A browser-based viewer for Office Open XML documents

mathiaswp 52 points 13 comments September 01, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)

majorchord

appears to be vibe-coded to me

pseudosavant

This is rendering my files really well! I'd love to see Codex adopt this for its Office file rendering. I've been working on a markdown-to-pptx tool lately, and certain things like tables or specific master slides don't quite render 100% accurate there. Missing table formatting or completely wrong font sizes. But they look 99% perfect here (I noticed one numbered list that didn't have enough whitespace between the number and the text). It rendered a really long and complex documentation Word file perfectly though.

BrandiATMuhkuh

This project is super cool. And it shows what agent factories can do. However I’m not sure how well it’s protected against malicious tickets/actors. Each time I found a bug. I (Claude code, let’s be real) post a detailed bug report. And this project usually fixes it in less than 24h. So now, I have an agent pulling the newest changes each day checking if my issues is fixed. It’s so much fun. Btw: I have a very similar experience with the Mastra project.

yuanBuilds

This looks promising to me. I like the logo and the git commits definitely show they are crafting this. I wonder how can we identify ambitious, AI-assisted projects in a quick way.

shevy-java

People critisize npm, but npm is widespread. Popularity does beat many other things. Edit: Oops, did not notice it was AI slop generated. They really need to add disclaimers on top of such projects. That's really bad.

phonon

Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436863

WhyNotHugo

This renders OOXML (Office Open XML), not to be confused with OpenOffice.org XML, standardised by ISO as OpenDocument Format.

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