Sh*t, the presentation is tomorrow.

panicslides is open early because i need real people doing real things with it — not just me poking buttons at 3am and pretending that counts as testing.

It is not a fake teaser, not a waitlist, and not "coming soon". The editor, publishing, and sharing are real.

Some parts are still work in progress. Some features are hidden until they stop misbehaving. Things will change. But the important part is: decks saved to your account are treated as real work, not disposable beta confetti.

No.

You can create and publish anonymously without signing up.

Very dramatic.
Very internet before everything became a login screen, a funnel, a growth hack, and a shareholder-optimized permission slip.

Millennials may remember.
Damn, i'm old.

If you want to keep decks connected to you, make a free account and manually link the decks you care about.

Publishing turns your deck into a public web presentation.

For guests and free accounts, publishing means: done. The deck is published anonymously and is no longer editable afterwards.

For Pro users, publishing means: owned. You can keep editing, republish, overwrite the earlier version, and publish under your own @handle.

Short version:

Free can publish.
Pro can own.

Free means you can create and publish anonymously.

Pro is for ownership: publishing under your own @handle, republishing, higher limits, more storage, and generally less "anonymous gremlin with a link" energy.

During Early Access, Pro is available through Patreon Supporter access. Direct panicslides subscriptions are planned soon:

• €9.99/month
• €79/year

No lifetime plan. No mysterious founder pyramid. Just Free and Pro.

No.

I am against making everything miserable and then calling it a business model.

panicslides has a Free plan because people should be able to create before being asked for money.

panicslides has a Pro plan because servers, storage, development time, support, and keeping weird things alive are unfortunately not powered by vibes.

Free is for creating and publishing anonymously.
Pro is for owning, republishing, higher limits, and your public @handle.

That feels fair to me.

If you support via Patreon, you can connect your Patreon account to panicslides and unlock Pro while your membership is active.

That support does two things:

1. gives you panicslides Pro during Early Access
2. helps me keep building panicslides and other weird useful things instead of disappearing into freelance survival mode forever

If Patreon says you are supporting but panicslides does not unlock correctly, email:

support@panicslides.com

I will fix it manually if needed.

Yes, with Pro.

Pro users can claim a public @handle, publish under it, and republish their own decks.

Free users publish anonymously. That is intentional: free is for creating and sharing; Pro is for owning your public presence.

Yes, but not every five minutes like a suspicious wizard.

Pro users can change their handle, but old handles stay reserved for the same account so nobody else can claim them later and accidentally look connected to your old decks.

Handle changes may also be rate-limited, because public names should not be a sport.

No website should promise "forever" while keeping a straight face.

But the intended rule is:

• registered account decks stay saved to your account
• anonymous drafts depend on your browser/session token
• free published decks are public, anonymous, and not an ownership guarantee
• Pro decks are the stable lane: owned, editable, and republishable while your Pro access is active

If a deck matters, link it to your account.
If a published deck needs to stay yours, use Pro.

During Early Access:

Free:

• publish anonymously
• up to 15 slides per deck
• up to 20 linked account decks
• no republishing after publish
• no @handle publishing

Pro:

• publish under your @handle
• republish owned decks
• up to 25 slides per deck
• up to 50 linked account decks
• up to 1GB account file storage
• up to 45MB files per presentation

These limits may change while panicslides grows, but they should stay reasonable and not turn into spreadsheet punishment.

Free users: no. Published means completed.

Pro users: yes. You can edit and republish owned presentations.

That is one of the main differences between "i made a thing" and "i own this thing publicly".

Viewing published decks should work in the browser.

Creating/editing is currently much better on a laptop or desktop. Mobile editing is not the hill i am choosing to die on during Early Access.

Because some features exist internally but are not public yet.

panicslides already has work-in-progress systems like WebGL backgrounds, viewer interactions, reactions, annotations, and other dangerous toys. Some of them work. Some of them work until you ask them to behave across the entire editor → publish → export chain.

If a feature is hidden, it is probably not gone. It is just not allowed near the public buttons yet.

No.

Remixing sounds fun until copyright, missing credit, stolen decks, and "same presentation but with my name on it" walk into the room.

You can make your own decks.
You can duplicate your own decks.
Public remixing is not part of panicslides.

Not as a giant feed of everyone's stuff.

Pro users will have public @handle pages where their own public presentations can live. That is the gallery model: creator-owned spaces, not a random content swamp.

Use things you own, created yourself, are allowed to use, or have permission to use.

Do not upload illegal content, harassment, hate, scams, malware, doxxing, pornographic content, copyrighted stuff you do not have rights to, or anything that makes me regret opening the doors.

Make weird things.
Do not make life worse for everyone.

Email:

support@panicslides.com

Please include:

• what happened
• what you expected
• your browser
• the presentation link if there is one
• whether you were signed in or anonymous

Bonus points if the report does not start with "this is unusable" because one button was 3px too far left.

No.

It is real, usable, and open — but not finished.

Early Access means the core is here, the shape is clear, and the product will get better by being used by people who are not me.