Show HN: Guish – A GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines

[williamcotton]

https://github.com/williamcotton/guish

guish is a dynamic data pipeline UI that allows users to visually construct and execute complex command-line pipelines. It provides an intuitive interface for chaining together various Unix commands and custom plugins, making it easier to build and understand data processing workflows. It also features optional LLM support for updating pipelines with a natural language interface.

[ffsm8]

Oof, this reminds me of similar tooling from the early 2010s, so I'm gonna be super original and make the same joke people did back then: "damn, that's like automating heart surgery using a chainsaw, you're definitely gonna be quick" ( ◔ ‿ ◔ )

The homepage and screenshots look neat! I would've expected a link for the man page of the command though, but maybe that's just not visible on the screenshots

[williamcotton → ffsm8]

A link to the man page would be a great addition and something I'll look to add this week.

Thank you for taking the time to look at the project and providing some meaningful feedback!

I would love to see some of these similar tools that you speak of. Do you happen to remember the names of any of them?

[klimperfix]

This looks really useful! I'll definitely give it a try at the next opportunity. One improvement I would suggest for the future is adding an option for a locally running LLM, such as Llama or Mistral.

[williamcotton → klimperfix]

That would be very simple to implement and a reason why I didn’t think of it is probably because llama runs so slowly on my machine!

Thank you for the feedback and the suggestion.