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

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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?   submitted by   /u/bizvibe8 [link]   [comments]