SlideShare cofounders Amit Ranjan, Jonathan Boutelle, and Rashmi Sinha have launched a new AI-powered social document-sharing platform called Jaunt. SlideShare Launches Jaun aiming to give professional content sharing a new, interactive twist
What Makes Jaunt Unique?
Just like SlideShare, Jaunt enables users to upload, share, like, and follow creators. The difference is that it highly emphasizes social interaction by including features like commentability at the post level to create more engagement. The presentation and document feed is vertical scrolling in nature and is spread across categories such as:
- Business
- Education
- Science
- Technology
Jaunt has content varying from a pitch deck of a startup to academic documents and much more, serving professionals and creators alike.
AI-Powered Features for Better Content Sharing
Jaunt uses the most advanced AI tools like Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI to make content creation easier. When the user uploads files, the AI:
- Suggests titles, categories, and hashtags
- Generates concise summaries for captions
- Future updates will include the translation of documents into multiple languages, Summarization of complex materials in a read-friendly format
- It also has a mobile-first design with swipe-based navigation and tools to discover related content.
Vision of the Founders
Amit Ranjan on LinkedIn stated how the team is working on transforming the way one shares documents with others. “Videos and Photos are innovating at the speed of a race car, and documents were totally left behind. The return of AI brings back in focus text-based content, where the internet’s very evolution hinges.
Ranjan also reflected on SlideShare’s journey, which, though successful, never really reached its full potential because of the limitations it faced after LinkedIn acquired it in 2012. He said that Jaunt aims to unlock new opportunities by addressing the lack of document-focused platforms in today’s digital ecosystem.
Empowering Professional Creators
Jaunt helps content creators in business, education, and technology. The platform will introduce hashtags, making it easy for users to explore trending topics and discover relevant documents. Its goal is to create a dedicated space for professional content sharing, fostering community and collaboration.
Get Involved with Jaunt
The co-founders of this innovation journey with Jaunt present the boldest new step on the professional content-sharing landscape, signifying a strong focus both on user needs and technological advancement. To find out more about Jaunt or the other ventures of SlideShare’s team, try the Founder Labs platform, meant to scale transformative ideas and startups.
