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When you work in the commercial team of a product-based company, you tend to spend a lot of time with PowerPoint. Especially in a place where newer products are always coming up. I had a similar experience when I joined Qure.ai. I frequently ended up making custom presentations based on the client I’m talking to. In most cases, I know someone must have made this slide already but I’m not sure who did and when. I would go on our slack channel and check; someone would respond after a sometime with one ppt that probably has the slide I need. Obviously, this is not ideal, and neither is having a central repository of all the presentations (no way of finding where the slide I need is). That is when I started to think about working on ‘SIR - Slide Identifier and Retriever’ and the following is what I learnt while making it
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I was recently tasked with reaching out to people who demoed products on our website and see if there are any genuine leads. The only information I had was their email, what product they tried and the country they were from. I realized I have to first reach out to all of them through mail and take it forward when I get a response. With limited information available, I had to use a generic template for the mail content and send a bunch of emails and this needs to be done frequently. I wasn’t exactly thrilled about the idea and since I’ve been learning python recently, I thought why not automate this? Now, my interaction with automation before this point was only with my old laptop that used to shut down on its own. So, this is quite new to me and you will understand that once you go through the tutorial. In the spirit of embracing the noobness, I may explain some very basic stuff I figured out as well, this is also to encourage anyone who has no experience in python to try this because If I can do it, anyone can do it.