bento

Yes, Keynote is (was!) my go to. But it's been years since I've been presenter guy so I may end up with a vibe-presented custom solution if I did it today. I've used and like https://github.com/nyblnet/bento, but more and more I'm just going to self-contained html because the effort in to get what I want is just so low.

This is the approach Bento took I believe (similar idea, but just for decks): https://github.com/nyblnet/bento. Saw it on HN a few weeks back

>This looks great. >"Unbundling BI" is absolutely where things are headed now that more people have agents, coding agents, agent computers to help with work. Agreed. Coupled with bento[0] for slide decks, I think this type of project is a very welcome development, helping us move away from walled gardens and proprietary software suites. [0] https://github.com/nyblnet/bento

This doc goes into more detail - https://github.com/nyblnet/bento/blob/main/docs/security.md But basically when your bento HTML first gets saved, it generates a number of keys used for managing the permissions to join the Cloudflare DO. You can then send out an invite deck with a key that allow other people to join (with their own generated keys). With this architecture, you can revoke people's access, as well as giving them only read-access to the sharing session for example.

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 clou