Chronicle combines AI generation with powerful editing to create stunning presentations. Start from a prompt, notes, or raw idea and generate beautiful, on-brand slides in minutes. Edit with full control and export to PPT, PDF, or any format. No design skills required.
Chronicle is your AI-powered design partner for presentations. Turn notes, prompts, or existing decks into beautiful, on-brand slides in minutes. It asks a few questions, builds an impressive first draft, and lets you refine slides through conversation.
First, thank you. Everyone who voted, commented, or tried Chronicle. You helped us with a #1 finish in our first official launch on the same day Bubble also crossed 1000 votes. Massive gratitude
As a first-time founder, this was a special day. I would love to share what we've learnt. And would love to hear how we can do better, both in growing Chronicle and in improving the product itself.
Last month we kicked things off with a high-level recap of our Product of the Month launch - and you had so many questions that we went back to document every tactic in full. Today, here s the in-depth playbook: the exact strategies, experiments, and community-powered tests that took Chronicle to #1 on Product Hunt and over 1,000 upvotes within 24 hours.
Reviews praise Chronicle’s speed, clean flow, and collaboration, with many saying it turns rough notes into coherent, professional decks in minutes. Makers of
highlight fast, structured slide creation without fussy formatting, reinforcing strengths in AI-assisted narrative and layout. Users love tasteful design, templates, and team features, and report wins in pitching and internal alignment. Common asks: better exports (Keynote/PDF), image generation, auto-layout polish, looser sharing requirements. Some report glitches and weak mobile performance, plus occasional failures on structured tasks like SWOT.
Where other products have tried to increment on slides Chronicle has created a new category. Very powerful at turning a bullet point narrative into a story you can tell with high cut through and impact. Well done on launching such a strong v1 product.
I tried developing a SWOT analysis presentation on a recent product launch. I tried pasting in a lot of summary bullet points but it could not generate anything. Then I tried requesting a prompt to design a SWOT analysis, again nothing. I think it's still very glitchy and not ready for use.
Great Design and good summarisation of the data I gave. But I see that product seems to have trouble generating good images. when I tried the topic was well summarised but with no images. But great product ! Looking forward to better version.
Honestly one of the most fun products I’ve ever had to market. As a marketer who spends all day thinking about storytelling, working on a storytelling product is a dream 💖 Can't wait for everyone to try it!
@reneezhang23 seriously love how closely marketing and design and product work together - it's a dream to work with you! can't wait to hear what everyone thinks!
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@reneezhang23 you’re the GOAT — love how you manage to multitask and always have everything ready! such an inspiration. all the crazy stuff we’re building wouldn’t have been possible without you, super excited for people to finally try it out.
This launch is very special for the team. Months of work behind the scenes and years of data and learning finally shaping the way Chronicle is today. Huge shoutout to our engineering team, Claire and Elliot. I am in love with the new version. Can't wait for the world to experience this. 🔥✨
@oyeabhijit This is just the beginning Abhijit!! You, Claire and Elliot have been absolute rockstars 🔥 And honestly the whole engineering team deserves so much credit for this one. So excited for the world to finally see it ✨
Super excited for this! Grateful to everyone who shared feedback since our previous launch - a lot of it directly shaped what you see today. So lucky to be a part of this team ♥️
@sameekshatrivedi yes, today is big! Really excited for everyone to finally try Chronicle 2.0. All the feedback we received has been instrumental for this update
The positioning around AI slop is spot on. Every AI presentation tool right now generates the same generic layouts with the same stock-photo energy. The fact that you are leaning into design quality and conversational refinement rather than just speed is a real differentiator. Congrats on the 2.0 launch and 200k users!
@handuo Thank you! That’s exactly the direction we’re aiming for. Our hope is that AI can eventually help people focus more on the thinking and storytelling behind presentations, rather than wrestling with slides. But also, we don't want AI slop!! 😭 There's too much of that on the internet already. We care about craft, being intentional and producing high quality outputs that would make anyone proud to present as their own!
@handuo Thank you so much. "AI slop" is exactly what we've been fighting against 😅 speed is table stakes but taste is the real unlock. Really means a lot coming from you, appreciate the support! 🙏
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Sorry it didn’t work out for you Krishna. We are actually adding some 2x2s and templates for SWOT soon.
Would love to have you join our Slack community and I can share more: https://join.slack.com/t/chronic...