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Looks cool but let me publish before I sign up, or at least just show me a demo page. I don't like signing up for websites randomly.

edit: I guess there are examples in the explore tab; carry on! :)

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Thanks bnejad! Overall, what did you think of it?

I think its a pretty cool way to get a quick front end. I don't know exactly the market for this sort of tool but I could definitely see it being useful. One thing though, some of the examples ask for login information to a website to display some metric. This sounds like it would be a good way to steal people's information so you may want to think a bit on maybe warning users not to enter info, or have to option to view the source.

That's a great point. I was thinking about adding a 'view source' on each script's show page.

Make it an option. Someone might want to put API keys or auth tokens in a script.

Ok. I wonder if it needs to be optional if we let you create private, environment variables for your script. Wouldn't show up on view source. Or maybe we do both :).

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