How did you discover NiceGUI?

[evnchn]

Cause

I find it strange that there's not a lot of YouTube videos introducing NiceGUI, unlike other web frameworks, even Python-based ones.

Not only that, I can't recall (for the life of me) how I stumbled into NiceGUI either. I only know the first version I used was 1.2.4. I tried to search my Google Activity history, but the first result was "nicegui.io form input" on 3 Apr 2023, 16:15, so certainly I must have known about NiceGUI before then, but how?

Hypothesis

My hypothesis is that, people magically stumble into NiceGUI 🪄. And I'd like to know if it's right or wrong.

Survey

So, I'd like to do a poll and see how did you discover NiceGUI.

Impact

The result of this poll can potentially make NiceGUI more reachable, if we work to enhance it.

If none of the choices match, then comment below. Thanks!

[falkoschindler]

I find it strange that there's not a lot of YouTube videos introducing NiceGUI

Me too. Once in a while there are videos (partly AI-generated) with almost no views. One major channel, Arjan Codes, mentioned us once (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiLgG4CabPo), but didn't really see the full potential. In other videos Arjan still promotes Streamlit or other less powerful GUI frameworks. And Python Bytes covered it two years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr4swJVdPys). There's still potential for promoting it to a greater audience.

[thevinchi]

I found nicegui about a year ago while evaluating streamlit and looking for better alternatives due to the limitations with streamlit. I believe it was a comment on one of their GitHub issues made by someone who was already a fan of nicegui.

[evnchn]

Well I heard some Streamlit fans having some friction converting to NiceGUI since it's different (#21, as well as personal experience)

I imagine with #4688 can we make an auto-converter (with decent accuracy?) to convert existing Streamlit scripts to NiceGUI.

Since I'd imagine what NiceGUI can do is a superset of Streamlit (I think so?), this should be doable.

@falkoschindler then some questions:

• Do you think it's doable? Is NiceGUI superset of Streamlit in terms of functionality?
• Is this service for free or at a fee?
• Who's paying for the AI credits?

[falkoschindler]

Is NiceGUI superset of Streamlit in terms of functionality?

I think there are still some Streamlit elements without a NiceGUI counterpart. But I don't know Streamlit by heart.

Do you think it's doable? Is this service for free or at a fee? Who's paying for the AI credits?

It's hard to answer questions about a hypothetical service. In simple cases you can simply ask an AI of your choice, in other cases it might not work at all.

[evnchn]

If it isn't obvious, I want to make some NiceGUI-related LLM service, which can include an generic coding agent, or perhaps a Streamlit converter.

Therefore I'm asking about the paid/free nature and also the source.

I guess I can use my university's but I'd quickly run out of money... 💸