Presentation about making presentations

Nick Mikulin · Manychat Engineering Community · Nov 25 2025

Start by asking a question...

What is one thing I want my audience to remember after my presentation?

What is one thing I want you to remember today?

Build presentations like you build products

Presentation

1 Context

2 Message

3 Delivery

Presentation

1 Context

2 Message

3 Delivery

Product

== Context

== Logic

== Interface

1 Context

··  Who are my users?

2 Message

3 Delivery

0 Context

··  Who are my users?

1 Message

2 Delivery

0 Context

··  Who are my users?

Mostly engineers, many of them I know personally

··  What's the setting?

End of the day, internal meetup, after two tech talks

··  What are my constraints?

10 min, offline + online, big screen, low contrast

1 Message

2 Delivery

0 Context

1 Message

··  What's the problem?

Preparing presentations is stressful and time-consuming

··  What can I offer?

A simplified 3-part framework with guiding questions

··  Why will it work?

I will connect it to a familiar topic of product building

2 Delivery

0 Context

1 Message

2 Delivery

··  How do I package the message?

Deliberately minimal slides in a tool familiar to devs

··  How do I guide attention?

Giving information bit by bit as a personal story

··  How do I make it stick?

Repetition and playful meta-demonstration

Test your product presentation

Alpha

Presented to my wife this weekend

My delivery would not be refined without her

···

Beta

Presented to Anton and Anna on Monday

This slide would not be here without them

···

Launch

Presenting to you right now

I would not be here without you

What is one thing I want you to remember today?

Build presentations like you build products

Build Slack messages like you build products

Build task descriptions like you build products

Build documentation like you build products

Nick Mikulin · Manychat Engineering Community · Nov 25 2025