Born in a
boring lecture.

Manulis class. Referencing and citations. How to write someone's name in the right order, which style guide to use, where to put the full stop. Genuinely important if you care about academic integrity. Absolutely brutal to sit through.

Asked it to find the source documents being discussed. It found them. Then I asked it to pull the citations, cross-reference the authors, and synthesise the whole thing into something I could actually read — not a bibliography, not a wall of formatted text, just: here's what these papers actually say.

That worked. Surprisingly well. So I pushed further — can you turn this into slides?

It did. But every slide looked different. One had a blue header. The next had no header. The fonts were all over the place. The content was right. The look was a mess. Every single time I generated an image or a slide it came out non-uniform, like it had been designed by three different people with no brief and a deadline.

That's what annoyed me enough to build something. Not the citations, not the AI — just the fact that the output looked like it was made by someone who didn't care. I care about this stuff.

So I spent a few hours building a version where you pick a visual style — neon, sketch, cinematic, batik, whatever — and every slide that comes out looks like it belongs to the same deck. Consistent. Intentional. Done.

Showed it to friends in the same class. They wanted to use it. Someone shared it in the group chat. That was that.

Slayde isn't a grand vision. It's a problem I had, solved properly, shared because other people had the same problem.