Vibecode Pitch
track this build5 steps, step by step0%The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Pitch, build structured presentations with reusable blocks, comments, and polished export. The hard boundary is real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management, plus editor polish, assets, collaboration, and distribution.
You are building a lean indie version of Pitch. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Pitch indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Pitch workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management - huge template and asset libraries - real-time multiplayer - brand governance - professional print workflows If those capabilities are essential, use Penpot instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Pitch in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, IndexedDB, and SVG; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a fixed-size SVG canvas with zoom, pan, selection, alignment, and snapping. Support text, rectangles, circles, images, groups, layers, and reusable components. Add a small set of high-quality starter layouts relevant to the product category. Implement undo, redo, autosave, and import or export of a portable project JSON file. Export SVG and print-ready PDF without rasterizing text unnecessarily. Keep all assets local and display missing-font warnings before export. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out real-time multiplayer editing. Deliberately leave out a commercial stock-asset library. Deliberately leave out enterprise brand controls and approval workflows. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - modern desktop browser - local fonts and images - optional image-generation API key ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a lean indie version of Pitch. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Pitch indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Pitch workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management - huge template and asset libraries - real-time multiplayer - brand governance - professional print workflows If those capabilities are essential, use Penpot instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Pitch in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, IndexedDB, and SVG; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a fixed-size SVG canvas with zoom, pan, selection, alignment, and snapping. Support text, rectangles, circles, images, groups, layers, and reusable components. Add a small set of high-quality starter layouts relevant to the product category. Implement undo, redo, autosave, and import or export of a portable project JSON file. Export SVG and print-ready PDF without rasterizing text unnecessarily. Keep all assets local and display missing-font warnings before export. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out real-time multiplayer editing. Deliberately leave out a commercial stock-asset library. Deliberately leave out enterprise brand controls and approval workflows. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - modern desktop browser - local fonts and images - optional image-generation API key ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a production product version of Pitch. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== PRODUCT.md ===== # Pitch product brief ## Problem The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Pitch, build structured presentations with reusable blocks, comments, and polished export. The hard boundary is real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management, plus editor polish, assets, collaboration, and distribution. ## Product outcome Build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - modern desktop browser - local fonts and images - optional image-generation API key ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management - huge template and asset libraries - real-time multiplayer - brand governance - professional print workflows ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees. ===== ARCHITECTURE.md ===== # Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for Pitch in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, IndexedDB, and SVG; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a fixed-size SVG canvas with zoom, pan, selection, alignment, and snapping. Support text, rectangles, circles, images, groups, layers, and reusable components. Add a small set of high-quality starter layouts relevant to the product category. Implement undo, redo, autosave, and import or export of a portable project JSON file. Export SVG and print-ready PDF without rasterizing text unnecessarily. Keep all assets local and display missing-font warnings before export. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out real-time multiplayer editing. Deliberately leave out a commercial stock-asset library. Deliberately leave out enterprise brand controls and approval workflows. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone. ===== MILESTONES.md ===== # Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations. ===== OPERATIONS.md ===== # Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Pitch capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
# Pitch indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Pitch workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management - huge template and asset libraries - real-time multiplayer - brand governance - professional print workflows If those capabilities are essential, use Penpot instead of pretending the gap is solved.
# Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".
# Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Pitch in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, IndexedDB, and SVG; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a fixed-size SVG canvas with zoom, pan, selection, alignment, and snapping. Support text, rectangles, circles, images, groups, layers, and reusable components. Add a small set of high-quality starter layouts relevant to the product category. Implement undo, redo, autosave, and import or export of a portable project JSON file. Export SVG and print-ready PDF without rasterizing text unnecessarily. Keep all assets local and display missing-font warnings before export. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out real-time multiplayer editing. Deliberately leave out a commercial stock-asset library. Deliberately leave out enterprise brand controls and approval workflows. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - modern desktop browser - local fonts and images - optional image-generation API key ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
# Pitch product brief ## Problem The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Pitch, build structured presentations with reusable blocks, comments, and polished export. The hard boundary is real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management, plus editor polish, assets, collaboration, and distribution. ## Product outcome Build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - modern desktop browser - local fonts and images - optional image-generation API key ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management - huge template and asset libraries - real-time multiplayer - brand governance - professional print workflows ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.
# Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for Pitch in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, IndexedDB, and SVG; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build structured presentations from reusable blocks on a canvas, edit text and media, support comments, and export a finished deck as SVG or PDF. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a fixed-size SVG canvas with zoom, pan, selection, alignment, and snapping. Support text, rectangles, circles, images, groups, layers, and reusable components. Add a small set of high-quality starter layouts relevant to the product category. Implement undo, redo, autosave, and import or export of a portable project JSON file. Export SVG and print-ready PDF without rasterizing text unnecessarily. Keep all assets local and display missing-font warnings before export. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out real-time multiplayer editing. Deliberately leave out a commercial stock-asset library. Deliberately leave out enterprise brand controls and approval workflows. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.
# Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.
# Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.
# Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Pitch capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
$ choose a build depth, inspect the files, then open the complete pack in your agent · this prompt is generated from the build plan · improve it via PR
People still pay for Pitch because people pay for a vast ready-made design system and a collaboration surface that behaves predictably under deadline. The recurring cost buys canvas correctness, fonts, exports, templates, asset rights, multiplayer state, and accessibility, not just the visible interface.
xreal-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management
xhuge template and asset libraries
xreal-time multiplayer
xbrand governance
xprofessional print workflows
Don't feel like building it? These folks already made it free.
all 5 free alternatives to Pitch →· no votes, no pay-to-list · just what's real
Pitch pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/workspace | $0/workspace | 1–5 members; 100 one-time AI credits; 2 external guests; 10 GB total storage; 1 teamspace. |
| plus | $12 | $10 | Maximum 1 member; 500 AI credits/month; 5 external guests; 10 GB storage. |
| team | $18/user | $15/user | 1–25 members; 500 AI credits per seat/month pooled across the workspace; 25 advanced links; 3 teamspaces; 2 rooms; 25 guests; 10 GB/member. |
| business | $24/user | $20/user | 1–200 members; 750 AI credits per seat/month pooled across the workspace; unlimited advanced links, teamspaces, rooms and guests; 10 GB/member. |
| enterprise | custom | — | For 30+ seats with SSO/SCIM, invoicing and custom support; price is not public. |
free tier1–5 members, 100 one-time AI credits, 2 guests, 10 GB total storage and 1 teamspace.
billingmonthly + annual (-17%)
hidden costsMember caps count paid and free roles. AI credits renew with the subscription and are pooled across the workspace, so heavy users can consume the team's allowance.
verified 2026-08-14 · source ↗
Vibecode Pitch
Kinda. The core of Pitch is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management, huge template and asset libraries. Read the honest list above before committing.
How much does Pitch cost?
Pitch costs about $20/month (Plus, checked 2026-07-31), which is $240 per year.
What do I lose by replacing Pitch?
Honestly: real-time collaboration, templates, analytics, and team content management; huge template and asset libraries; real-time multiplayer; brand governance; professional print workflows. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Pitch?
Yes: LibreOffice Impress (A proper offline presentation app with PPTX/PDF support and no account; collaboration means sending files like it is 2012.) Canva Free (Polished presentation templates and collaborative editing with good PDF export; more design playground, less structured deck system.) Google Slides (The boring default remains excellent: live collaboration, comments, templates, and PPTX/PDF export with no meaningful personal-use ceiling.) All 5 curated free alternatives are at vibecodeit.com/pitch/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.