I'm working on 'SpookyLoop'. The goal is to make it easier to see progress on long-running jobs/renders while on the go. I use it frequently when I compute big simulations but would like to see if it's useful for other projects. It can compute the completion time with a time-prediction, plus or minus a risk margin, and you can also set it to send you a message if your process crashes.
The Mac menubar app is a little buggy but the code versions seem reliable so far.
working demo, totally free, no login required
http://142.93.117.219:5000/
Interesting work! I enjoyed reading some of your blog posts— I have some gastroenterology projects that required tons of manual rotoscoping/segmentation and could have benefited from a faster collaborative pipeline. We used hasty.ai—I’d love to hear your thoughts on their work vs yours. I’m also on some projects doing audio spectrogram segmentation if you have some software that can handle audio ‘images’, that’s another space with a gap in the industry. I haven’t found the equivalent outside of VIA/Audacity/Praat for labeling.
I made a mobile progress bar tool that pings your phone when your code is e.g.
-Done
-80% done
-if the CPU for a given process drops below 10%
The CPU tool works for Mac OS installers and anything else. Works decently on Linux too. I call my tool SpookyLoop:
http://142.93.117.219:5000/
The article teases at the indeterminism of ops on different computers, and also the halting problem at the theoretical level. But an exact estimate isn’t a necessary experience. I contend that the ultimate UX is going for a walk and doing something else afc with some confidence that you’ll be ping’ed when it’s time to return. Beyond that, predicting time-to-complete becomes an opportunity to create trust in a brand. I’d much prefer a text message when the install is done than checking my TeamViewer every few minutes while on the go. If a software can provide that, I’d value that more than a data driven estimate that still might be wildly off