About
Out loud. Mid-sentence. In front of everyone.
We are a small team that presents a lot, and we were as frustrated as you are.
You are three minutes into a point you have made well. You reach the moment the next slide is supposed to land. And you stop, break your own rhythm, and say it out loud: next slide, please. Everyone hears it. The moment goes.
What bothered us was not just the interruption. It was that there was no elegant way to have a back-channel with the person running the deck at all. No way to say hold on this one, or my mic is off, or wrap me up, without either saying it in front of the audience or hoping somebody was watching the chat. Production teams have solved this for decades with cue lights and headsets. Everyone else has been stuck saying it out loud.
So we built the smallest thing that fixes it: a private channel, a cue that arrives instantly, and confirmation that a human saw it.
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No time limit, no cue count, no reduced reliability on the free plan. If a limit could bite while you are speaking, it is not a limit we will use, however well it might convert.
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SlideCue never touches your presentation software. It sends a message to a person, and that person decides. Plenty of productions deliberately keep the deck away from the speaker, and they are right to.
03
Whoever you invite opens a link and starts working. Asking a favour of somebody and then making them create an account is a bad way to treat them.
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No tracking of individuals. We count how many sessions run and how many cues get acknowledged, and nothing that identifies a person, a meeting, or a word anyone typed.
The slide change is the first use case, not the whole idea. The interesting version of this is a proper back-channel for live presentations: messages in both directions, several speakers on one panel, and eventually scripts that move with your cues.
We are building it in the order that keeps it dependable, which means the boring reliability work happens before the exciting features.