I really like it, you are a genius
Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
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Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#102As someone who makes a living in PowerPoint but loves tech and FOSS, congrats. I'm not sure I fully follow how collaborating works, you may want to write an explainer that assumes nearly zero engineering knowledge. Looking forward to the docx and xlsx version, I'll follow on gh to stay up to date
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#103This looks like a great idea, thanks for sharing it!
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#104Great project. But please check the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database)
Bento is perfect reasonable name for an all in one solution - no?
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#105Hey just wanted to say I think this fills an extremely common niche in the corporate world. There are a couple of teams at my company who switched to some variant of fancy html/javascript and away from either cloud or desktop copies of off-the-shelf presentation or visualization software because they were tired of bugs not being fixed or custom features not getting added
Internal IT fiefdoms everywhere should be very afraid
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#106I really loved when this was a feature of the Opera browser, before they went chromium.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#107Hey just wanted to say I think this fills an extremely common niche in the corporate world. There are a couple of teams at my company who switched to some variant of fancy html/javascript and away from either cloud or desktop copies of off-the-shelf presentation or visualization software because they were tired of bugs not being fixed or custom features not getting added Internal IT fiefdoms everywhere should be very…
Exactly what we've seen in our company. A lot of techies create these awesome web-app presentations which look awesome and wows everybody, but then some poor person that has Claude but not Claude Code (we somehow decided it was only for techies/SWEs) would then be scratching their heads on what to do because some figures are wrong and they need to update it before the very-important-steerco in the afternoon.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#108I'm thinking of installing a blank bento for users as a pwa (using browser install site as app), script the author name etc and then make the file read only so they are forced to save as, for users to use as a standalone powerpoint tool. Maybe you can implement this into the project, a blank default read only (except author details) that installs as a pwa.
I thought about make it a PWA, but I'm still on the fence about hosting in general. Will probably have to host in order to deal with enterprise use-cases, but I just want to make something simple and cool for now. Thanks for the feedback, will explore a bit about what people will want in a hosted solution and how it can keep these principles I think makes it special.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#109I love this.
I hope you don't get cease and desisted by MS for mentioning PowerPoint.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#110I love it! I will absolutely be trying this out and following along.
For a long time I've used draw.io for making diagrams, and found it clever that you can effectively save your document as an iframe blob of editor + file (though in their case, the editor is not stored in the file, a web connection is required to load the editor codebase. I've wished that could be the primary use case and this is basically what I'd imagined!