PitchDeck Genius

AI-powered pitch deck generator with photorealistic images.

🌐 pitchdeckgenius.com

Features

• 🎨 6 professional templates (gradient-fade, split-right, split-left, spotlight, bold-centered, apple-keynote)
• 🖼️ Photorealistic AI-generated images (DALL-E 3)
• 📄 High-quality PDF export
• 🔐 JWT authentication
• 💳 Credit-based usage
• 📱 Mobile-first API

How It Works

1. Describe your startup — One paragraph is all we need
2. AI plans your deck — 12 slides, perfectly structured
3. DALL-E generates images — Photorealistic, brand-colored
4. Download your PDF — Investor-ready in minutes

Quick Start

Local Development

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/NextFrontierBuilds/deck-api.git
cd deck-api

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # or `venv\Scripts\activate` on Windows

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install Playwright browsers
playwright install chromium

# Copy environment variables
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your API keys

# Run
uvicorn app.main:app --reload

Deploy to Railway

1. Create new project on Railway
2. Add PostgreSQL database
3. Connect this repo
4. Set environment variables:
   • OPENAI_API_KEY
   • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
   • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
   • S3_BUCKET
   • SECRET_KEY
5. Deploy!

API Endpoints

Auth

POST /api/auth/register  - Create account
POST /api/auth/login     - Get access token
GET  /api/auth/me        - Get current user

Decks

GET  /api/decks/templates      - List available templates
GET  /api/decks                - List user's decks
POST /api/decks                - Create & generate new deck
GET  /api/decks/{id}           - Get deck status & details
DELETE /api/decks/{id}         - Delete deck

Create a Deck

curl -X POST "https://api.pitchdeckgenius.com/api/decks" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "My Startup Pitch",
    "description": "We are building an AI-powered platform that helps developers create pitch decks in minutes. Our target market is early-stage startups and indie hackers.",
    "template": "gradient-fade",
    "brand_colors": {
      "primary": "#6366F1",
      "background": "#0F0F0F"
    }
  }'

Architecture

Mobile App → FastAPI Backend → OpenAI (DALL-E + GPT) → S3 → PDF

1. One LLM call (GPT-4o-mini) generates slide content + image prompts
2. DALL-E 3 generates photorealistic images
3. Playwright renders HTML templates to PDF
4. S3 stores images and final PDF

Cost per Deck

Component	Cost
GPT-4o-mini (planning)	~$0.02
DALL-E 3 (12 images)	~$0.96
S3 storage	~$0.01
Total	~$1.00

Tech Stack

• FastAPI - API framework
• PostgreSQL - Database
• OpenAI - GPT-4o-mini + DALL-E 3
• Playwright - PDF generation
• Jinja2 - HTML templating
• S3 - File storage

License

MIT

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