This is amazing. I also think this will become more common. I feel there is a lot of software that can just be served locally via html/typescript/react etc and even have local state. There's just not been an economic incentive till now. I am personally using kimi k3 to create a mobile friendly set of games, starting from math like linear algebra to quantum physics - neurodivergent friendly, completely local state, se…
Thanks! If you need anybody to test and feedback, I'll give it a go.
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)
#72What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it. One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.com beacon.
By ambitious and impressive do you mean for Claude?
Because while cool this is clearly heavily vibe coded.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#73Awesome. I've been trying to promote this kind of Single-File Web Apps as a concept - feel free to add this to the proposed Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Single_File_Web_Apps
mdwiki [0] would probably qualify. Disclaimer, I created+released it in 2013. I always jokingly called it the first true single-page application - as it was a single, offline-capable .html file with all images, icons, styles etc. inlined in the same .html file.
[0]: https://mdwiki.info
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#74What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it. One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.com beacon.
By ambitious and impressive do you mean for Claude? Because while cool this is clearly heavily vibe coded.
I'm don't care. If it's good, it's good.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#75This is amazing. I also think this will become more common. I feel there is a lot of software that can just be served locally via html/typescript/react etc and even have local state. There's just not been an economic incentive till now. I am personally using kimi k3 to create a mobile friendly set of games, starting from math like linear algebra to quantum physics - neurodivergent friendly, completely local state, se…
Yeah, I was just discussing with a co-worker the concept of a hybrid document where editing controls and the content all exist in a single HTML file (prior implementations include various wikis such as: https://feather.wiki/ ) --- makes one wonder what an SVG or spreadsheet implementation might look like.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#76Hi, I'm the creator of Bento. Just wanted to share a bit more about how I created it beyond what's in Github. The file contains more or less two sections. There is a plain block of JSON near the top of the file which is the slide data. You can read, grep, or point a harness at it. The app itself is in a base64 blob that loads through a small shim which deflates in the browser with DecompressionStream, which keeps the…
I would call this a slide show not powerpoint mostly because making it work with the satanic office formats is a path to hell. Hopefully simpler formats like this will become the norm and the old ones can die.
The term "powerpoint" has been genericized in the common vernacular to mean any electronic slide show, like kleenex for tissues and sellotape/scotch tape for transparent adhesive tape.
It might not have reached legal generic status but just about any working professional will understand what you mean if you refer to "making a powerpoint deck" even if you don't use the actual Microslop product.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#77What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it. One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.com beacon.
Just an update to this phone home issue. I haven't found anything showing that this should be normal behaviour. I'm thinking this may be due to cloudflare challenges due to the traffic spike. In addition to the DO, the whole website sits behind a Cloudflare proxy.
Will keep chipping away at this and update as I learn more.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#78Awesome. I've been trying to promote this kind of Single-File Web Apps as a concept - feel free to add this to the proposed Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Single_File_Web_Apps
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#79Awesome. I've been trying to promote this kind of Single-File Web Apps as a concept - feel free to add this to the proposed Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Single_File_Web_Apps
Ilograph diagrams can be exported to standalone HTML files (like this example: [0]). Coincidentally, they also have slides (kind of) and clock in at around 560KB.
[0] https://www.ilograph.com/demo/intelligentDocumentProcessing....