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Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

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I like it. I used Claude and Qwen to build single file HTML decks in the last few months. The nicest thing with HTML decks is that you can not only ship the decks but integrate your prototype/demos in the same file integrated into the flow of your deck. Would love to see a feature like that.

Thanks. That would be a cool feature, and definitely possible. Currently it's already got a feature where you can export and import it's data JSON. We just need to find a way to squeeze a whole frontend in.

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! It's a project I did in my spare time and it's made with a lot of MIT licensed JS libraries, so it's natural to make this MIT licensed as well. I don't know even know how anybody would start to monetise something local-first like this in this day and age.

Did you chew on monetization at all? I'm building something similar but for bio-imaging scientists, where I've packed everything I can into a single HTML (and even some modern segmentation models like Cellpose3 and StarDist that fit under Cloudflare's 25MB free tier limit haha. Maybe I'm thinking too far ahead but I'm hoping maybe I can cover the (future?) compute costs by charging for the heavy duty ML that would ha…

If you have a backend that does processing, I'm sure you can monetise it. But for Bento, the whole idea is to forgo the backend, so I didn't really think about it that much. If an enterprise version comes, I'm sure there is a way to integrate stuff like SSO that you can charge for.

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

#34

This is very neat! For people clicking on a link to some slides that someone shared, it seems like starting out in viewing mode with a prominent edit button might be better than starting out in edit mode?

Thanks for the feedback, that's a really good idea! I'll try to roll it out shortly!

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

#35
post #27

This blew my socks off. Theres something so satisfying about knowing everything I need is in a single file. I know the caveat is *1. Have a modern browser*, but this is my go to format when trying out random ideas. I even have a macro called `try` that sends me directly to a new folder called `scratch/YYYYMMDD_ `. Great work! I hope to see more and more apps like this in the spirit of "Toss it all into context"

Thanks, you're right, that is the achilles heel. Most of the functionality actually is in the browser. We're just running fancy scripting on it.

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

#36

This is very neat! For people clicking on a link to some slides that someone shared, it seems like starting out in viewing mode with a prominent edit button might be better than starting out in edit mode?

Thanks for the feedback, that's a really good idea! I'll try to roll it out shortly!

Also, viewing slides on a tablet, I don’t see a way to open speaker notes since I can’t “press the S key.” These instructions should probably be different if you’re not on desktop.

Maybe display speaker notes by default if the screen is in portrait mode?

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback, that's a really good idea! I'll try to roll it out shortly!

Also, viewing slides on a tablet, I don’t see a way to open speaker notes since I can’t “press the S key.” These instructions should probably be different if you’re not on desktop. Maybe display speaker notes by default if the screen is in portrait mode?

The slideshow button is a split pill, you can open it there where there is this tiny up arrow that opens up a drop down menu. But on tablet it probably doesn't do what you want it to as it was built for multi-screen use on the desktop.

I'll have a think on this tonight and I'm sure we can do a tablet speaker notes mode.

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

#39
This is so cool! When I initially saw the title I was wondering how this is different from SlideJS or similar, but this is really cool and now I'm wondering if this could (at least in theory) be integrated into something like Pandoc as an output option?

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

#40
this project is a monument to the HUGE failure of the Workspace team at Google to enable agent editing in a way that makes sense.

Google is really shitting the bed in all the way that matters on GenAI and being an ex employee of Cloud I am not in the least surprised about it, just really sad.

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