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How to create presentations fast with AI
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Upload your document (Word, PDF, or text file)
Upload your doc file and go to Tools > Canvas
Write in your prompt and press enter
Sample Prompt: Create a presentation based on the uploaded document
Wait a few seconds while Gemini generates your presentation
Once it’s ready, click ‘Export to Slides’ to open and edit your new deck in Google Slides
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Idea of the Week:
Rashid Khasanov’s first startup wrecked him. He lost his savings, maxed out his cards, and ended up deep in debt.
Instead of quitting, he started building small internet tools. One of them turned into Angel Match, a platform that helps founders find and manage investors. It now brings in $37K a month.
Angel Match was born out of Rashid’s own frustration. After struggling to find investors for his first failed app, he realized there wasn’t a good place to discover and organize potential backers. So he built one.
The first version was scrappy. Rashid designed it himself and hired a remote developer to code it using Node.js, Digital Ocean, Figma, Stripe, and Klaviyo. It had bugs everywhere, but it worked well enough to make money.
Collecting accurate investor data turned out to be the hardest part. Over time, he and his small remote team aggregated more than 110,000 angel and VC profiles, then layered in fundraising tools, calculators, and CRM features.
Most of Angel Match’s growth has been organic. Rashid built free tools, posted them on Product Hunt and Reddit, and wrote consistent blog content. Email onboarding, social posts, and referral loops kept traffic steady.
Meta ads helped for a while, though returns weren’t huge. The real breakthrough came when he realized their SEO was broken. Pages kept getting deleted during updates. After hiring an SEO expert, growth took off and traffic began compounding.
A few growth strategies have worked especially well. Programmatic SEO. automatically generating structured pages for investor profiles that drives consistent high-intent traffic.
Free tools act as lead magnets that pull in backlinks and users. Listening to user complaints has directly shaped new features, from CRMs to outreach systems.
The hardest part, Rashid says, wasn’t building. It was not quitting. He also learned to be careful with who he hires. The wrong person can cost years of time and sleep.
He also deliberately chooses unglamorous markets. Database products might be boring, but they’re durable. They don’t get wiped out overnight by new AI releases. And he keeps costs down by hiring remotely
Right now, Rashid is focused on reducing churn, improving onboarding, and refining ads for Angel Match. He’s also running three other SaaS products: Investor Hunt, Journalist Hunt, and Pur Social.
Asked for advice, Rashid keeps it simple. Don’t chase cool ideas, chase painful problems. Build the smallest version that solves something specific. Talk to your users yourself. Learn by doing.
Don’t quit early. Consistency compounds. And you don’t need to code or raise VC money to build something useful.
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