OpenAI Founder's Tweet got us 1000s of signups days before our Product Hunt launch

Hey Product Hunt crew,

I’m Tejas, co-founder of Chronicle aka “Cursor for Slides.”

Wanted to share a quick backstage story and invite your feedback.

The Karpathy Bump

Last weekend Andrej Karpathy tweeted a single line: “We still need a Cursor for Slides.” Folks started tagging Chronicle within minutes. What followed was wild:

• 48 h of nonstop mentions on X and LinkedIn

• Traffic spike > 10× our daily average

• A few thousand net-new sign-ups before our scheduled Product Hunt launch

For a tiny team still polishing pixels, it was both exhilarating and slightly terrifying.

Why Chronicle Seems to Resonate

Most AI slide tools pump out nice-looking filler. Great for a classroom project, not for a board meeting. We took a slower, harder path:

• Serious use cases first – investor decks, product launches, board updates, demos

• Free-form smart canvas – move anything anywhere instead of being trapped in templates

• AI + taste – the engine combines narrative structure with Apple-grade typography and spacing

• Attention controls – features like Peek and Deep Hover guide focus so your key point never gets buried

• Widgets over slides – build interactive charts, code blocks, product tours… all without leaving the deck

The result: early adopters say they’re cutting creation time from 10 h to ~10 min while raising design quality.

We’re Live Today

Public beta went up this morning. If you have a high-stakes story to tell, I’d love for you to put Chronicle through its paces.

Thanks for reading and for shaping the future of better presentations. See you in the comments!