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280 North

Y CombinatorWinter 2008AcquiredB2BEngineering, Product and Design

What they do

Problem

Building rich, desktop-like web applications and creating/shareable presentations in a browser is difficult with traditional web tools.

Solution

It provides the open-source Cappuccino/Objective-J framework for building rich web apps and a browser-based presentation app (280 Slides) with media integration and PowerPoint import/export.

Who it's for

Web application developers and end users who need to create presentations in a web browser.

Founders

Ross Boucher
Founder
LinkedIn
Tom Robinson
Founder
Francisco Tolmasky
Founder
LinkedIn

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