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This is great! I have a lot of tools built in notebooks that I'd like to be able to share with non-technical collaborators, and have been procrastinating building a UI in Flask or Django as I'm really not interested in front-end stuff. This is a fun and simple way to deploy that won't be a distraction from collection and analysis I actually enjoy. I look forward to using it!

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The Mercury framework was designed to make notebooks sharing easy. You don't need to build UI. Just define the widgets in the YAML header. Widgets are directly connected to variables in Python code. You can share notebook with non-technical users and hide the code (show-code: False). The user can tweak widgets and execute the notebook.

Additional features for sharing:

- user can download notebook as PDF or HTML,

- you can schedule notebook execution, and send executed notebook as PDF attachment in email notification,

- adding login view to notebooks is simple, just add `share: private` to YAML

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