MagicSlides · AI presentation maker
Make each app do exactly one thing
Founder credits it for clear selling; no numbers
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What they did
Each app is single-purpose ('this app does this'): talk to a YouTube video, blur sensitive info in one click, turn a document into slides. Reasoning: with many features neither the founder nor the customer knows what is being sold; people come for one thing, and a starter can't build everything.
- Stage
- Pre-launch (idea)
“Another one of that is all of them are not like multiple feature. I'm very clear that this app does this. The point is that when you add too many features, you don't even know yourself what you're selling.”
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