Show HN: 1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executable in 1 click

Re:Show HN: 1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executabl... by sireat on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:44AM (#25238212)

Nice to see another player in the crowded hosted Jupyter notebooks space!

Still very far from smooth (<10) click experience.

The workflow took a while to get started:

Manually create account (no external auth option such as Github?) -> verify account -> create notebook -> set pw for notebook -> run notebook

I did all that only to find that no required libraries are there.... not even Pandas?

By comparision Google Colab onboarding is much smoother and you know you are getting a working Tensorflow, Pandas, Plotly etc out the box. Sure you pay the privacy tax to Google for this smoothness.

My biases:

  - I've installed and maintain Littlest Jupyter Hub instance for teammates at my organization.
  - I teach using local Anaconda installation. 
  - I use myBinder and Google Colab.

If I did not have a smooth experience I would imagine someone starting out would have a harder time.

At the very least you should curate the packages so they run out of the box, without fiddling with requirements.txt, yaml, pip install, conda etc.

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Re:Show HN: 1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executabl... by sanketsarang on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:58AM (#25243685)

This is good feedback. Thank you for documenting your experience. Basis this we concluded on the following.

Adding features:

  - Login with Google & Github accounts
  - Changing default type setting to "Data Science Notebook"
  - A package library with one-click install

Changing features:

  - Simpler UX (reduced clicks required)
  - Removing the mandatory plan selection - Starting every user on free plan by default

Anything else you recommend we should do?

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Re:Show HN: 1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executabl... by sanketsarang on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:02AM (#25243699)

Since you are an active user of myBinder and Colab, I am tempted to ask. What are those features we can add that will make you let go of myBinder and Colab?

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