Great — here’s a pitch deck skeleton built directly from your transcript themes and the memo. Each slide has the core idea + bullets you could expand with visuals later:
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Pitch Deck Skeleton: The World’s Best List App
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- Title Slide • App name / tagline (e.g. “Lists, but alive.”) • Logo or simple visual (napkin → digital list)
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- Problem • Ideas come fast but vanish quickly. • Existing tools are either: • Too heavy (Notion, Roam, Logseq) → sterile, overbuilt. • Too shallow (Apple Notes, Keep) → not engaging or flexible. • Too fragmented (work vs personal, desktop vs mobile). • Capturing is easy, but recalling, remixing, and sharing are broken.
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- Insight • Lists are fundamental to how humans think: groceries, to-dos, ideas, even atoms in chemistry. • Making lists calms chaos, offloads stress, and creates order. • A napkin sketch can be as valuable as a billion-dollar idea. • The market is crowded with productivity tools, but none fully capture the napkin-to-network experience.
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- Solution (The App) • Capture frictionlessly: one tap to record thoughts (voice, text, image). • Recall beautifully: interface that makes you want to return. • Remix easily: clip, revise, and combine ideas. • Share natively: assign thoughts to groups; ideas evolve collectively. • Minimal + engaging: less intimidating than blank canvases, more dynamic than static notes.
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- Product Vision • Starts as a list app → evolves into: • Groups & Networks: not just personal notes, but communities. • Remixes & Revisions: ideas grow collaboratively. • Custom Views: lists visualized in unique, engaging ways. • Feels inevitable: the app you didn’t know you needed, but won’t want to live without.
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- Market Opportunity • $X billion productivity software market. • Target early adopters: • Founders, creatives, intellectuals. • Teams seeking lightweight collaboration. • Everyday users wanting better capture + recall. • White space: “too messy for Notion, too important for Notes.”
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- Competitive Landscape • Notion / Roam / Logseq: powerful, but too heavy and structured. • Apple Notes / Google Keep: easy, but shallow and unengaging. • Read-it-later apps (Pocket, Readwise): good at capture, weak at networks. • Our edge: frictionless capture + engaging recall + group dynamics.
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- Network Effect & Community • Collectors + Designers = ecosystem: • Collectors: raw data, thoughts, notes. • Designers: remix, visualize, repurpose (like Robinhood-style views for stock data). • Governance: simple invite-tree moderation (like Lobste.rs). • Flywheel: more content → more remixes → more value → more users.
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- Business Model • Freemium: free for individuals, premium for groups. • Marketplaces: designers monetize visualizations & views. • Revenue sharing: contributors paid for remixable content. • Payments infra: plug-and-play (e.g. Lemon Squeezy).
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- Why Now • Remote + hybrid work has normalized lightweight, collaborative tools. • AI makes capture → editing → publishing seamless. • Young professionals crave tools that feel natural, playful, not corporate. • Productivity fatigue → demand for simpler, engaging tools.
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- Roadmap • MVP: one-button capture, basic lists, group sharing. • Phase 2: AI editing, remixes, network moderation. • Phase 3: community marketplace for data + visualizations. • Future: “search engine for your life.”
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- Team • [Your name, relevant experience] • Highlight design + engineering chops, background in shipping apps.
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- Ask • Funding amount (if pitching VC). • What it will unlock (MVP launch, team growth, early adoption).
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- Closing Slide • Tagline again (“Lists, but alive.”). • Vision statement: “Capture thoughts as easily as breathing. Grow them into something bigger.”
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Would you like me to write out a mock investor-style script that you (or someone else) could say while presenting this deck? It would make the flow more persuasive in spoken form.