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

(molab.marimo.io)

122 points | by akshayka 11 days ago

8 comments

  • lahuard 11 days ago
    Marimo is the future of notebooks! This solves so many problems with collaboration using notebooks. Rooting for you guys!
  • anilgulecha 11 days 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.
  • elashri 11 days 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 11 days 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 11 days 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.

  • sheepy 11 days ago
    TY for marimo! A realy well thought out project solving lots of jupiter pain points.
  • matsonj 11 days 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 11 days ago
    I think it would be better if there was a videotutorial to explain it.
  • dcreater 10 days ago
    I guess this is a persistent version of marimo.app ?
    • akshayka 10 days 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.
  • cantdutchthis 11 days ago
    Everyone: don't push live on a Friday. marimo: ... hold my beer
    • hmartin 11 days ago
      Its completely failed several times in the course of an hour for me :'(
      • akshayka 11 days 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 9 days 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

    • dmadisetti 11 days ago
      Everyone knows prod doesn't break on the weekends