gamma - Write like a doc, present like a deck

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Gamma is an alternative to slide decks - a fast, simple way to share and present your work. Create engaging presentations, memos, briefs, and docs that are easy to discuss live or share async. All in your browser, nothing to download or install.

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Grant Lee
Hey Product Hunt šŸ‘‹ Thanks for hunting us Hiten šŸ™ I'm Grant, one of the co-founders of Gamma. Super excited to share what we've been working on šŸ‘‡ Every year, half a billion people create presentations in Google Slides and Powerpoint. Slides have been the language of business communication for more than 30 years. While the rest of the productivity suite has seen notable upgrades over the years, slides as a format have remained generally unchanged: their dimensions are fixed (a nod to the 35mm days), they're built for linear, one-way presentations, and designing them is still painful. This past year, we've been working on a completely new approach to presentations and decks in private beta. While we're still super early, we're excited to open things up today, and wanted the PH community to be among the first to try out the product. Free to use. No trial period. Just create your account and start building. Here's what you can expect from Gamma: šŸŽļø It's fast: Spend less time aligning boxes and formatting things to fit on a slide. Replace strenuous PowerPoint flows with the ease and joy of building a Notion doc. šŸ‘Œ It's simple: Stop wasting time making your deck look nice. One-click themes in Gamma let you restyle your deck without having to rework it each time. āš” It's interactive: Most slide decks today feel flat. Gamma offers more multimedia support and a set of new primitives to help you increase engagement, both live and async. šŸ¤ It's collaborative: Whether you're building a deck on your own or jamming with your entire team, we want your experience to feel smooth. āœØ And a ton more: There are so many other features we can't wait for you try out, including Analytics to understand engagement, Channels to organize your team's work, and Templates to get you started right away. As first time founders, it's a dream come true to launch on Product Hunt. We look forward to your feedback and sincerely appreciate the support!
Ozgur Dogan Ugurlu
@gslee congrats guys! Even though I met Gamma when it was really a baby, I can't bring myself to use another tool for presentation anymore.
Barry Huang
Congrats on the launch @gslee ! And @harrison_riehle not only PowerPoint from the 90's -- PPT itself was just a digitization of overhead projector & transparency tech that's been prevalent since post-WW2!
Nicole Lundblad
@gslee congrats! it's been so exciting to see how you guys have shaken up presentation creation and delivery
Grant Lee
@vbshah1979 Thanks Vishal! Excited to get your feedback.
James Fox
Hey everyone šŸ‘‹ I'm James, one of the co-founders. Grant, Jon, and I go way back - the three of us met at Optimizely, where we worked together for over 5 years. It's an awesome feeling to finally be launching on Product Hunt today! We love getting feedback, so please don't hesitate to reach out šŸ˜€ Let us know what your favorite features are (or what you'd love to see added) in the comments šŸ‘‡
Jon Noronha
@jamis0n @hanspagel thank you for all the support Hans!
Justina
@jamis0n congrats on the launch and on creating the best presentation i've ever seen about the greatest shooter of all time
Jessica Chong
@jamis0n @justinaforever For anyone wondering what @justinaforever is referring to, James made a Gamma deck about Steph Curry for our weekly Gammarama! We "eat our own dogfood" / "drink our own champagne" here; every week someone makes a deck and presents on it. Topics have been as varied as the History of the McDonald's McRib, UFOs, woodworking, and tattoos. You can check out James' celebration of Steph Curry here! https://gamma.app/public/Steph-C... !!
James Fox
@justinaforever Thank you! I hear you might even be a bigger Warriors fan than me! I'll make sure to consult with you for the 2022 end of season update to my deck šŸ† šŸ’
James Fox
@hanspagel Thanks so much Hans! We wouldn't be here without the amazing work you did with Tiptap and Hocuspocus! Cheers šŸ»
Jon Noronha
Hi everyone, I'm Jon, one of the co-founders. It's great to be here today! We've been hard at work on this for over a year and I'm so psyched to finally be releasing. We hope you love it and can't wait to hear your feedback. Please ask us anything, we'll be here for the next 24 hours. And one more thing - everyone who signs up today will get branded swag featuring our mascot Sal until supplies run out ā°
Zaharo Tsekouras
@jon_noronha Love this, and congrats on the launch!!! QQ: In present mode, can the toolbar be toggled off?
Brian Cahak
@jon_noronha - congrats on the launch! Awesome to see your journey progress to this next stage. Love the concept. PPTX is long overdue for disruption.
Jon Noronha
@zaharoula not yet, but thanks for the suggestion, we will be looking into this
Jon Noronha
@atx95 thanks for the support Brian! Hope all's well with you
Q
@jon_noronha Hi Jon! Congrats on your product launch. I am an investor from a venture capital firm with over $4 billion under management. I am super interested in your product! Would you like to share your thoughts on your product and fundraising plan with me? I would be very happy to arrange a call with you! Feel free to contact me qwang@dcm.com
Dan Siroker
Congrats on the launch! Great team!
Julie Barwick
@dsiroker Thanks for the support!
Ali Abbas Rizvi
@dsiroker thank you for all the support !
James Fox
@dsiroker Thanks so much Dan! This team wouldn't be where we are today without you šŸ¤—
Zach Leach
@dsiroker Thanks, Dan. Appreciate all your support and advice you've given us throughout this journey.
Burak Kantarcı
Oh wow! @boroskoyo What do you say? Shall we share our weekly updates using Gamma next week?
Grant Lee
@kantarci @ismailegilmez4 Thanks, let us know what you think, we're excited to get your feedback!
Grant Lee
@boroskoyo @kantarci Please be sure to check out our templates, we have some great ones for update decks.
Jennifer Chong
My team has been using Gamma for organizing ideas and preparing for client presentations. There is SUCH a need for this! Google Presentations take so much work to make look polished and presentable - and they don't look good on mobile. I didn't know I needed Gamma until I knew I needed Gamma!
Zach Leach
@jennifer_chong Thank you so much for your kind words! We're really happy to hear that Gamma has been helping your team out. We designed it specifically to make it easy to create beautiful presentations that look great on *any* device. Big shout out to our designers @nikpayne and @alisonbemis too
James Fox
@jennifer_chong What a quote in "I didn't know I needed Gamma until I knew I needed Gamma!"! Thanks so much for your support šŸ˜Ž
charles lee
Been lucky enough to use Gamma for a few months, and I find it pretty pleasant to use. I don't see anyone comparing it to Tome yet, so here's my $0.02: they're very similar, but Gamma is much farther along in development - many more block types and you can actually move them around and position them in a very intuitive Notion-y way. I've used a lot of tools in this space now that I think about it, thanks to Product Hunt. Gamma definitely has carved out a definite niche in my workflow. Today I mostly use beautiful.ai for large meetings (like company all-hands) or pitch decks, Notion for detailed documentation, and Gamma for stuff in between (e.g. smaller team meetings, quarterly planning, and so on).
Grant Lee
@chug2k Thanks for sharing that additional context, super helpful!
Julie Barwick
@chug2k Thanks for this breakdown, and glad you're enjoying Gamma!
Huey Kwik
Gamma is such a delight to use. I've used lots of personal knowledge management tools, but Gamma has the best flow from writing -> presenting.
Grant Lee
@huey_kwik Thanks so much for the feedback!
Zach Leach
@huey_kwik Thanks Huey - And I want to give a shout out to our amazing designers @nikpayne @alisonbemis for brining the product delight :)
Julie Barwick
@huey_kwik Love to hear this, thanks for sharing!
John Witt
Stoked about this news! Leo Da Vinci said it best: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Even in just my early use, Gamma is already helping our team get systematic simplicity in our comms. It cuts through a noisy, chaotic market, and it's actually making a big difference (in sales use-cases, customer success use-cases, internal all-hands use-cases, etc). Eg. I've increased engagement in my sales collateral by over 86% since testing out Gamma as a tool for delivering info to warm prospects in a simple way (cool analytics feature is showing me improvement over time). Also, we've closed more enterprise deals in the last 2 months than in the previous 6 months combined...so there's that. (and with shorter sales cycles - sub 1.5 months). Can't wait to see where the product goes from here!
Ali Abbas Rizvi
@jtothewitt awesome !! so good to hear that.
Grant Lee
@jtothewitt Thanks for sharing those stats and congrats on all the deal momentum! So glad we can play a small role in helping you guys close new business.
James Fox
@jtothewitt Thanks so much for the feedback John! Very excited to hear that you've been getting value out of the product in its early days. Cant wait to make it even better for your use case šŸ˜Š
flo merian
Launching soon!
Happy to see you on the front page today! Congrats on the launch, ?makers šŸ™Œ Would love to have your lessons learned and insights on how to leverage Product Hunt. Maybe a Gamma presentation?
Naomi Chao
@fmerian already have something in the works! We've been referring to it as "the cat deck" šŸ˜¼
flo merian
Launching soon!
@naomichao Yay! Iā€™m eager to read it šŸ˜ø
Sam Seely
Congrats on the release, team Gamma! šŸš€ Product looks incredible
Naomi Chao
@samseely Thanks! What's your favorite feature?
James Fox
@samseely Thanks for the support! And thanks for helping us integrate Knock into our notification flows!
Ali Abbas Rizvi
Thanks @samseely !! Really appreciate all your support so far :-)
Amy Saper
Iā€™ve been lucky enough to use Gamma in beta the last few months and love how easy it is to make my memos and presentations beautiful with very little effort (non-designer here šŸ™‹šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø). The new templates are awesome, Iā€™m excited to move even more types of work over to Gamma. This team has been super thoughtful in incorporating user feedback and executing quickly. Congrats on the launch, @gslee @jon_noronha @jamis0n and team!!
Zach Leach
@gslee @jon_noronha @jamis0n @amy thank you so much for your support and guidance Amy! šŸ˜ƒ
Julie Barwick
@gslee @jon_noronha @jamis0n @amy Thanks so much for the support!
James Fox
@gslee @jon_noronha @amy You've been an amazing partner thus far in our journey Amy! Looking forward to everything thats to come. šŸŽ‰
Morgan Smith
Can honestly say this is one of the best products I've used in years. I'm a power Notion user for both internal & external use and I continue to return to Gamma instead for its ease-of-use and feature set. Brilliant stuff here.
Jon Noronha
@morganjsmith thanks so much for the kind words, that means so much!
Julie Barwick
@morganjsmith Wow, thank you for your support!
James Fox
@morganjsmith Thanks so much for the kind feedback Morgan! Please do keep it coming šŸ¤— We're super excited to build out new features to help make Gamma an even better fit for both internal and external use cases!
Colin Treseler
Congrats on the launch! Gamma is helping me tell better stories with very little effort!
Grant Lee
@ctreseler Thanks for the feedback!
Julie Barwick
@ctreseler Awesome!
Rusya Ermakov
Nice tool, nice UI! One of the most comfortable app for presentation I used. Thank you guys and good luck!
Grant Lee
@rusya_ermakov Thanks so much for the feedback!
Justina
Gamma is really so fun and easy to use. I don't know, it just feels "snappy"! My sister Jess (one of the engineers) has been talking about this project for soooo long, and all the awesome people behind it. I'm happy to see it launch!!!!! I'm inspired by @melissae -- now I want to build my portfolio when I start looking for a job next year :)
Melissae E.
@justinaforever Awesome! Let me know if you need some inspiration ;) I've procrastinated building my portfolio for 3 years haha. But somehow, I managed to build it in Gamma in less than a week. MIND.BLOWN.
James Fox
@melissae @justinaforever Time to slap "snappy" on a bumper sticker :) Thanks for being an early supporter!
Docs are easy to write, and slides are good for presentation. Combining the best part of both is a great idea. šŸ§ 
Jon Noronha
@ming_xu1 well said, thanks Jarod!
James Fox
@ming_xu1 Thanks Jarod! Hope you get a chance to try out the product and let us know what you think šŸ˜Š
Jordan
I have been an early Gamma user and it's changed the way I present. I don't have to worry about fitting my idea to slides or thinking about the best way to present. It just works. If you need a new way to tell your stories, a way where the tool gets out of the way and just lets you work, Gamma is that way. Use it, it's great.
Ali Abbas Rizvi
@inventitorfixit thank you for all the feedback so far. Keep it coming !!
James Fox
@inventitorfixit Your feedback has been invaluable Jordan! Thanks for helping us push the limits šŸš€
Omer Ersin
Congrats on the launch! Looks like a different and useful alternative.
Grant Lee
@omer_ersin Thanks, excited for you to try it out.
Adam Avramescu
Congrats on the launch! As a customer education professional and beta tester, I see the potential for a product like Gamma to make it infinitely easier to communicate complex ideas in simple ways. Looking forward to seeing where you go from here!
Grant Lee
@adam_avramescu1 Thank you, really appreciate all the input and suggestions along the way!
James Fox
@adam_avramescu1 Thanks for the support Adam! I'm looking forward to seeing what kinda Gammas you come up with šŸ˜ƒ