# Streamlit

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Streamlit and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Python library for turning scripts into web apps quickly, praised for fast prototyping. Critics say it is limited and hits hard ceilings.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast UI prototyping for data apps (4 comments): "As simple to build and deploy as Excel, but with the right data types, the right UI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197057)) "Hidden game changers are Gradio/Streamlit for easy UI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700395)) "It feels closer to sketching than programming." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578611))
- Still widely used and growing (2 comments): "As of two months ago, Streamlit has 1M+ MAD. It's still growing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023428)) "I think its death has been exaggerated." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023013))
- Go-to choice for small Python apps (2 comments): "I built a small local Streamlit-based chat app" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631684)) "using Streamlit or Shiny is the way to go" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747719))

## What people warn about

- Limited; hits hard ceilings (3 comments): "These have hard ceilings and there’s only so much you can work around the model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269131)) "Streamlit seems really nice but super super limited in what it can do." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476102)) "Oh it can't do this particular thing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122491))
- Poor Python UI/UX, dismissed (3 comments): "I can actually build nice UIs as a traditional ML engineer (no more streamlit crap)." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207272)) "Snowflake bought streanlit (a bad python UI/UX) for 800 million in 2022." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290524)) "streanlit (a bad python UI/UX)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291357))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend
- [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Streamlit", https://hackerapproved.com/p/streamlit/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).