PitchCraft
Type a short brief; PitchCraft drafts a polished, animated pitch deck in 5 minutes — designed for founders and consultants who have no design skills.
Startup founders and consultants who pitch every week but hate losing Saturdays in PowerPoint
- Drop in a one-page brief or messy bullet notes; AI drafts a structured deck (intro, problem, solution, ask) with sensible pacing
- Each slide gets tasteful animations (Bento-style) without touching design settings; brand preset loads your logo and one font
- Export to Google Slides, PowerPoint, or a shareable view-only link with click-through analytics
- Free for the first deck; $19/mo for unlimited decks, team brand presets, and reviewer comments
Bento's 331-point HN debut proves declarative slide tooling resonates, yet most founders still spend weekends hand-building decks in PowerPoint or Keynote.
Multiple 2024-2025 roundup articles list 8-10 dedicated AI pitch deck tools (PitchBob, DeckForge, PitchBae, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, etc.), indicating sustained founder demand for the category.8 AI Pitch Deck Generator Tools Founders Use to Raise ↗10 Best AI Pitch Deck Generators for Startup in 2025 (Free + Paid) ↗
Crowded: Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Pitch, Tome, Canva, SlidesAI, plus niche tools like DeckForge/PitchBob/PitchBae already serve this exact use case; Tome even raised $81.6M before shutting down the product.Tome AI Alternatives for Pitch Decks: What to Use Now ↗AI Presentation Makers Compared: Gamma, Tome, Beautiful.ai, and Pitch ↗
Proven SaaS pricing: Gamma Plus $9/seat/mo, Pro $18/seat/mo; Beautiful.ai Pro $12/mo; shows willingness to pay $10-20/mo, though lower than enterprise tiers.Gamma Pricing for Founders and Consultants (June 2026) ↗Beautiful.ai Pricing and Plans ↗
Pitch decks are a permanent founder/consultant need; AI generation is the durable shift (Bento hit 430 HN points), but category moats are thin and incumbents (Gamma, Beautiful.ai) keep iterating.Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) ↗
Easily built with existing LLM APIs + a slide engine; Bento itself is MIT-licensed open source (reveal.js + GSAP + echarts) and could be forked or wrapped in a few weeks.Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) ↗