Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in terminals and browsers

Re:Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in... by clav88 on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:12PM (#45217425)

Thanks for trying it! The link works for me. The progress bar shows 1% now that there's 1 comment and should update to 2% after my reply ;)

I'm happy to clean up the source a bit and put it on GitHub if people like it and prefer to it themselves. I thought I'd host it myself under a short, memorable domain, so people can easily try it out and share short links to their progress bars.

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Re:Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in... by mathfailure on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:35PM (#45217522)

Oh, it was an error on my side, the link actually works.

If you are happy to share the code - I think quite some people would be happy. The openness doesn't guarantee, but usually leads to better security, performance, etc.

It is very nice of you to provide such a service (and for free, as I see), but your docs says we, users, better not update stuff faster than once per second and that's quite a big limitation for some big companies with lots of processes to track (which probably can't be grouped together into a single batch update as your docs suggest to do).

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Re:Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in... by clav88 on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:59PM (#45217646)

Yes, definitely. The service could easily be scaled and rate limits can be increased if users are willing to pay for. Self-hosting is a good alternative, as you already suggested.

I'll work on cleaning up the code, adding some dev documentation and releasing it on GitHub when I find some time. Perhaps this weekend already!

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