Playcode can now build presentations, and it asks one question first: do you want a link you open in the browser and present fullscreen, or a .pptx file you download and edit? They are different things, so it settles that before writing a single slide.
The .pptx is a real one. Actual text boxes you can click and retype, real tables, real speaker notes, charts that carry their own data sheet. It opens in PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides, and Cyrillic, Japanese and emoji come out exactly as they went in. This is not a picture of a slide wrapped in a PowerPoint file, which is what most "export to PPTX" buttons hand you.
The more interesting version is a deck generator. Describe the presentation you rebuild every cycle - the monthly client report, the one-pager per prospect, the board update - and Playcode builds you an app that produces it. Your spreadsheet, database or CRM export goes in; finished decks come out, one or two hundred of them, on brand every time because the brand is written into the code. Next month you press the button instead of rebuilding the deck.
A few things worth knowing:
- Generating files needs a full-stack app, since a static site has nowhere to write one. Playcode will offer to set that up.
- Ask for both and you get both from one source: a browser deck to present from, plus a download. Change a slide once and both update.
- Slides use fonts that exist on the machine opening them, so nothing reflows into a substitute when you send the file to a client.