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Do a lot of startups make their own dashboards like this to show their specific data?

• sewerhorse 16y ago
  Probably. Google Chart API is golden.
• thingsilearned 16y ago
  Yes, absolutely every startup I've talked to creates their own dashboard or dumps some results to excel periodically. And I've talked to a lot of them, as my company is addressing this issue. (chart.io YCS10) I think that will change shortly.
  • bvi 16y ago
    Is there a way I could try out chart.io? I'm looking at a bunch of options here and what you guys seem to offer looks pretty compelling.
    • dataisfun 16y ago
      Yep. email me at dbeyer@chart.io and I'll bump you ahead of the beta list :)
• wccrawford 16y ago
  If not a dashboard, then it's periodic reports... Or reports pullable on demand. There's got to be a way to measure things and plan for the future, and reports/graphs/etc help a lot with that. I think reports are necessary, but a dashboard really helps everyone see at a glance how things are going. If your up-time graph looks like a heartbeat monitor, everyone knows what that means. Likewise for active customers being a downhill slope when viewed weekly. Most of the time, those graphs are just going to give you happy thoughts, but sudden spikes or dips, or worrisome things like those above... Well, you can SEE them and they mean more, especially to non-technical types.
• jakestein 16y ago
  Yes. My company (RJMetrics) sells BI and dashboard software to web businesses. Our biggest competitor by far is internal development.