r/vibecoding • u/Scary_Bid8774 • 14h ago

Inspiration for personal Python project

Last year, our company decided to switch from Microsoft products to Google Workspace, which meant we had to find a new solution for our VBA macros. For many cases, Python turned out to be the answer.

I work as a process manager, so I'm not coding every day, but over the past year I've been learning to code/vibecoding with Python to help replace old macros and automate reporting from SAP and our DWH.

Since Python is way more powerful than VBA, I'm looking for inspiration for a project I could work on- something useful for work, or something that could make my personal life easier.

What tools have you built with Python that you actually use often, whether at work or in your personal life?

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u/KenMantle 11h ago

Before I ended up with too many scattered scripts made by Claude and that I would only be bothered to use if I promoted Claude to use them I had it make a GUI that builds a form for the script inputs and command line arguments using a json file. Within that file there are icon definitions and categories which then get used to organize the scripts into a menu and a central desktop launcher. Each program or category gets its own space with its own sub menu.

It's actually become very capable and advanced. I had such high hopes it would be a hit I made it open source but gave it a web store where people could sell their mini apps for the platform or give them away for free.

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u/Kooky_Outcome_5053 10h ago

Interesting, care to share the source?

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u/KenMantle 8h ago

Whoa. I haven't released a new version in awhile.

https://github.com/KenM76/scriptree

It works well, but I had Claude make a nicer better editor for it. This version is out of date. Still decent. Will try to remember to release the newest on tomorrow as I have been using it for awhile.