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13 resources for “Pitch Deck Lessons + GitHub Samples”

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Pitch Deck Lessons + GitHub Samples

This guide compares successful and failed pitch decks from Airbnb and Fyre Festival alongside real GitHub profiles. You can use these examples to learn how t...

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A Guide to Raising Venture Capital

Great ideas from dedicated teams can find solutions, yet breakthroughs can fail due to the one resource needed to propel growth: money.

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n8n

Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. - n8n-io...

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13 resources for “Pitch Deck Lessons + GitHub Samples”

FreeDocument
Entrepreneurship & Free Tools

Pitch Deck Lessons + GitHub Samples

Two pitch decks compared side by side: Airbnb's 10-slide deck that raised $600K, and Fyre Festival's deck, whose company later faced fraud charges, plus sample GitHub work to use as a model for your own portfolio.

In plain terms: This guide compares successful and failed pitch decks from Airbnb and Fyre Festival alongside real GitHub profiles. You can use these examples to learn how to present business ideas clearly and structure your own technical portfolio.

Why I recommend it: One idea per slide. Problem, solution, evidence. Decoration never closed a round.

Pitch-Deck-and-GitHub-Samples.pdf

Created by Justin Smith — Launchpad Library

#airbnb#document#entrepreneurship#free#funding#fundraising#github#guide#investors#pitch-deck#portfolio#seed#slides#small-business#startup#startups#storytelling
Added Aug 29, 20260 opens
FreeArticle
Entrepreneurship & Free Tools

A Guide to Raising Venture Capital

What investors expect at each stage, how terms and valuations work, and how to prepare a raise in the current funding climate.

From the site: Great ideas from dedicated teams can find solutions, yet breakthroughs can fail due to the one resource needed to propel growth: money.

Why I recommend it: Read this before you assume you need VC. Most of the businesses I mentor are better off with revenue, grants, or an SBA loan.

#article#entrepreneurship#free#funding#fundraising#growth#investors#mentorship#pitch-deck#reading#small-business#valuation#venture-capital
EntrepreneurAdded Aug 30, 20260 opens
FreeTool
AI & Assistive Tools

n8n

A visual workflow tool for connecting apps and AI models — source-available, and free to run on your own server. Their hosted plans are paid.

From the site: Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. - n8n-io/n8n

Why I recommend it: This is how you automate the boring parts of a job hunt or a small business without writing code. Note the license is source-available, not fully open source.

#open-source#self-hosted#automation#workflows#free#ai-tools#no-code#small-business#docker#productivity
GitHubAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeDocument
Entrepreneurship & Free Tools

LinkedIn's Original Pitch to Greylock

The actual 2004 pitch deck Reid Hoffman used to raise LinkedIn's Series B, with his annotations explaining each slide.

From the site: At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.

Why I recommend it: One of the few real pitch decks published with the reasoning attached. Read the annotations more than the slides — they show what a room of investors was actually asking.

#case-study#fundraising#linkedin#pitch-deck#research#startup
Reid HoffmanAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreePlatform Tool
Marketing & Platform Tools

Convert GitHub Actions to GitLab CI/CD (Free AI Skill)

Free AI skill that converts GitHub Actions workflows into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, usable from Cursor, VS Code, Claude, or any MCP-compatible client.

From the site: Convert GitHub Actions workflows to GitLab CI/CD in seconds. Add a free AI skill to Cursor, VS Code, Claude, or any MCP-compatible client.

Why I recommend it: A practical way to show DevOps range: migrate a pipeline, document what changed, and add it to your portfolio. Also a clean example of how MCP skills plug into everyday tooling.

#ai-skill#automation#ci-cd#developer-tools#devops#free#github#gitlab#marketing#mcp#software-engineering#tool
GitLabAdded Aug 31, 20260 opens
FreeTool
AI & Assistive Tools

OpenHarness

An open-source platform for running coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex across your own machines and specialising them for domains like CAD, PCBs, robotics and games, with optional open hardware.

From the site: Follow your curiosity. Build across disciplines. Open-source software and hardware for polymaths in the making. - autonomous-ai/openharness

Why I recommend it: The software is free and open source. The agents you run inside it may cost money, and the companion hardware is a separate purchase — the repo itself is the free part.

#open-source#ai#agents#coding#hardware
GitHubAdded Sep 19, 20260 opens
FreeTool
AI & Assistive Tools

PyRIT

Microsoft's open-source toolkit for red-teaming AI systems: automated attack prompts, scoring of the responses, and repeatable runs. Free.

From the site: The Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT) is an open source framework built to empower security professionals and engineers to proactively identify risks in generative AI system...

Why I recommend it: Built by the team that red-teams Microsoft's own AI products, and released as-is. Best paired with a written idea of what you are testing for.

#ai ethics#ai-risk#ai-safety#developer-tools#free#microsoft#open-source#red-teaming#security#technology-and-ethics#testing
GitHubAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeTool
AI & Assistive Tools

garak

An open-source scanner that probes a language model for weaknesses — prompt injection, data leakage, jailbreaks, toxic output — and reports what it found. Free.

From the site: the LLM vulnerability scanner. Contribute to NVIDIA/garak development by creating an account on GitHub.

Why I recommend it: Point it at a model you are about to rely on and see how it fails before your users do.

#ai ethics#ai-risk#ai-safety#developer-tools#free#open-source#prompt-injection#red-teaming#research#security#technology-and-ethics#testing
GitHubAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeAI Tool
AI & Assistive Tools

LocalAI

An open-source drop-in replacement for the OpenAI API that runs models on your own hardware, including CPU-only machines. MIT licensed.

From the site: LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required. - mudler/LocalAI

Why I recommend it: Point existing code at your own server instead of a paid API — no code changes beyond the address.

#ai ethics#api#developers#docker#free#llm#local-ai#mit#open-source#privacy#self-hosted
GitHubAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeAI Tool
AI & Assistive Tools

Dify

An open-source platform for building and running AI apps and agents, with a hosted option and a full self-hosted Docker install.

From the site: Build Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without ...

Why I recommend it: More structure than a chat window: prompts, data and logs kept in one place. Start with their Docker install and one small app.

#open-source#self-hosted#agents#docker#free#ai-tools#workflows#rag#platform#developers
GitHubAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeAI Tool
AI & Assistive Tools

LibreChat

An open-source chat app you host yourself that talks to many model providers at once, with user accounts, presets and file uploads. MIT licensed.

From the site: Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, MCP, Skills, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Responses API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-5, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching,...

Why I recommend it: Good for a small team who want one chat tool across several providers without paying per seat.

#ai ethics#ai-tools#chat#docker#free#llm#mit#open-source#privacy#self-hosted#teams
GitHubAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
FreeTraining Program
Career & Professional Optimization

SkillMe — Open Source Internship Platform

India-based 4-week open-source engineering internship where you solve real GitHub issues, earn MSME-recognized certificates, and build verified proof of work.

From the site: India's 4-week open-source engineering internship. Solve real GitHub issues, earn MSME-recognized certificates, and build verified proof of work.

Why I recommend it: If you need real, verifiable engineering experience on a resume, shipping merged pull requests beats another certificate. Great for students and career switchers building a public track record.

#career#career-development#course#early-career#engineering#entry-level#free#github#india#internship#job markets#learning#open-source#portfolio#program#proof-of-work#resume#students#training
SkillMeAdded Aug 31, 20260 opens
FreeTool
AI & Assistive Tools

Job Search Agent (open-source AI job tracker)

Open-source AI agent that scans job boards daily, cross-references your LinkedIn network for warm intros, and emails you a curated list of matches. Self-hosted — you run it with your own keys.

In plain terms: This open-source tool scans job boards daily to find openings that fit your criteria. You can connect your LinkedIn network to spot contacts at hiring companies and receive daily email updates with active job matches.

From the site: AI agent that scans job boards daily, cross-references your LinkedIn for warm intros, and emails you curated matches - evanzsolomon/job-search-agent

Why I recommend it: For the technically comfortable. Read the code before you point it at your accounts, and never let an agent send applications unreviewed.

#ai#ai-agents#ai-tools#automation#free#github#job markets#job-alerts#job-search#job-search-automation#linkedin#open-source#resources#tool#warm-intros
GitHubAdded Aug 29, 20260 opens