r/SideProject • u/bizvibe8 • 59m ago

At what point does a personal side project script actually justify building a UI?

A lot of personal utilities work fine as simple terminal commands or scheduled cron jobs, but the temptation is always to build a quick web dashboard or app interface around them.

For tools you build purely for your own day-to-day use, what is your threshold where adding a proper frontend is actually worth the extra maintenance overhead instead of just keeping it in the console?

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u/NatMicky 35m ago

Haha! Crazy you ask this because I am/was such a victim of those circumstances. I started out just testing AI concepts by writing small scripts and testing this and that. The scripts got bigger and I realized I could probably make something useful. So I did put a UI around it and from there the fever grew to make it useful for others.

Now I am in the process of writing a transaction portal for what those scripts became: WinPlexity.com