Bento
An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
Details
- External ID
- 49008211
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Bento
- Website domain
- bento.page
- Launched
- July 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1033
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.996415770609319
- Tags
- —
- 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.
- BentoAI · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SlideMate · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Decktly · ph · 2026-09-25 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Bento · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- EditablePPT · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- CreatePPTX · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- TubeCrop · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- own.page · ph · 2026-05-25 · 664 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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