Slides

Slides is a web-based presentation tool that lets anyone create, share, and present decks from a browser ^S1. It serves individuals, teams, and developers who need polished presentations with AI assistance and flexible delivery ^{S94 S162}. Its practical value lies in combining an intuitive editor with AI features, collaboration, and multiple export options like HTML, PDF, and PPTX ^S13.

• Identity: Slides is a web-based presentation platform founded in 2013 by Hakim El Hattab and Owen Bossola ^S1.
• Core purpose: It solves the problem of creating, sharing, and presenting beautiful decks without desktop software ^S1.
• Intended users: Individuals, teams, and developers who need to build and deliver presentations ^{S94 S162}.
• Product scope: A single web app with an editor, AI agent, collaboration, and export capabilities ^S13.
• Positioning: Positioned as a professional presentation tool from draft to delivery ^S94.
• Claimed distinction: Claims ease of use with powerful features, including AI integration and reveal.js foundation ^{S13 S162}.

Create, share, and present exceptional decks. Design by hand or with AI, refine with your team, and present anywhere. slides.com: an estimated 388,429 total monthly visits and about 454,481 monthly organic visits across 3,824 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 15 pages and measured a technical health score of 96/100.

• Total traffic (modeled): 388,429 monthly visits across all channels.
• Organic search traffic (estimated): 454,481 monthly visits from search.
• Strongest sampled ranking: the slides at position 1.
• Leading page in the collected evidence: https://slides.com/.
• Closest measured organic competitor: youtube.com, appearing 3 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
• Technical crawl: 15 pages, health score 96/100.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Company identity and positioning

Total website traffic

Domain identity

Website capture

Top organic keywords

Independent Google result page

Query: the slides

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Prioritized website intelligence pages

Features

Pricing and plans

Integrations and supported platforms

Product and company updates

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

This analysis created the first position baseline at 2026-10-21T03:58:43.378Z. Movement appears after the next fresh analysis using the same location and language.

Sampled competitors

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

Backlink comparison profile

• Domain rating: 82/100
• Backlinks: 7,095,306
• Referring domains: 35,091
• Dofollow backlinks: 76.0%
• Dofollow referring domains: 56.0%

Collection decision

The Scout search index remains intentionally excluded from automatic Scout analysis. This Scout traffic model profile costs 5 credits (0.5 cents) and is included in the first comparison run so its usefulness can be judged before the recurring collection is finalized.

AI-assistant referral traffic

• Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.8%

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

• customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Independent reviews

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

• Is it possible to buy a self-hosting slides.com editor licence? · hakimel/reveal.js · Discussion #3508 · GitHub — I have been using slides.com and reveal.js for the last 3 years. It is fantastic! I would like to promote its use to create internal presentations within the large organization for which I work. However, the issue is that cloud services are prohibited for most presentation material, precluding using the slides.com editor. I would like to know if it is possible to purchase a licence to self-host a slides.com editor internally inside the organization. (I understand I can use reveal.js offline, or
• On the search for the best decent presentation making software — + (5/5) takes some npm magin, but you can run it on frigging toaster. (g) Slides.com (3.5/5): + (4/5) it basically uses the proprietary version of the reveal.js as a backend, and adds UI (a bit clumsy to my taste, but works ok); − (2/5) same as above, but adding videos is paywalled; + (5/5) there is a full latex support out of the box; + (3/5) web-based, but you’ll need an account, and lots of perks are paywalled. (h) Figma (3.3/5):
• Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework / Hacker News — . A few years later I also launched a visual editing environment for reveal.js called Slides (slides.com). It has some pretty unique features targeted at developers, like a built-in CSS editor, access to the HTML source, and stepped line-by-line code
• Asking Here: Open Tools For Collaborative Slide Making and/or Annotating — ’d be remiss if I didn’t mention RevealJS. It’s a Javascript framework which allows for the easy creation of slides using the John Gruber’ ... My personal favourite is Slides.com, a freemium online service from
• Web-Based Presentations: Several Open-Source Options More Flexible Than Traditional Slides - TorchTree — and next-slide preview), Auto-Animate, LaTeX formula rendering, and more. Slide transitions include fade, slide, convex, concave, zoom, and other modes. For those unfamiliar with code, the same author also provides a companion no-code editor, slides.com.

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

Not found on the collected pages: uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

• Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
• Technical health: 96/100
• Critical issues: 0
• Warnings: 9
• Notices: 9

Issues

Crawled pages

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

Modeled acquisition channels

First-party connections

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

The collected pages do not mention specific competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed security certifications, uptime guarantees, and release history. Pricing details for custom plans are not published. Some features like AI credits and storage limits are only available on paid plans.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from slides.com, including the homepage, features, pricing, docs, and about pages. The evidence catalog includes 180 items from static and rendered pages. External proof search was used but no third-party reviews were verified. Limitations: some pages were not fully scraped, and pricing was verified from the pricing page on 2026-10-20.

• Official Websitehttps://slides.com/Verified
• Official Websitehttps://slides.com/aboutVerified
• Official Websitehttps://slides.com/featuresVerified
• Documentationhttps://slides.com/docsVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://slides.com/pricingVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://slides.com/docs/billing-detailsVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://slides.com/docs/team-billingVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://slides.com/docs/categories/account-billingVerified
• Official Websitehttps://slides.com/angiejones/new-java-featuresVerified
• Documentationhttps://slides.com/for-developersVerified
• Documentationhttps://slides.com/bolajiayodeji/effective-oss-docsVerified
• Documentationhttps://slides.com/ceceliamartinez/debugging-react-apps-workshopVerified
• Documentationhttps://slides.com/docs/adding-a-new-slideVerified
• Documentationhttps://slides.com/docs/adding-linksVerified
• Documentationhttps://slides.com/docs/agentVerified
• Review Sitehttps://www.capterra.com/p/154977/Slides/reviews/Verified
• Review Sitehttps://lochie.dev/posts/ill-build-it/Verified
• Documentationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233136SVerified
• Articlehttps://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/discussions/3508Verified
• Articlehttps://programming.dev/post/9517962?scrollToComments=trueVerified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233136Verified
• Articlehttps://connect.oeglobal.org/t/asking-here-open-tools-for-collaborative-slide-making-and-or-annotating/6426Verified
• Documentationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26931412Verified
• Review Sitehttps://paneflow.com/alternatives/slidesVerified
• Documentationhttps://venture-lab.org/2026/best-presentation-tools-2026/Verified
• Articlehttps://torchtree.com/en/post/web-ppt-tools/Verified