From ReadMe to MakeSliDev v0.1

August 6, 2025

TL;DR

I found out a great web app that edits markdown in live time and wanted to combine it with SliDev for PPT Generation.

Intro

I was bikeshedding and found out this great project:

MPL2 | An Awesome ReadME Generator To Jumpstart Your Projects!

For the ones who mind their time,

Shaan is also the dev behind this OSS Pomodoro Timer: https://github.com/ShaanCoding/Pomodoro-Timer

Isnt it great?

MakeReadMe UI

It can edit markdown and see the result live!

No CMS, nor headless CMS.

Ive been looking for such a thing for long time:

From Readme to SliDev

It’s all about taking makereadme features.

I mean, letting windsurf do so

Because the ppt templates should not be our focus anymore.

But the content quality!

The original features you have them in main:

git clone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/makeslidev
make setup
make dev

There you go, the original makeread.me project running locally:

I changed the img to https://cyclingthere.pages.dev/_astro/PXL_20241008_144149173.Cj1pqXWc_1oH9Mo.webp

local markdown live edits

See the UI at: http://localhost:3000/

And the swagger API: http://localhost:8080/

But the juice starts at the branch makeslidev:

git branch -a

Similar to AI project docs generation…

I could not resist but to try these IDE’s (Windsurf etc) and their context awareness to generate SliDev PPTs.

And it worked.

So in a way a codex + md editor + slidev should be possible .

Ill come back to SliDev + CMS on a future post.

Expect a v0.2 coming with a simpler way of editing a SliDev PPT!

I got to know along the way about these live markdown editors, that in theory can be plugged into a flask web app.

So as per the learnings of:

This can be done muuuch simpler