A quick provocation

AI can do almost
anything now.
We still present like
it's 2005.

You stand up, talk over a static PDF, and the second you finish, the room's gone. Everyone who leaned in, nodded, wanted more — vanished. You never even knew who was there.

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What it is
What this is

A tiny presenter app that runs off your own slides.

They answer on their phones

Drop a question mid-talk. Answers come back from the actual people in the room, tied to real names.

You read the room live

A second screen shows the tallies filling in as they tap. You watch the mood shift while you're still talking.

Everyone becomes a lead

To answer, they registered. So the whole room lands in a table you can export the moment you step off.

Instead of Slido Mentimeter Kahoot badge scanners

Same jobs those do — audience polls, lead capture — except it's yours, in one thing, running off your slides.

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Your turn
Don't take my word for it

For the next minute,
you're in my audience.

Open the companion on your phone, or right here in a tab. Register, run the checkpoints, tell me what you actually think. I'll show you the other side in a second.

Open the companion → tools.nicholaschong.xyz/presenter-kit/index.html
Scan to join the companion
QR → the companion
real code dropped in at deploy
Scan to join, or use the link.
tools.nicholaschong.xyz/presenter-kit/index.html
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The other side
Welcome back

Here's what I could
see the whole time.

This is the presenter view — the room map I read live while you were tapping. Your answer's in there now, sitting next to everyone else who's tried it.

And here's the quiet part: to answer, you registered. So you — and everyone who showed up — just became a lead.

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The two-way part
It goes both ways

Ask something.
Watch it land — live.

On your phone, tap Ask a question and send it. It drops straight onto this deck — hit Questions from the room (bottom-left) to see everything the room's asked, with names.

Questions from the room7
“How's this different from just using Slido?”
asked by Priya · just now

No hands up, no mic passed around — every question captured, while you keep talking.

The two-way part05 / 10
Not a form at the end
One at a time, not all at once

Those checkpoints? They're woven through the whole talk.

You just answered four in a row because this is a six-minute demo. On a real talk, I open them one at a time, whenever I get there — not a survey dumped at the end.

Early
Checkpoint 1
Mid-talk
Checkpoint 2
Near the close
Checkpoint 3

Their phones just sit there and wait — a checkpoint unlocks the second I open it from the room map, right when it's relevant.

Not a form at the end06 / 10
Try it right now
No, really — try it

These are your slides.
Press E to edit them.

Right now, on this exact screen. Hit E, or hover the top-left corner — the text on this slide turns editable. Change a word, move to the next slide, it's still there.

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Press E or click the pencil, top-left.

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Click any text on a slide. It's a normal text cursor now.

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Ctrl/Cmd+S saves it and downloads your edited deck.

It's your deck, so it should feel like your deck — not a hosted thing you have to ask someone to change.

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Take it with you
It's yours, not rented

Take the template.
Run your own.

Copy the prompt below into Claude Code. It reads the template, asks you a few questions, and builds your version — Supabase, checkpoints, slides, and a live link — while you watch.

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Open Claude Code on Opus
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Paste this ↓
Copy this into Claude Code

Set me up with my own version of this — a talk that turns my audience into captured leads. Use the template at github.com/ncih/deck-template: clone it, then set yourself up end to end — install the frontend-slides skill (git clone https://github.com/zarazhangrui/frontend-slides into ~/.claude/skills/) and the presenter-kit skill that ships in the template, create my free Supabase, write my checkpoint questions, build my slide deck, and deploy it to my own GitHub Pages. I'm non-technical, so explain each step simply and do the technical parts for me. When it's live, show me how to run /presenter-kit to spin up my next talk.

Next time it's one command — the setup installs a /presenter-kit skill you run to build your next talk. Rather do it by hand? →
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Before you go
More from Nicholas

More where this came from.

Presenter Kit is one of the free tools I build and share in the open. They all live on one page — take whatever's useful.

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Edit mode — click text to edit · Ctrl/Cmd+S to save · Press Esc when done