SlidesCarnival templates, free to use: $20K a month, self-reported in 2023

SlidesCarnival provides free presentation templates, AI presentation tools, document utilities, and PDF tools. Its $20K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of April 2023.

What it actually sells

SlidesCarnival sells free PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, Docs, and Sheets templates. Its presentation collection includes professionally designed templates for students, teachers, business professionals, marketers, and healthcare professionals.

The site also lists an AI presentation maker, font pairing tool, APA citation generator, and several PDF tools. Its PDF utilities cover presentation-to-PDF, PDF-to-presentation, PDF-to-JPG, JPG-to-PDF, editing, merging, and splitting.

How it charges

Its pricing is free to use, with no registration, signups, or download limits. The site states, “Free to use — no signups, no limits.” Visitors can use the templates without registering, creating signups, or hitting download limits.

Where customers come from

Visible site surfaces include a free AI presentation maker, free font pairing and APA citation tools, a free presentation-to-PDF converter, and Canva templates exportable to PowerPoint and Google Slides.

The stated audience includes students, teachers, business professionals, marketers, and healthcare professionals. One template page says, “Perfect for business professionals, this Competitor Pricing Analysis slideshow template is designed to help you stay ahead of the competition.”

What stands out

The templates include customizable slides with charts, frames, lines, and shapes. Once opened in Canva, a template can still be exported to PowerPoint or Google Slides.

The broader tool set combines presentation and document utilities: “Use the AI presentation maker, font pairing tool, APA citation generator, and several handy PDF tools.” The site also lists tools for converting, editing, merging, and splitting PDF files.

From the official site

Perfect for business professionals, this Competitor Pricing Analysis slideshow template is designed to help you stay ahead of the competition.

Use the AI presentation maker, font pairing tool, APA citation generator, and several handy PDF tools.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

SlidesCarnival's $20K a month is higher than 74% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view is that demand would come from people preparing presentations and working with common office files. Buyers would include students, teachers, business professionals, marketers, and healthcare professionals. Distribution would need to connect with those audiences through free tools, search-driven template pages, and exports that remain useful in established editing software.

The harder work would be producing a dependable collection of templates and maintaining document utilities. Each template needs visual consistency and compatibility across formats. Conversion, editing, and citation tools also require careful handling of files and user expectations. Free access can increase support demands around broken files, compatibility questions, and downloads.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

A useful lesson is to study how free templates and practical utilities form one product surface. SlidesCarnival combines presentation downloads, free tools, customizable designs, and exports to PowerPoint and Google Slides, giving visitors several visible ways to use the site.

Sources

SlidesCarnival official website, fetched October 1, 2026
SlidesCarnival pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of April 2023

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure