How to best use Slidiz
Start with a clear brief
Everything begins in the prompt box on the home page. Slidiz matches your brief to a focused creative lane — hook families, slide structures, image styles, and anti-patterns learned from viral slideshow posts — so the more clearly you describe the job, the better those patterns apply.
Give Slidiz the raw material
Name the product, the exact audience, the pain point, the desired outcome, and the action you want from the viewer. A strong brief sounds like: "5-slide skincare deck for women in their 20s whose skin barrier will not heal. Teach three calming ingredients, then softly mention my routine builder app. Goal: profile visits." A weak brief sounds like: "Make a slideshow for my app."
Be narrow about the audience
"Women in their 20s whose skin barrier will not heal" beats "everyone". Vague audiences produce generic hooks, and a hook that could apply to any product usually travels like one.
Pick one goal per deck
Follow, download, profile visit, or comment — choose a single action you want and say it in the brief. Decks that ask for everything convert on nothing.
Answer the onboarding questions
After you hit Generate, a short onboarding tunes the deck: a few details about your app, the audience and viewer goal, and an optional screenshot for the closing CTA slide. The product action selects the creative lane automatically. These take under a minute and steer the draft before Slidiz writes a single slide.
Let Slidiz choose the creative lane
Slidiz reads the product action in your brief — scanning, planning, comparing, practising, tracking, or another concrete job — then routes it to a focused playbook with the right hook families, slide structures, and image language. If the action is unclear, add one sentence describing what the viewer should see the product do.
Describe your app or website
The onboarding asks for your app's name, what it does, and the result it delivers. Describe outcomes, not features — "builds a skincare routine around your skin barrier" tells the engine more than "a skincare app". These answers shape how softly or directly the deck mentions the product.
Add an app screenshot for the CTA slide (optional)
Drop in a screenshot during onboarding and Slidiz composites it into a full-bleed call-to-action slide at the end of the deck. You can change the layout — full, fit, or centred card — later from the editor's Image tab, or add a screenshot there if you skipped it.
Polish the deck in the editor
The generated deck opens in the editor with a live phone preview. Drag thumbnails to reorder, add or remove slides, and refine each one from the panel on the right.
Work the three panel tabs
Post holds the headline, body, caption block, and slide duration for the Shorts video. Image covers replacing the picture — search Pinterest for alternatives, upload your own, reuse a saved image, or build the CTA composite. Captions styles the overlay text: font, size, colour, placement, and backdrop.
Understand the two formats
TikTok slideshows and Instagram carousels share one 3:4 deck — the same images post to both, so you only make it once. YouTube Shorts uses a taller 9:16 video with each slide held for the duration you set (default 1s). The phone preview shows each platform's real UI so captions stay clear of buttons and usernames.
Edit the first draft
Treat the generated deck as a strong draft, not a final cut. Tighten anything generic, make the hook more specific, swap weak images from the picker, and keep the product mention soft unless the deck is intentionally direct-response. If the first slide could apply to any product, rewrite it before exporting.
Save images you want to reuse
Hit Save image under the preview to add the current slide's picture to your library, then reuse it on other slides and projects from the Image tab's Saved drawer.
Remix similar decks
Once a deck works, don't rebuild it from scratch. Every saved project has an Remix button on the Projects page that generates a fresh, similar deck from that project's saved brief — one click, no onboarding.
What Remix reuses
Your saved brief — the prompt, app details, promotion level, and CTA goal. The engine routes the product action, picks a focused hook family, and writes brand-new copy and imagery, so each run is a genuinely new post in the same direction, not a copy of the old one.
Where the new deck goes
It saves as a new project (the original is untouched), appears at the top of your projects list, and opens straight into the editor for a quick polish before download. The CTA screenshot composite is not carried over — re-add it from the Image tab if you want it.
Use it as a posting routine
Volume is the whole strategy, and Remix removes the setup cost of each post. Once a day: open Projects, hit Remix on your best-performing deck, give the draft a two-minute polish, download, post. Thirty decks a month for a few minutes a day.
Export and publish
The Download button gives you a ZIP with a slideshow folder — 3:4 images formatted for a TikTok slideshow or Instagram carousel — plus a 9:16 youtube-shorts.mp4 video. Everything renders in your browser, so nothing is uploaded during the browser export. TikTok and Instagram files are downloaded and posted manually. For YouTube, download the MP4 or, when the integration is enabled, connect your YouTube channel and upload the video privately from Slidiz after reviewing its details.
The honest truth: what results to expect
Slideshows are a volume game, not a lottery ticket. A typical post from a small account lands around 300–3,000 views and converts a small fraction of viewers — but decks that hit the right hook jump to 10k, 100k, occasionally 1M+ views, and one outlier can drive more downloads than months of ordinary posts. The format wins because a deck takes minutes, not hours: publish manually to TikTok and Instagram, and download or privately upload to YouTube, at near-zero cost.
Judge the strategy monthly, not per post
A single deck at 500 views is not a failure; twenty decks averaging 500 views with no outliers means change the hooks, not the format. Every post is another chance at the outlier, and you cannot predict which one it will be — you can only make sure you have enough posts in the water.
Expect conversion in fractions of a percent
If 1 in 100 viewers visits your profile and 1 in 10 of those downloads, 30,000 monthly views is roughly 30 downloads. That sounds small until you remember the content cost you almost nothing — the economics work because the cost per post is near zero, not because any one post converts hard.
Consistency beats perfection
The algorithm rewards accounts that post reliably in one niche. A decent deck posted today outperforms a perfect deck posted never — and outliers compound, because a post that travels lifts your follower count and with it the baseline views of every post after it.
Warm up accounts before posting
A brand-new account that posts immediately can look like spam to the algorithm and get buried at zero views — no matter how good the deck is. “Warming up” means spending a few days acting like a real user in your niche so the platform trusts your account before your first post. The right amount differs by platform, and these are community best practices rather than official rules — treat them as a sensible default, not a guarantee.
TikTok
Warm up 3 to 7 days. Each day, scroll your niche for 20-30 minutes, genuinely like posts, leave real comments rather than emoji-only replies, and follow 8-10 relevant accounts spread throughout the day. Engage mostly in your niche, but interact with a few unrelated viral videos too so the account does not look automated. Hold off on bio links and heavy profile changes for the first couple of days.
Warm up 7 to 10 days. Spend 20-30 minutes a day watching Reels, like roughly one in ten posts, follow a few relevant accounts daily, and keep total actions under about 150 a day. Post the first Reel around day 7-10 once the account has a normal browsing and engagement pattern.
YouTube
Minimal warm-up is usually enough. Verify the channel with a phone number, watch content in your niche for a few days, and interact lightly before uploading the first Short so YouTube sees a real viewer behind the channel.
Your first TikTok post, step by step
Don't post for the first 48-72 hours — spend them watching niche content all the way through. Make the first post pure value: no links, no offer, a sound trending in the last 7 days, 3-4 niche hashtags, a short caption with one niche keyword. Use unique images — TikTok fingerprints uploads, so recompose anything that has already gone viral (your caption overlay in the Slidiz editor already helps). Add your bio link only after the first post clears roughly 1k views, wait ~24 hours before the second post, and never mass-delete underperformers.