Nothing could make me switch from Keynote to web-based slides. Then, I did! And as a WebSocket geek, I realized it opens up new opportunities! Here's my contribution to making your web presentations beautifully interactive.

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Martian Chronicles

A developer shares how switching to web-based presentations (Reveal.js and Slidev) opened the door to real-time audience interactivity. The result is slide-quiz, an open-source plugin that adds live audience quizzes—multiple choice with bar charts and free-text with word clouds—to web presentations. It uses WebSockets via AnyCable Plus (free tier, up to 2,000 connections) and deploys with a few serverless functions to Netlify or Vercel. A CLI (`npx create-slide-quiz`) handles setup, scaffolding, and optional deployment. Planned features include more question types, persistent results, and additional deployment targets.

Web slides are web apps: live interactivity for Reveal.js and Slidev—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

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