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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.

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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

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