Personally I love observablehq and cannot use it at work as it's all sensitive information. I'd love to replace big chunks of administration/maintenance/inspection/reporting ui/scripts/whatnot with live notebooks.

Best option atm seems to be Pluto or Jupyter.

ObservableHQ like instance with some basic auth controls would be perfect.

I am building https://www.jigdev.com for this exact reason.

It embeds an observable runtime in a standalone electron app. The interface is not a notebook but rather a dashboard where you can add observable nodes of various sizes. It also has tabs. I find it a lot more manageable for large notebooks, and a lot more user-friendly for business use cases.

Also the standalone app means you can connect to databases and filesystems directly, and avoid CORS for rest apis.

If you’re interested in becoming an early adapter, drop me a line at the email on the website. I’ll be happy to prioritize features that you’d need.

You can add login with Firebase

see https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/firebase

or a full example

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/chat-application

Many people cannot (or aren't allowed to) author stuff in the open and/or hosted somewhere else, so being able to self-host is a must.

Doesn't take anything away from the awesome product they built, it's just what it is.