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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!

I wouldn't say I'm a genius. I do think it's cool though and slightly impressed by all the positive feedback. Really glad you like it though!

Thanks! I'm about 1/3 towards my goal of 1k GH stars as of right now!

Thanks. I hope so too. It seem to be squarely in fair use and there is no real chance anybody would mix this up with MS Powerpoint (I would think).

Oh! I didn't know about slidev before. I like how it can embed Vue.js components. Typst kinda looks like LaTeX. Thanks for sharing.

I thought about whether to use Slidedeck Tool in the title, but powerpoint won out mainly because how often people talk about presentations as powerpoints.

Let me know how you get on with the Claude skill. I haven't done nearly as much testing as I should have with it! Thanks for the feedback!

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!

I checked it out and it looks cool. It's a much more general platform than Bento. If you can make it do presentations, I'm sure the actual quality of the output would be better than Bento as it's React as compared to reveal.js.

Yeah, unless you were using the guestbook which was being hammered, I'm afraid you are right. I use Firefox, but it's not my main browser and I must confess I didn't do much testing on it. I'll have to look to see how we can improve performance on FF.

I used Opera for a while, but I didn't recall it doing this. Do you have a link to show what it was able to do?

Thanks! As a avid user of draw.io, I considered this model, but ultimately I thought that it's best to start with a single local file. Maybe later when people ask for enterprise-type features it'd make sense to host it. It's definitely needed to do stuff like SSO.

I thought about make it a PWA, but I'm still on the fence about hosting in general. Will probably have to host in order to deal with enterprise use-cases, but I just want to make something simple and cool for now. Thanks for the feedback, will explore a bit about what people will want in a hosted solution and how it can keep these principles I think makes it special.

Exactly what we've seen in our company. A lot of techies create these awesome web-app presentations which look awesome and wows everybody, but then some poor person that has Claude but not Claude Code (we somehow decided it was only for techies/SWEs) would then be scratching their heads on what to do because some figures are wrong and they need to update it before the very-important-steerco in the afternoon.

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

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!

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

Thanks, people asked about monetization but seriously Github stars is really all it's about.

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

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!

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.

Just an update to this phone home issue. I haven't found anything showing that this should be normal behaviour. I'm thinking this may be due to cloudflare challenges due to the traffic spike. In addition to the DO, the whole website sits behind a Cloudflare proxy.

Will keep chipping away at this and update as I learn more.

Yup, I'm trying to see if we can add arbitrary JS. I think it may be possible, but would take a bit longer to test out different approaches. However I guess the main target audience for this is coders that interact with non-coders when doing presentations, and I think currently this approach is sufficient.

Yeah, upgrades are pretty seamless so far as the JSON format for the slide data is pretty forgiving. You can also export and reimport the data. It's in the split pill next to Save.

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

Thanks! If you need anybody to test and feedback, I'll give it a go.

Thanks! I had to reset the guestbook because it's being spammed. It's on epoch 4 now, hopefully people will be better behaved moving forward!

1. Yes, that's a good point that somebody else raised also. It went pass testing as I was only testing with 1 or 2 other people at once. Will fix this tonight.

2. Yeah, agreed and fair point. But I don't write well and I don't have time between day job and being a dad. Will try to fix this gradually.

Thanks! That's a really good point. I used Cloudflare DO as it was elegant and convenient, but no reason why we can't run a small daemon to handle the same. I'll work on this later in the week.

Thanks! It's also my first submission to HN after reading and commenting on here for the last 7 years!

Thanks for raising that. It might be in the standard cloudflare/actors SDK I used for Cloudflare Durable Objects. I'll try to disable this behavour and if we couldn't, we'll rip out DO and replace it with something that doesn't phone home. Apologies I wasn't thorough enough here.

The slide resume behaviour is definitely a bug, I'll take a stab at it shortly.

The swipe left on first slide is a feature though, its to help mobile users get back to the editor easily.