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Bento

An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Details

External ID
49008211
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Bento
Website domain
bento.page
Launched
July 22, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
1033
Upvotes percentile
0.996415770609319
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Over the past few months, our team has been building more and more slidedecks using web frontend technologies with coding harnesses like Claude Code, but a common complaint is to make even small edits we need to edit the code either manually or via the harness.To avoid this loop, I ended up creating Bento, a single HTML file with everything you need in a slide tool including animations and shared editing. There's no install or cloud login, everything works offline. The default deck is around 560 KB and it doesn't need to fetch anything once you got it.Open it in a browser and then you can edit, present, print and save. Share it via email or via Airdrop and all they need is a browser to edit, present and also do live collab on the slides. Drop it in to Claude or ChatGPT to transform existing pptx files into Bento slides. There is no cloud involved, only an encrypted blind relay to allow for shared editing. The relay doesn't see any of the data.Check it out at https://bento.page/slides/ which takes you straight to the editor.Go to https://bento.page/guestbook/ to try out the live guestbook to experience share editing / collab.There is also a gallery with some sample decks on the website - https://bento.page/All the code is MIT licensed and you can find it here - https://github.com/nyblnet/bento . I used reveal.js with several other libraries (including some homegrown ones), and Claude Code.

Enrichment

Theme
document and PDF utility tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
B2B
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
collaborative presentation editor in html
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Building a single-file self-contained HTML slide deck with in-browser editing and viewing is an ideal front-end project easily assembled with AI.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, Bento (database), iamsingle.app

Concerns raised: Security risk: malware spread through compressed apps, Lack of centralized directory for discovery, Browser support gaps for File System Access API

Feature requests: Export and open in PowerPoint, Dark mode, LAN sharing with stripped remote service features, AI integration (ClaudeCode/Codex) for slide design, Extension/plugin with agnostic backend

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 32 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1 of 33 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 210 days after the earliest competitor.

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