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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 praveer13 »

starfallg wrote: post #122
praveer13 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://vecto.play.naigap.com/ https://phaseworld.play.naigap.com/ https://slope-rider.play.naigap.com Three so far Repos - https://github.com/praveer13/vecto https://github.com/praveer13/slope-rider https://github.com/praveer13/phase-world

I really like the first 2, but not sure about the game mechanics of the last one. However, the graphics were nice and fluid throughout, looks great!

Yeah I am not liking third one either. Mechanics aren’t working well for me either. I might get it redesigned - maybe by gpt this time lol

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

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Post by chrisweekly »

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…

It'd be cool to add a third dimension to reveal.js decks. One of the transition animation options is "zoom", which visual effect is like going into / through the current slide. The Overview mode could be enhanced to show a 3D map (a stack of 2D layers). All kinds of fun mazes / games / interactive fiction use cases come to mind....

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

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Post by starfallg »

francozanardi wrote: post #64
starfallg wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can play around in the guestbook. I'm in it right now and you can see me editing things. Cloudflare Durable Objects are pretty cheap and I'm using it like a very basic pub/sub with each deck having it's own DO. I did some calculations and it should be well within my spend limits.

Something super small that I've noticed in the guestbook: since there're a lot of people connected, I noticed that every time I received an update, I lost the focus of my text element, so it was a little bit difficult to write something. It may be annoying if two users are working at the same time in the same project. Again, very cool project! :)

Yup, I've made a note of this and will fix it once the Show HN traffic eases off a bit. Thanks for the feedback and the kind words!

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

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Post by Chilko »

yreg wrote: post #85
calebm wrote: post #9

Awesome. 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

The draft doesn't read as a Wikipedia article – e.g. addressing the reader as 'you'. I don't think WP is the right place for this. It is supposed to be a tertiary source, not a place to promote concepts you want to see established.

The first reference (for the definition) also links directly to a blog post created by OP.

Edit: Actually 4 of the references on that wiki page link to either OPs blog, YouTube, or projects. I can see why this article was declined, however broadly an article could exist for this concept if there were other sources to build on.

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

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Post by gildas »

calebm wrote: post #9

Awesome. 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

This might interest you as well [1]. Similarly, here is an example of presentation using this format [2].

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG

[2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG/raw/...

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

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Post by starfallg »

aag wrote: post #46

What 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.

I'm still having trouble tracking this down the Bento app. There's nothing in the source on cloudflareinsights.com and nothing is connecting to that either when I inspect from Chrome. Could it be from the website? (The website is a GH pages fronted by Cloudflare)

Can you share data or show where this is so I can quickly check?

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

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Post by starfallg »

mguerville wrote: post #102

As 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

Thanks for the kind words. To collab, it's simple, go into share and click on invite, then it will save a HTML file with an invite key. Just send this to the person you want to share the session with, and they will automatically connect and join the session when they first open it in their browser.

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

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Post by luckydata »

starfallg wrote: post #97
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.

I am based in California unfortunately otherwise I would have gladly accepted.
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