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

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Post by starfallg »

inanutshellus wrote: post #90
starfallg wrote: post #2

Hi, 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…

The concept that's MAGICAL in Reveal.js is vertical slides. e.g. https://revealjs.com/#/2/1 You just make one slide deck with lightweight high-abstraction slides and depending on the audience you just... hit the down arrow. bam. now you're inside the tech slides. no nerdy tech guys? sweet, don't hit down on slide 3. Instead you're with the marketing guys, so hit down on slide 5. Anyway - looks like you got rid of tha…

That's a great point. I went down the state slide route in order to handle a similar type of use-case, but I'll look into this and see if we can incorporate that somehow. It seems like a really elegant way to implement some state slide use cases. And thanks for the heads-up on this!

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

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Post by starfallg »

saghm wrote: post #81
starfallg wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right, but I guess a lot of people recognise PowerPoint as a brand. Maybe I can bill this as better-than-powerpoint!

FactorialPoint, your slideshows improve even faster than an exponential!

Hehe, if we go in the other direction we can call it basepoint.

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

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Post by starfallg »

vonnieda wrote: post #56

This is really clever and is taking a direction I hope to see more software taking! Totally self contained is awesome. Well done!

Thanks! I hope it's good and practical enough to be actual useful (and used regularly by pepole).

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

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Post by starfallg »

shaism wrote: post #45

Awesome. Perfect for editing with agents and sharing with coworkers. - Even works well on mobile. - Embedding images and videos also works flawlessly.

I'm a bit worried on the UX on mobile, so I did some testing to get at least the basic working! Video also worked better than expected, I love how the video background in the Orbital deck turned out! Thanks for the feedback!

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

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Post by starfallg »

luckydata wrote: post #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.

I like a bit of good gossip. If you're based in London, let's go out for a beer.

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

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Post by fh67 »

I'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.

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

Love it. Like some others here, I've been making html presentations with code-agents and they come out really nice. Other alternatives for that suit different purposes are these:

- slidev markdown-based slides, I often have a code-agent make these. https://github.com/slidevjs/slidev

- typst slides are great looking too, especially with math etc. Again easy for agents to do

One minor nit: Based on the title, I thought this was literally a tool that had something to do with PowerPoint, but "PowerPoint" is used here as a synonym for "Presentation", which is ironic/unfortunate given how many dislike PowerPoint.

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

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Post by ethin »

starfallg wrote: post #86
ethin wrote: post #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?

Thanks! I'm not familiar with pandoc but I think you can get some data out of the Bento JSON but is not going to be very rich. May be easier to render it to PDF (which works well in Chrome) first.

Maybe? I'm not too familiar with Pandoc's internals so I couldn't say. (I do know it supports templates so maybe you could pull it off like that?) Although I'm wondering if you could just have the JSON as input and then you use pandoc as the transformer and it generates the full HTML file? An interesting idea for sure.
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