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by d4rkp4ttern 1749 days ago
Streamlit is great for demos but not for building a product.
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Notebooks aren't great for building a product, either.
I am waiting for JetBrain’s DataSpell which supposedly combined notebooks with IDE goodies.

https://www.jetbrains.com/dataspell/

Indeed! I find working in notebooks to be singularly unpleasant, mainly because of lack of full IDE support. Others have deeper reasons to dislike notebooks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19859913

As a note to OP, messaging your solution as “turn your notebook into an app” may not be optimal — you will loose many who abhor working in notebooks.

Just trying it out now, but why is it not good for products?
The main appeal is the low effort to coolness ratio. But layouts are limited and you hit a wall if you try to implement even simple interactions. State management used to be rough but maybe it has improved lately