# 90-Second Demo Video Script

**Recording window:** Tue May 5 – Wed May 6 (target first take Tue evening; retakes through Sat May 9 if needed)
**Tools:** QuickTime Player (free, built-in) for screen + mic capture; iMovie for trim/title-card
**Format:** 1920×1080, H.264 .mp4, target ~50 MB. Upload to Product Hunt, embed in LinkedIn, attach to first Show HN comment.
**One take.** Authenticity > polish. If you flub, redo the whole take.

## Setup checklist (30 minutes before recording)

- [ ] Sign in to a demo account that has lived-in dashboard data (don't show a blank-slate dashboard)
- [ ] Pre-load an exam where you can deliberately answer one question wrong (VPC peering question is the canonical demo)
- [ ] Browser at full screen (Cmd+Shift+F in Safari) — no chrome
- [ ] Browser zoom 110% (text readable on small screens)
- [ ] Do Not Disturb on — close all notifications
- [ ] Close all tabs except the one you're recording
- [ ] Quiet room. Decent mic. Glass of water nearby.

## Recording sequence

> **[0:00 — 0:08]** *On screen: AccelaStudy dashboard, lived-in*
>
> "I'm Charles. I'm one human. This is everything I built in 81 days with Claude as my only collaborator."

> **[0:08 — 0:18]** *On screen: scroll across the dashboard slowly*
>
> "AccelaStudy AI is a study tool — but not the kind you've used before. It tracks what you actually know, in real time, in under 2 milliseconds, after every single answer."

> **[0:18 — 0:30]** *On screen: click into an exam, see the question*
>
> "Here's why that matters. Most study apps tell you you're sixty percent on AWS. So what? AccelaStudy tells you why. Watch this."

> **[0:30 — 0:45]** *On screen: deliberately answer a VPC peering question wrong*
>
> "I just got a VPC peering question wrong. Most apps mark it red and move on. AccelaStudy traces it back — through the knowledge graph — to the actual gap."

> **[0:45 — 0:57]** *On screen: knowledge map opens, weak prerequisite highlighted*
>
> "The real problem isn't VPC peering. It's IP subnetting. The four-minute lesson on subnets is queued up for me, automatically. That's root-cause gap detection, and nobody else does it."

> **[0:57 — 1:10]** *On screen: readiness gauge with confidence intervals*
>
> "It also tells me when I'm actually ready for the exam — probabilistic simulation, two thousand attempts, with confidence intervals. So you don't burn a hundred-and-fifty-dollar voucher on a coin flip."

> **[1:10 — 1:25]** *On screen: provider page showing all certs*
>
> "929 certifications. over 1.4 million AI-synthesized questions. 2196 hands-on labs. AWS, Azure, GCP, CompTIA, AP, MCAT, LSAT, SAT, ACT — everything. Thirty-nine bucks a month for May — forty-nine after that."

> **[1:25 — 1:35]** *On screen: cut back to dashboard, then accelastudy.ai logo*
>
> "Free demo at accelastudy dot ai slash try, no signup required. One human. One AI. 81 days. That's the whole story. Try it."

## Post-production (30 minutes max)

1. Open in iMovie
2. Trim: cut the first 1-2 seconds before "I'm Charles" (silence)
3. Trim: cut the last 1-2 seconds after "Try it" (silence)
4. Optional: 1-second title card at start with `AccelaStudy AI` in black on white. Skip if it doesn't help.
5. Optional: subtle on-screen text labels (8pt, bottom of screen) when key numbers appear: "under 2 milliseconds", "81 days", "929 certs"
6. Export: 1080p, H.264, .mp4
7. Verify file size < 100 MB (PH limit is 200 MB but 50-80 is the sweet spot for fast loads)

## Why this script wins

1. **First eight seconds are the hook.** "One human, 81 days, Claude" — viral angle, front-loaded so distracted scrollers stop.
2. **The wrong-answer demo is the money shot.** Most adaptive-learning marketing claims "personalized." This shows the engine actually doing the diagnostic work.
3. **No outro music, no logo animation, no "Thanks for watching."** Authenticity beats polish on PH and HN. The audience smells produced video and discounts the claims.
4. **Specific numbers throughout.** "under 2 milliseconds, 929, over 1.4 million, $39/mo, 81 days" — concreteness reads as confidence.
5. **One human's voice.** This is the single biggest asset over every competitor.

## If something falls through

- **Can't get the wrong-answer flow to demo cleanly?** Swap the order: do the readiness gauge first (easier), then come back to the gap-detection demo at the end.
- **Voiceover-while-recording too hard?** Record screen capture silently, then add voiceover in iMovie afterward. Slightly less authentic but much easier.
- **Run out of time entirely?** Ship a 30-second silent screen recording with on-screen text instead of no video at all. The PH listing tolerates this. The Show HN post and LinkedIn post can survive without video — they're carried by the text.
