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

(molab.marimo.io)

122 points | by akshayka 4 days ago ago

21 comments

  • lahuard 4 days ago ago

    Marimo is the future of notebooks! This solves so many problems with collaboration using notebooks. Rooting for you guys!

  • anilgulecha 4 days ago 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 3 days ago ago

    TY for marimo! A realy well thought out project solving lots of jupiter pain points.

  • elashri 4 days ago 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 4 days ago 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 4 days ago 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.

  • matsonj 4 days ago 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.

  • dcreater 3 days ago ago

    I guess this is a persistent version of marimo.app ?

    • akshayka 3 days ago 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.

  • countfeng 4 days ago ago

    I think it would be better if there was a videotutorial to explain it.

  • cantdutchthis 4 days ago ago

    Everyone: don't push live on a Friday. marimo: ... hold my beer

    • hmartin 4 days ago ago

      Its completely failed several times in the course of an hour for me :'(

      • dmadisetti 2 days ago ago

        Hey, if your name had an accent, workspace creation should have failed

        Not sure how we missed that in testing. But it should be good to go now

      • akshayka 4 days ago 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 4 days ago ago

      Everyone knows prod doesn't break on the weekends