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Paste by FiftyThree — Show your work. Paste is a new presentation tool for Slack.
Paste is a new kind of presentation tool built for Slack. With Paste, teams can tell the rich story of their work, fast. Paste is made to tell great stories. Drop or paste anything you’d like to share—images, videos, links, pdf, text—and our automated layout engine instantly makes great slides for you.
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Andreas Duess
Looks great, but.....what is it?
Is it google slides without the presentation features? Is it mural.ly without the cooperation features? Is it one of the many team-and-work-review solutions but without the commenting features? Wireframing? Design? I am genuinely confused. It looks great, but what the heck does it do that other products don't?
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@andreasduess Paste is visual collaboration for Slack. It's for teams to gather, organize, and share their work. We use it for everything from design reviews, feature discussions, team meetings, even board presentations. We think of Slack as a room where people talk, Paste is the table with the artifacts. It's probably the most first productivity app built with messaging in mind and deeply integrates with Slack comments, threads, directories, mentions, and channels.
@georgpetschnigg agreed with @andreasduess. It's a really great tool, guys! By the way, I'm developing presentation tool about three years, but even me don't get the point from these gifs also. And it takes some time to figure out in product itself how it works and what for.
Any reason why it isn't a standalone app? I tried it and it made my slides look so nice right away, but I'm worried about the privacy. It says you have access to all public messages on Slack. For my company, we are very careful about Slack integrations and I don't think our admins will approve something that has access to all our company messages.
@jadlimcaco good question. Paste makes it easy for teams to gather, organize, and share their work and that fits alongside a companies communication. So we designed Paste to deeply integrate with Slack so that you don't have to watch yet another inbox, manage a new set of permissions, groups, or file/folder structure. For one off / individual work email would have been fine, but it did not scale to a team with multiple projects. That said, we take privacy seriously and we need to think through the transition from files/folders/permission/emails towards a messaging centered workflow. Paste is the first example of major productivity tool built with messaging in mind.
The sign-up/create-an-account on-boarding flow is sweeet 💙, what made you forgo password authentication?
@tabansi the early release of Paste has email log in, we avoided creating another password and rely on the security of people's email accounts. That said, Paste is designed for messaging products like Slack. You need to log in with Slack to get access to all the collaboration features.
DOPE. BUT WE STILL NEED CROSS DEVICE SYNC ON PAPER COME ON! need to be able to access my iphone files on ipad and vice versa. whys that so hard?
@jetboyparker thanks! We here you on sync for Paper, long story why it's taking so long, check back with us in the summer.
Looks nice, but one thing that's vital for presenting any web/app mockups is the ability to easily view it at the correct size. Seeing zoomed out or way to zoomed in screens only works for some types of content.
**UPDATE 04-18-17** We just went live in the Slack App Directory. https://slack.com/apps/A3WNR7LHW...
Paste adds visual collaboration to Slack. We built it to make sharing work easy. In our mind Slack is like a room with chairs and talking people, Paste provides a table for artifacts and work products. At FiftyThree we use it for our walk-throughs, all-hands, board presentations, feature reviews, hackweek setups, anything that requires the team to gather around ideas and a story.
Paste is the first productivity tool built with messaging in mind. It uses Slack as a way to organize work around a conversation. Decks can be organized into channels to go along with the discussion.
Threaded comments are real-time and synced between Slack and Paste. Respond from Slack, reply in Paste. Use all the niceties like join/leave and mentions. Assign slides to your team if you need a hand.
Anything shared is organized in decks. They are ideal for working in parallel. The grid gives you an overview at all times. You don't have to make slides though. Paste does a bunch of auto-formating for you. Just paste. Try pasting articles, URL, videos, Sketch files, PDF, images, PSD, AI files, Google docs/sheets, NY Times articles you name it.
Right now the experience is optimized for desktop, our mobile app and Paper integration should follow in a bit.
Thanks for letting us know what you think!
@georgpetschnigg I love using paste for our Customer Account Reviews! I'm not quite understanding how to use it on slack though. Definitely want to be able to share and work on a paste presentation with the team in slack, but downloaded the app and just not quite sure how to do anything on slack. I paste it, and there is just a link and if you click it opens to another browser. What can I do with it in slack?
Your price and pricing model make it impossible for me to promote this product in the company. Because of this new thing, I can't afford to let the company pay for me before proving its value, and I can't afford to pay for that much.
Your price will cause the product to spread.
Pros:This is a good product, not only can be used to make PPT, but also can be used for multi-person collaborative creativity.
Cons:But you chose an unreasonable price.The price is crazy.
It's too expensive for me to promote this product in the company.
@timraiter right now Paste works best with Slack. You need a Slack team to use it, and sign in with Slack at paste.fiftythree.com
@georgpetschnigg of course I tried to sign in with slack( Do you have support email? I don't want to spam here.
I’ve used Paste for over a year now and it is a very valuable tool to present and talk through design findings with my team, clients and stakeholders. I value the streamlined capabilities as an end user and UXUI Designer, and the clean and professional appeal as a presenter/viewer.
As a UX/UI Designer, using Paste to communicate my design work fits seamlessly with the rest of my process. Being able to hand-off a link to a slidedeck and receive comments in it, means I can continue to update the content without having to resend decks. Also, being able to track and receive comments in Paste allows me to more easily manage and track conversations more closely to the related content (instead of managing feedback over a disjointed email chain).
And possibly most importantly, with Paste I can more easily compile my designs into an almost-already-designed slidedeck allowing me to better focus on the content I put into the slides, and without the pressure of feeling obligated to spend extra effort designing said slides.
Lastly, I found through my experience in using Paste that the company is committed to improving Paste to better suit their end-users’ needs. Having answered a quick short survey, I was then asked to participate in an interview - so I know they were actively committed to gathering insights from end-users. Separately, I asked about lacking functionality and received a prompt reply and update when that functionality had been added. And from that I know they were actively working on improvements (at least in early 2019).
I recommend giving Paste a try as a presentation and sharing tool!
@applotse thank you! Have you tried Paste with Slack? Paste is visual collaboration for Slack. It's for teams to gather, organize, and share their work. We use it for everything from design reviews, feature discussions, team meetings, even board presentations. It's deeply integrated with Slack comments, threads, directories, mentions, and channels.
I love the design! Beautiful pastel colors make the whole experience very relaxing.
Love the product! Beautifully designed, super simple. Levels-up Slack's usefulness 10x easily.
