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Panic Status Board is being discontinued
- decasia 10y agoAnyone know other good alternatives to this project? I've used the open-source Freeboard project[1] before, but curious what else is out there. [1] https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard
- res0nat0r 10y agoDashing from Etsy: http://dashing.io/ http://dashing.io/
- angeloashmore 10y agoSpotify
- llamataboot 10y agoActually, Shopify :)
- angeloashmore 10y agoHa, thanks
- morgante 10y agoDashing is sadly abandoned. [0] [0] https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/issues/711 https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/issues/711
- jldugger 10y agoIndeed. Is https://github.com/talpor/django-dashing/ https://github.com/talpor/django-dashing/ any healthier?
- tnorthcutt 10y agoThis fork looks actively maintained: https://github.com/SmashingDashboard/smashing https://github.com/SmashingDashboard/smashing
- infinitone 10y agoWe use dashing at my workplace extensively. From my research into the space a year ago, dashing is the one with the largest library of plugins [0], and its super easy to make your own- here's mine [1]. [0] https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Additional-Widgets https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Additional-Widgets [1] https://github.com/aysark/dashing-timeline https://github.com/aysark/dashing-timeline
- intrasight 10y agoI'm also curious as to what alternatives exist. Am often asked by clients to recommend a web dashboard framework.
- ProAm 10y agokibana?
- throwaway1892 10y agoKibana can only connect to an Elasticsearch backend, usually with Logstash to parse/format the data. So I don't think it would fit in the use cases from other people in this thread.
- cyberferret 10y agoI was going to suggest Numerous app, but it looks like they have shut down as well. Musn't be enough demand or money in dashboard apps, it seems?!?
- beeswax 10y ago+1 for dashing [1] While not actively maintained by Shopify anymore it's working really well, has easy setup and allows you to get up and running quickly. The grid system and basic widgets provide a good and clean starting point, although you probably want to invest some time to make it visually coherent if you're using a large amount of third-party plugins. Our team is using it for polled data that is updated once an hour up to every minute and it's working great for us. [1] http://dashing.io http://dashing.io
- doublerebel 10y agoDashing seems eye-appealing to start and there are many widgets, however most are abandoned like Dashing. IMHO Dashing has an awkward syntax to add or extend widgets which is why it dropped off. That's one of the reasons I updated Godot [0] (similar to Ruby's Riemann), a NodeJS stream processor, and re-ported Riemann's dash [1] to match. You can send any event into the stream processor including any metadata, and receive it into any of the dash widgets, such as Title, List, Grid, Knob, Timeseries, and many more. I use it to monitor anything from active container instances to queue stats to CPU wait times. It's really similar to Dashing, in fact I ported the Knob directly from Dashing, but it's much much easier to add a data source. As a bonus any event can trigger a Slack, email, SMS, or webhook. If you have any trouble getting running just open an issue, the docs still have a few holes. [0]: https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2 https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2 [1]: https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash
- mikkom 10y agoWe have used Grafana in some major client cases. https://grafana.net/ https://grafana.net/
- zubspace 10y agoIn the windows world I would recommend Power BI [1]. Our nightly test server generates a lot of performance metrics which are stored in an excel file. We upload the excel to OneDrive and Power BI periodically refreshes a report dashboard which we display on a large screen within a browser. The designer (Power BI Desktop) is really nice. The data aggregation and shaping is powerful. The only drawback we experienced is that the provided visualizations [2] are sometimes a bit limited, there are custom ones [3] with varying quality though. You need Power BI Pro for this auto-sync scenario, but we got such a license for free through our msdn account. [1]: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/ https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/ [2]: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-visualization-types-for-reports-and-q-and-a/ https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-se... [3]: https://app.powerbi.com/visuals https://app.powerbi.com/visuals
- infinite8s 10y agoWhat kind of additional chart types are you looking for? I'm building a power pivot like desktop tool and find people often would like more variety of chart types besides bar, line, scatters and heatmaps, but I can't determine if it's because of aesthetics or there is analyses they can't perform with standard charts.
- bergie 10y agoThere is OpenMCT from NASA: https://nasa.github.io/openmct/ https://nasa.github.io/openmct/
- arsenico 10y agoYou can look at Google Data Studio. It is early days and it is Google, but looks promising for some of my needs. https://www.google.com/analytics/data-studio/ https://www.google.com/analytics/data-studio/
- thirdsun 10y agoI always thought that Metabase ( http://www.metabase.com/ http://www.metabase.com/ ) looks promising.
- baumandm 10y agoMy employer has open-sourced our internal dashboarding platform, Cyclotron[1]. It has a responsive grid layout, data sources, widgets, multiple pages, etc. We've been using it internally for the past few years, and it's still in active development. [1] http://www.cyclotron.io/ http://www.cyclotron.io/ (Disclaimer: I'm the developer, happy to answer questions.)
- criddell 10y agoThis looks really cool. I posted a question under the Freeboard recommendation because I just want something for the LAN only. Many of the other seem to be subscription services and for me, that's overkill. I'm going to check it out when I get some free cycles, maybe over Christmas.
- gavreh 10y agoAtlasboard from Atlassian: http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/ http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/ Plenty of commits in 2016 ... seems to be actively maintained: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlasboard/commits/all https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlasboard/commits/all
- njx 10y ago+1 Infocaptor [http://www.infocaptor.com http://www.infocaptor.com] Simple Grids to powerful visualizations. Connects with all standard SQL databases
- AJ007 10y agohttps://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
- Maarius 10y agoWhile not an exact match in functionality, Cluvio (https://www.cluvio.com https://www.cluvio.com) is a similar product that allows you to quickly build beautiful interactive dashboards based on SQL queries (and optional R processing). It is a platform for analyzing primarily business data, but it still may be of a lot of value for current statusboard customers. Disclaimer: I am one of the founders.
- criddell 10y agoFreeboard looks neat. Do you know if the github code is all you need to get started? I'd like to make a little personal dashboard that displays my agenda for today from my calendar, a live feed from a webcam on my LAN, a clock, and maybe the current weather conditions. I don't want to subscribe to a service and I don't want the dashboard accessible from anywhere but the LAN. Is Freeboard something I could use?
- nodesocket 10y agoWonder if this is a case of the wrong pricing model? Status Board sold for $9.99, perhaps they should have made it free in the app store, but require a monthly subscription for data and integrations. The monthly fees could also fund development of more 3rd party integrations.
- rtpg 10y agoI think that there's more and more of an argument against one-time purchases for apps that want continued development. If all the digital artists in the world buy Photoshop, in order for Adobe to justify continued support, they have to add marketable features. There's not nearly as much of an incentive to support software. It all goes into features.
- criddell 10y agoI think the need to constantly add more and more features to software isn't necessarily a good thing. I think there are lots of software packages that should slip into a maintenance mode.
- rdtsc 10y ago> “want a status board” budget: companies would buy a $3,000 display for our $10 app. I do this irrational stuff all the time. $15 for a wedge of cheese I haven't tried before - yap totally fine. A $2.59 app - hmm, yeah, not sure, think about for 5 minutes, read reviews, seems expensive, what if I don't like it, pass... I know it is ridiculous and I see me doing it, but it still happens.
- forrestthewoods 10y agoGiven how many terrible $3 apps I've wasted money on the $15 cheese is probably a better ROI.
- pawadu 10y agoWas about to write the same thing! I have paid significantly more than $3 for something that turned out to be garbage (side note: Humble Bundle team, you gave charity a bad name). Haven't encountered anything similar while buying cheese.
- lgas 10y agoYou don't have a device in your pocket that will vend you an endless stream of cheese wedges 24 hours a day though... That gives me an idea for a startup.
- rdtsc 10y agoI will invest in that!
- bobwaycott 10y agoShut up and take my money!
- copperx 10y agoThat part of the post-mortem is inaccurate. I was looking recently for a solution to display a status board for a small business on an HDTV. 40" TVs can be found for $180 (you don't have to spend $3000 to have something useful), a mount is $20, and the app is $10. You've got most of the components for $210, but then you have to stomach the $200-400 to buy an iPad which will sit unused taped behind the TV just to display the status board. Not to mention you have to secure it to prevent theft if the TV is on a high traffic area. The idea that you have to sacrifice an iPad doesn't feel right to me, even though you could get an Apple TV for roughly the same price (< $150), but the Apple TV would provide more functionality (e.g., the Apple TV could be used as an impromptu projector through AirPlay). They chose the wrong platform for the app. They should have developed it for the Apple TV.
- themodelplumber 10y ago> as we’ve learned the hard way over the past couple of years, there’s not a lot of overlap right now between “pro” and “iOS”. There's not a lot of overlap right now between "pro" and "Apple, Inc." Right now I'd reckon Apple sees the puck heading for the laziest leisure class the world has ever known.
- Animats 10y agoThat's a business model problem. Your $10 app is being used to drive a dedicated $3000 display. So what do you do? Sell integrated display and app systems? It works for Bloomberg. You don't have to use Bloomberg's hardware any more, but you don't save much by not doing so.
- 9935c101ab17a66 10y agoThey themselves say it's a business model problem. It's pretty easy to infer they have absolutely no interest in selling integrated display/app combos.
- Animats 10y agoIt's a huge pain. Now you have inventory, shipping, and service to deal with, while the market is tiny. Still, they probably could sell the app in a box with a Beaglebone or Raspberry Pi inside and an HDMI connector.
- annnnd 10y agoHow about: ask for more! For enterprise there is no difference between $10 and $200 - the person setting it up cost >$500 anyway. So why not make 20x more and maybe finance your development properly?
- TorKlingberg 10y agoI think people are very reluctant to spend more than $3 in the iOS App Store. Speaking of which, setting up a separate Apple ID for a status board seems like a huge hassle. Whose credit card do you set it up with?
- annnnd 10y agoWe are not talking about "people", but about "enterprise". Also, don't use iOS app store as advertising channel, just as your payment processor. Might be a bit unusual, but it pays to check. Not sure what you mean by separate Apple ID? EDIT: clarity.
- mikeknoop 10y agoThe Panic status board is near to my heart. Back in 2010, their launch blog post was something that inspired me to try and build products for people instead of freelancing for a living. It's really interesting/sad to read their second reason for shutting down: > pro users are more likely to want a larger number of integrations with new services and data sources, something that’s hard to provide with limited revenue, which left the app “close but not quite” for many users Because this is exactly what Zapier, the company I co-founded a year later, provides for free to other companies/products. Integrate once with us and automatically get integrations with hundreds of other apps (750+ and growing). I love and use several Panic products (Transmit, Prompt, Firewatch) and hope this end-of-life enables them to spend more time on new ideas.
- debaserab2 10y agoI found Zapier's integrations to be very narrow (e.g., hitting only one major use case at best) and cost prohibitive. The concept sounded really cool, but then when it came down to actually using in production I had a hard time arguing with myself: "Eh, why not spend a night or two just building out this integration ourselves the exact way we want instead of wasting that much money on something that doesn't even completely fit the bill." The subscription SaaS cost quickly supersedes the developer cost in a matter of a few months, although I suppose it could have some niche uses with a proof of concept/MVP.
- mikeknoop 10y agoYou have a valid reason for not using Zapier today because you know how to write code (though some still do). The majority of Zapier users are not engineers. They can't make that trade-off decision. Their trade-off is instead "should I use Zapier or just not do X at all?" I'd guess many of Panic board's users chose the latter (not do X at all) given they cited lack of integrations as one reason for shutting down.
- zimpenfish 10y agoWell, I know how to write code and I still barely use Zapier because I value my time, IFTTT is "good enough" for most things, and also porting all my IFTTT recipes would cost me -way- too much a month. Not a complaint about Zapier, mind, just that "you can code" isn't a great argument on this point.
- cyberferret 10y agoDamn. I've used Status Board for a while and love its simplicity. Shame to see so many dashboard apps closing down this year. 2016 is definitely not 'Year of the Dashboard'...
- deanclatworthy 10y agoFor anyone looking for an alternative geckoboard has the most integrations I've seen, whilst still looking visually appealing. I found others to look so boring and didn't have time to spend styling it and making new widgets.
- thirdsun 10y agoAdmittedly it looks fantastic, but that's significant price tag.
- breul99 10y agoOpen source it.
- grzm 10y agoFirst comment from the post, from Cabel: Oh, to head off one question at the pass: it’s not feasible for us to open source Status Board. It contains code and frameworks shared among our apps that we’re not quite ready to commit to the public domain. Sorry.
- Wouter33 10y agoWe have been looking into a good solution for our office dashboard last month. Evaluated a lot of solutions like Geckoboard, but eventually ended up using Databox.com. Beautiful dashboards and also mobile apps.
- intoverflow2 10y agoReleasing this on iPad instead of being a webapp never made any sense what so ever. In a post disposable single board computer world it gets even more ridiculous.
- omouse 10y agoInspired by Panic Status Board and dismayed that it was not open source, I tried to create my own, in php (not sure if the code is floating out there somewhere) and man, it's bad to see such a great product go. Seriously, so good it inspires one to write better looking software.