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Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
- baradoy 10y agoNice work Reflect!
- josh_carterPDX 10y agoAwesome! Congrats!
- farrahc32 10y agoThanks Josh!
- curiousgal 10y agoFeeling better about opting for a statistics and data analysis engineering degree instead of a software engineering one.
- bhollan 10y agoAs someone who has 2 engineering degrees and just finished a code school, how can I sell myself as though I had one of those?
- bradleybuda 10y agoCongrats to this very talented team; I've had the privilege of seeing a few early demos and the product is so easy to use without sacrificing power or richness.
- macandcheese 10y agoNice to see another PDX company get funded, quite a big seed as well! Curious if you guys use proprietary graphing libraries or wrap something like d3 in custom skins.
- bilmeswe 10y agoWe do use D3 under the hood.
- doppenhe 10y agoCongrats to the reflect team, great to see the journey from TechStars to seed round.
- bilmeswe 10y agoThanks. We're just getting started!
- unclek 10y agoSeems like the UI borrows super heavily from Invision.
- bilmeswe 10y agoWe're fans of Invision + elements of material design. Some inspiration there for sure.
- tschellenbach 10y agoWhow, great to see a fellow Techstars company ranking on Hnews :)
- skewart 10y agoCongrats on the funding. The product looks really appealing. I'm curious about the typical (expected) use case for something like this. I would think a lot of large-scale data consumers would already be using an end-to-end solution that includes at least halfway decent visualization tools - whether it's Tableau or ELK/Elastic. Will customers be more likely to be smaller businesses who right now have limited data viz tools? Or developers who need to make something quick and dirty and don't want to wade through d3? Or existing customers of major data platforms who aren't happy with the visualization they provide? Or something else entirely?
- colbyaley 10y agoThanks! Great question! We're different than other tools because we're an ingredient component that developers add to their applications and services (Tableau + others are standalone tools). We're working with larger companies, like Simply Measured, who are using Reflect to power their customer-facing products. Most companies (large or small) don't have the core competency for data visualization in-house -- Reflect helps fill that gap.
- phonon 10y agoSeems kind of similar to https://github.com/Polychart https://github.com/Polychart (which unfortunately went defunct)
- bradhe 10y agoHey phonon, I'm one of the cofounders at Reflect. Were you a Polychart user? Let me know if you'd like to compare Reflect to Polychart and I can get you in to kick the tires.
- phonon 10y agoI played with their demos a bit, but we use nvd3 now. (We also can't use an offsite service for this...) Thanks for the offer though!
- michaelbuckbee 10y agoThat's interesting from the standpoint of their license says "free for non commercial use" and then "for commercial use see https://polychart.com" https://polychart.com" which errors as like you said they went out of business.
- phonon 10y agoYeah, you can see an archived version of the site here https://web.archive.org/web/20150908004847/https://www.polychart.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150908004847/https://www.polyc... https://web.archive.org/web/20150924213349/https://www.polychart.com/demo https://web.archive.org/web/20150924213349/https://www.polyc... (video still works! http://play.vidyard.com/aDsHgEC9IPpqN52MfmpsCA.html http://play.vidyard.com/aDsHgEC9IPpqN52MfmpsCA.html ) and https://web.archive.org/web/20150924213345/https://www.polychart.com/license https://web.archive.org/web/20150924213345/https://www.polyc... and their blog is still up http://blog.polychart.com/ http://blog.polychart.com/ Perhaps the founder would make it MIT/BSD at this point? Anyone want to tweet at her? https://twitter.com/lisaczhang https://twitter.com/lisaczhang Also, for some history... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519893
- rgbrgb 10y agoLooks great. What DBs are supported? Can't find that anywhere in the docs.
- njx 10y agoHow does it compare against Tableau/Qlik/infocaptor ? Visualization has become commodity, it is what you do to simplify the path from data to viz is important. http://infocaptor.com/visualization-gallery.php http://infocaptor.com/visualization-gallery.php
- bradhe 10y agoHey njx! I'm Brad, one of the cofounders of Reflect. We totally agree that a lot of the front end for visualization has been commoditized (although I'd argue it still gets misused pretty badly). But building all the infrastructure to support visualization is still left as "an exercise for the reader" which is where we come in! I think that Tableau and Qlik (and QuickSite to a degree!) are great tools and they've helped make visualization and the infrastructure to do it available to people who previously didn't have it. We're extending this to any developer on the planet by using tools we are all familiar with: REST and Javascript. And since the whole internet wants to interact with visualization we're doing it at a new level of scale. Happy to talk through the details with you, my email address is in my profile--just ping me and we can schedule some time!
- WhitneyLand 10y ago>building all the infrastructure What infrastructure? Some cloud BI solutions let you drop an iframe to integrate and done. Same is true for the rest apis. Still not seeing the differentiation, however I honestly wish you success. Congrats.
- njx 10y agoWhat kind of infrastructure are you talking? Do you mean storing data? Congratulations on the launch.
- dnprock 10y agoCongrats guys.
- bradhe 10y agoThanks Phuoc!
- rekoros 10y agoCongrats!
- vegabook 10y agohonestly is this what passes for "data visualization" with these guys? A weekly stacked area chart?? You've been able to do this in Excel for 30 years. It worked fine on a 386. Where's the progress here.. Data visualization is about multi-gig, possibly streaming data sets, and crucially, parsing the data, probably in real time, for the crucial 1-2% of it that's actually interesting, and helping user find them. Not putting a thin SASS wrapper on stone age graphics whose underlying data size is probably measured in kilobytes This thing looks like a charting service. Not "data visualization".
- infinite8s 10y agoDo you have any suggestions for products/tools that can handle multi-gig streaming datasets?
- vegabook 10y agohttps://flink.apache.org/ https://flink.apache.org/
- infinite8s 10y agoAh sorry I meant from a data viz perspective. But I guess a dataviz solution that handles multi-gig datasets would need to be integrated end-to-end.