What should the images on a SaaS carousel show?
The default is an isometric illustration of a dashboard, which tells an operator nothing. Slides in this niche work when the image is evidence.
| Slide | What the image should be | What to avoid |
|---|
| 1, the hook | Flat background, the decision in large type | A 3D illustration of a laptop with charts |
| Number slides | Your own chart, cropped, axis labeled | A revenue screenshot with a blurred total |
| Interface slides | The real screen, before and after, side by side | A mockup of a feature you have not shipped |
| Last slide | Same background, one question | A customer logo wall |
Build the text slides in the slideshow builder and crop real screens for the evidence slides. Blur customer names and data, not your own numbers: a blurred chart with nothing readable is the same as no chart.
What should you keep off a SaaS slide?
These slides get screenshotted into group chats full of other founders, which is the most skeptical possible audience.
- No customer logo without written permission, and none at all if the contract says otherwise.
- No competitor pricing unless you screenshot their page and put the date on the slide. Pricing pages change weekly.
- No benchmark you did not measure. "Average churn is X" needs a source on the same slide or it should not be there.
- No customer data visible in a screenshot. Blur the account, not the metric.
- No revenue figure presented as proof that the advice works.
The strongest version is always your own number with the context attached: what it was, what you changed, what it is now, over how many weeks.
Where should a founder post these, and does it convert?
The output is PNGs at 1080 x 1920, which is the shape TikTok photo mode and Instagram carousels expect. On a desktop-first network a vertical image is cropped in the feed, so keep the text in the middle third and let the edges be background.
Nobody buys software from a carousel. The realistic job is that another operator saves the teardown, follows, and answers your email four months later. Post the decision, not the product, and put one question on the last slide instead of a demo link.
A seven-slide teardown is 7 credits at 1 credit per slide, about 50 cents on the $49.99 plan for 700 credits and about 47 cents on the $199.99 plan for 3,000. Editing the text and re-rendering costs nothing, so you can soften a number after a co-founder reads it. For customer-facing creative rather than founder posts, see SaaS UGC ads.