Ask HN: How do you handle recurring presentations?
1 tomskasparov 1 8/17/2025, 1:04:00 PM
I hate making slides. It just feels like a big waste of time to me.
How do you handle recurring presentations without burning days on slides?
What’s your workflow (cadence, owner, format/tools, time, biggest pain)?
At small sizes (say 1–30 people), you can usually get away with emails + a Notion doc (maybe a Loom) for most recurring presentations. Past a certain point, though, you can’t escape repeatable decks: more stakeholders (board, sales, hiring), more cross-functional updates, and a need for skimmable, shareable artifacts with consistent numbers and branding.
Curious about your breaking point:
- Headcount when email/Notion stopped being enough
- What replaced it (slides, memo, dashboard) and why
- Who owns it now (founder, BizOps/FP&A, PMM, team lead)
- Biggest pain that forced the change (consistency, approvals, last-minute edits)
Context varies (remote, regulated, multi-site), so I’d love specific thresholds and examples.