Local-First Software
The office file that refuses to be rented
Bento challenges the rented office suite model by putting a full slide editor into a self-contained, eternally openable HTML file. It's local-first, AI-friendly, and impossible to kill by pulling a server plug.
Emmanuel Fabrice Omgbwa Yasse AI-assisted
2026-07-29 · 1 min read
Office documents used to be things you owned. Now they are things you rent, locked inside a cloud, behind a login, readable only as long as a company keeps its servers on. Bento takes the other path.
It is a PowerPoint alternative compressed into a single, self-contained HTML file. The file carries its own viewer, presenter, and editor. Open bento.page/slides in any browser, and you are running the full editor on a starter deck that functions as a feature
- Source : Bento homepage and README
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