Ask HN: Would building GUI's for CLI applications be very helpful?
Hi HN, I&#x27;m someone with quite a bit of front-end experience. I&#x27;ve built a few applications in my work where I&#x27;ve always had comments about how easy it is to use, as well as websites and done small bits of design here and there. I&#x27;m a security hobbyist and I&#x27;ve just switched over to Ubuntu on my desktop. As most of you would know, most security tools are written with CLI&#x27;s in mind. This is likely to automate a lot of the tasks, and speed up workflows for the power users.<p>But from a usability point of view for beginners (I come from Windows 95 and Macintosh II, so I&#x27;ve always had a GUI) and the younger crowd, I think the barrier to entry for a lot of these tools would be lowered if they had a GUI.<p>Pretty much what I&#x27;m asking; is does HN think it would be helpful or beneficial to contribute to existing projects by building GUI&#x27;s for them (or improving existing ones)? A good example I think is ZenMap GUI for nmap. Tools I have in mind are:<p>wpscan, joomscan, sqlsus, grabber, fimap, deblaze and BlindElephant (and improve wfuzz&#x27;s GUI, forgot the name for that project though).<p>Also if you have any ideas for others let me know. I don&#x27;t want to just limit this to security-related tools, if there&#x27;s an everyday CL app you have in mind..