Comment by luke-stanley

You've got a great start, I agree that your swap-in interface for tqdm is very important for migration, and so you solved at the right level first, and you've found an interesting problem / solution area with beautiful execution.

I can totally see a "social layer for progress bars" and "Deep Research for progress bars" as valuable things to do on top of it. Like how decision markets and search fit in. Where is reputation and trust? Is metadata encryption needed?

There are developer UX improvements possible of course, as with most things. How exactly parent and child relationships and completions are best represented for an intuitive UX is an interesting circle to square while keeping a simple tqdm API.

I'd love it if this was open-source or zero-knowledge, though that may be a bit of a loaded term when actually wanting client side title / description metadata encryption. I guess you'd want a client doing simple but robust encryption on the metadata, but probably not progress values (or at least not at first, for sanity).

Any plans for a MCP API? It's pretty easy these days.