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Re: Show HN: Interval, CLIs in browser with no front end code

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alexarena wrote: post #8
anitil wrote: post #7

This is really nice and I love the idea of giving non-technical users access to internal tooling. For python scripts I've had some success with Gooey that turns an ArgParser description into a usable (if ugly) UI running locally. At some point I tried to turn it into a web front end (probably called Wooey) but it ended up in the same pile of half-baked projects I have floating around.

Haha love the name Wooey for that. Also, very cool to see other people exploring the same space. We experimented w/ a similar arg parsing system, but ended up w/ our current approach so that it's possible to build multi-step workflows that conditionally show different inputs at different stages of the workflow.

Yeah this is far more slick that what I was building. It's such a nice niche because I keep finding that there are easy fixes around me but it's hard for me to make it available for other people

Re: Show HN: Interval, CLIs in browser with no front end code

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Post by alexarena »

raviparikh wrote: post #10
melony wrote: post #9

Your competitors -> https://www.airplane.dev/ , https://windmill.dev

Thanks for linking to Airplane! I'm one of the founders. I actually gave Alex from Interval a demo of our product about a year ago when they were working on something different. Maybe they got some inspiration from that conversation. Best of luck to them!

Both of those seem great, we just have a slightly different approach, primarily around our model for integrating into your codebase and how we collect input/display output. Ravi, hopefully you recall the context for that call was us investing in our prototype version of Interval vs. use something like Airplane that was being built commercially. Thoroughly enjoyed our chat but just want to be clear that our take on this problem predates our conversation and was disclosed during it :)

Re: Show HN: Interval, CLIs in browser with no front end code

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Post by eddd-ddde »

MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #2

I’m very excited by the idea of seamlessly providing a front-end for interactive scripts. (I have a similar idea that I’ve wanted to build for a while.) Is that an accurate description of what you’re trying to build? Calling Interval a “CLI in the browser” made me think you had a command line in the browser, something like xterm.JS. I don’t have anything else to say, I think the idea speaks for itself.

I interpreted "CLI in the browser" the same way, seems like a slightly wrong description.

Other than that I love the concept; someone like me who sucks at creating UI's really benefits from something like this (:

Re: Show HN: Interval, CLIs in browser with no front end code

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Post by alexarena »

jreynoldsdev wrote: post #15

Super interesting idea and great documentation. What software do you use for your user docs?

Thanks! We just switched to Docusaurus, would absolutely recommend. We started w/ a separate marketing site and docs site, but since our team are basically all engineers, we just decided to use Docusaurus for everything.
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