[verdict][generated prompt][source: gamma.app]
Can I vibecode Gamma?
// buildable in a weekend, but real gaps stay open
An AI slide generator is buildable, but Gamma's strength is layouts, editing model, exports, hosting, analytics, and shareable deck/site UX.
confidence: medium
what it is: AI presentation and document builder for decks, docs, and sites
Buildability index · an editorial game
- Price 12 $/month · per seat weight: plus 2
- Time weekend weight: plus 2
- Category presentations no weight
- Moat execution quality · content and rights weight: minus 3
- Confidence medium weight: zero
- What you lose 7 items weight: minus 3
- Site gamma.app (si apre in una nuova scheda) no weight
The moat outweighs the price: rebuilding this is a project, not an evening.
Gioco editoriale: il verdetto dice se un agente può, l’indice se conviene.
What you build
Prompt an LLM for outline, generate slide/cards JSON, render with templates, export PDF/PPTX, and host a share page.
what you need
- LLM API
- slide renderer
- template system
- export pipeline
- hosted app
- optional image API
A strong modern yes/kinda: a viral category with open-source and API primitives.
The prompt
A weekend with a coding agent. The gaps that stay are right below, under “what you lose”.
Build me an AI slide-deck generator to replace Gamma. Requirements:
- A Node CLI around Slidev. `deck new "<topic>"` asks an LLM (key in .env) for
an outline, then slide-by-slide content as JSON: title, bullets, speaker
notes, layout name.
- Render that JSON to a Slidev slides.md; `deck preview` runs the Slidev dev
server, `deck export` writes PDF and PPTX.
- Five layouts: title, bullets, two-column, big-quote, image-right. Images are
optional via an image API key in .env; skip them cleanly when absent.
- One theme file for fonts and colors so every deck matches without redesign.
- `deck redo <n>` regenerates a single slide by number and leaves the rest
untouched.
- Decks are files in ./decks/<slug>/ (slides.md plus assets), kept in git and
hand-editable after generation. No database.
- No accounts, no telemetry; the only network calls are the LLM and optional
image API.
- Out of scope: a web editor, share links with analytics, collaboration.
slides.md in my editor is the editor.
- README: keys, export commands, and how to add a layout.Prompt generated from the data on this page, not reviewed by hand yet. In English on purpose — it is the language coding agents work best in.
What you lose
- polished editor
- responsive card model
- exports
- analytics
- custom domains
- template quality
- collaboration
Why people still pay
They pay because the output looks acceptable without wrestling with PowerPoint.
moat: Execution quality Content and rights what a moat is
editor/templates/hosting
Who has already built it
Starting from here is still vibecoding: the prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.
- Slidev (opens in a new tab) — Open-source Markdown/HTML slide deck generator; good foundation for a developer-oriented c (alive)
What it costs in a year
12 $/mese 144 $/anno
Listino 12 $ al mese a persona su Gamma. L’anno è dodici mesi pieni, senza sconti annuali.
Do you agree?
The vote balance
Ancora nessun voto: il tuo è il primo.
Nessun voto ancora — il primo pesa.
