What's the step you wish could disappear forever?
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Building a presentation in 2026 shouldn't look like this:
❌ Search for inspiration
❌ Write content
❌ Design slides
❌ Fix formatting
❌ Fix formatting again
❌ Fix formatting one more time
We're working on changing that. launching in few days stay tuned!
What's the step you wish could disappear forever?
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I feel like generating the code is going to be redundant at some point, and the output will just be generated. Like do we really need the hardware at the end, or can we just simulate it by predicting it?
@g023 Good question. Waiting for ppl thoughts on this
For me it's not the slides, it's the reconciling step afterwards. Copying the same info between your store, your email tool, your community and your payments just so they all agree on who bought what and who still has access. It's pure overhead and it breaks every time something changes.
I'd delete that one forever. It's most of why I'm building DukieX, so the customer, the purchase, the access and the support history sit in one place instead of being stitched back together by hand every week. We launch on Product Hunt Wednesday.
@adrian_witaszak Awesome! Good luck
Slides design is the most time consuming portion for me
@roy_kek Ya agree!
I would say biggest thing for me is keeping the slides visually consistent while adding enough variety to keep it engaging.
So perhaps a master slide that defines the main typeface, hierarchy of things and populate the rest of the slides by moving things around.
@perry_f Sounds good! Thank you
Exporting slides is a hassle, especially when aspects of the slide get reformatted weirdly when I'm converting them into different formats
Formatting, without question 😃
It has nothing to do with your actual idea, and eats the most time
As someone who just launched their first product today, this question hits different! Here's my top 3:
🚫 "Create an account to continue" — I built my party game specifically to avoid this. No signup, no download, no friction. The moment you ask for an email before showing value, you lose 50% of your visitors. Let people EXPERIENCE the product first.
🚫 "Please verify your email" — The modern equivalent of "the check is in the mail." It breaks momentum, creates anxiety (did it go to spam?), and adds zero value for the user. If you MUST verify, do it silently in the background after they're already engaged.
🚫 "Choose a plan" before seeing pricing — Nothing kills trust faster than hiding costs behind a wall. Show me what things cost upfront. If your product is good, the price won't scare me away — but the secrecy will.
Honorable mention: CAPTCHAs on login pages. We're training AI to solve them better than humans at this point. At some point we need to admit the emperor has no clothes here.
The common thread? All of these steps exist for THE COMPANY's benefit (data collection, fraud prevention, conversion optimization), not the USER's benefit. The best products are the ones that make the user's journey frictionless — even if it means the company has to work harder on the backend.
What step would YOU kill first if you had a magic wand? ✨