Show HN: Molab, a cloud-hosted Marimo notebook workspace

(molab.marimo.io)

116 points | by akshayka 1 day ago

8 comments

  • lahuard 1 day ago
    Marimo is the future of notebooks! This solves so many problems with collaboration using notebooks. Rooting for you guys!
  • anilgulecha 1 day ago
    Hi Akshay, it isn't clear from above writeup - is this open for self-hosting (I have an education usecase)? Couldn't find anything on this in the repo.
  • sheepy 1 day ago
    TY for marimo! A realy well thought out project solving lots of jupiter pain points.
  • elashri 1 day ago
    This sounds like a good tool that would help ease the usage of adopting marimo for some of the tasks that people usually use colab for. It can be used for teaching and tutorials to share.

    I just want to ask about Privacy Policy of the cloud version because I couldn't find it.

    • akshayka 1 day ago
      Thanks! Notebooks on molab are public (but undiscoverable, like public GitHub gists), and can be shared with links. This is described here: https://marimo.io/blog/announcing-molab.
      • VoidWhisperer 1 day ago
        Is there anything you are doing to prevent these notebooks from being indexed by Google/etc? Gists will show up in google search results if they've been linked from anywhere that google happens to find. The robots.txt just has 'Allow: /'.

        I have no experience with Marimo so I guess I don't know the security model here.

  • dcreater 13 hours ago
    I guess this is a persistent version of marimo.app ?
    • akshayka 9 hours ago
      More than that. marimo.app runs in the browser with WASM. That makes for a snappy experience but is limited in RAM and what kinds of packages can be run. This runs Python on a traditional backend, letting you use any package and any more resources.
  • matsonj 1 day ago
    I was hopeful for Wasm to make this work better but it just didn't. really cool to see this available - i was wondering what the next step was.
  • countfeng 1 day ago
    I think it would be better if there was a videotutorial to explain it.
  • cantdutchthis 1 day ago
    Everyone: don't push live on a Friday. marimo: ... hold my beer
    • hmartin 1 day ago
      Its completely failed several times in the course of an hour for me :'(
      • akshayka 1 day ago
        Sorry! Did the notebook not connect to the runtime? Notebooks usually start quickly but there is variance, which we are working to tighten. If you have a notebook link/ID, we can look into it.
    • dmadisetti 1 day ago
      Everyone knows prod doesn't break on the weekends