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Show HN: All Dashboards in One Loop

17 points by Dsplai 7y ago

lukevp 7y ago
Pricing table doesn’t render right on iPhone 11 safari (although I have a pi-hole so may be related.) I like the idea of the product but I don’t like the name. It’s hard to remember and it has ai in the name which makes it seem related to artificial intelligence.
- YearsCal 7y ago
  Thank you! We'll fix it now!
emdowling 7y ago
Some friendly feedback: Your pricing table lists the most expensive plan as being "for big boys". This is really not appropriate and looks immature; it will put a lot of people off. I assume this is not your intention though!
- YearsCal 7y ago
  Thank you! We are not native English speakers and your feedback really helps!
  - jaywalk 7y ago
    You should pay a native English speaker to rewrite your copy. It's intelligible, but very broken and would not give me any confidence in paying for your product.
    - Dsplai 7y ago
      Yes, now it is clear, we definitely should. Thank you!
  - Dsplai 7y ago
    This comment (as well as other from Yearscal) was from Dsplai. We have two projects here and I was inattentive and commented under another account. Excuse me for the mess.
  - sneak 7y ago
    Your MAS link on the homepage links to the Russian language version of the MAS. Amounts in English are written with a '.' as the decimal separator, not ','.
    - Dsplai 7y ago
      Thank you! Fixed.
kqr 7y ago
Genuinely curious: what's the point of this? If I'm trying to look at a specific dashboard, I would go directly to it and I wouldn't want it scrolling away from under me. If I'm not looking at a specific dashboard, why would I want them scrolling around in front of me?
- Dystopian 7y ago
  I kind of get it. I've definitely been on teams before which have investigated aggregating all of our metrics into Geckoboard to have posted up on TVs near our work areas. These may be an interesting alternative since it gets rid of some of that integration portion and instead just shows the source and scrolls.
  - YearsCal 7y ago
    You are right, this is exactly we were thought about.
- YearsCal 7y ago
  Our case is to rotate it in our open-space TV
- wpietri 7y ago
  I'm with you. I absolutely hate rotating displays. If I look at it with intent, it's only going to be what I want 1/N of the time, meaning I'm wasting time N-1/N of the time. And if it's just a general information radiator, as with a big wall display, I still want it to be stable, because a) it's better for developing a correlative understanding between different variables, and b) I want to train people to look at it with intent. The only time it ever made sense to me was a) when displays were expensive, and b) people were going to anyhow be standing around with nothing to do. E.g., the decades-old BART LED-matrix signs rotate. I still hate it, but I get it. Now, though, displays are cheap, and at work, hopefully people have things to do!
ethanpil 7y ago
This seems like a good idea, and I'm sure a lot of use cases for people that have multiple dashboard that they don't want to keep loading and checking or setting up multiple computers to do that. However, when I need to do something like this I simply use this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-slideshow/pdblffiahfjjldpkngdpaegghhamefam?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-slideshow/pdbl...
uekidj498d73ndo 7y ago
Can someone suggest something similar for linux ? I have a raspberry pi and I would like to pull images from Reddit Eli5, reddit no stupid questions and reddit cool guides for display on home computer. Kids will love it.
sagichmal 7y ago
Dashboards should not "loop" — that totally defeats the purpose of communal screens as information radiators! Screens should always display the same dashboard continuously, so that viewers can passively detect and identify changes.
- jasonv 7y ago
  Not practical in all circumstances. For instance, Really Big Enterprises don't always have consensus among teams on what tools to use, and so.. for war/peace rooms, collecting all the dashboards relevant for an operations event is the vital requirement.
  - sagichmal 7y ago
    Incident- or event-based war rooms are special cases, but in those cases, static information radiators are even more important. Saying "Hey everyone, look at what <metric> is doing right now" and having it rotate away is totally destructive to coherence. If you want more information than can be displayed on available information radiators, they belong on individuals' computers.
    - jasonv 7y ago
      Says you, and probably me, but not the VP for the last event I participated in, which had hundreds of participants across the globe. Instead the project coordinator used a Chrome plugin to rotate the various dashboards, which were used, if not optimal, for the event. This tool serves a purpose, and if it does it better than the Chrome plugins that are out there, it'll could provide a lift.
      - sagichmal 7y ago
        This whole comment chain distills down to "some people, who are wrong, don't agree" which is 100% noise, 0% signal. I'm not sure why you bothered replying.
Dsplai 7y ago
Thank you all for your thoughts and feedback! We appreciate it a lot!
sneak 7y ago
This app on launch immediately phones home before any user interaction, or granting of consent for such spying. https://postimg.cc/QHgN35PS https://postimg.cc/QHgN35PS
SeriousM 7y ago
10$ per month, for what, rotating URLs? The pricing is far too high. A yearly price about 25$ is legit, but not 120$!
- Dsplai 7y ago
  Thank you! It seems you are right

17 points by Dsplai 7y ago

Pricing table doesn’t render right on iPhone 11 safari (although I have a pi-hole so may be related.) I like the idea of the product but I don’t like the name. It’s hard to remember and it has ai in the name which makes it seem related to artificial intelligence.

YearsCal 7y ago
Thank you! We'll fix it now!

emdowling 7y ago

Some friendly feedback: Your pricing table lists the most expensive plan as being "for big boys". This is really not appropriate and looks immature; it will put a lot of people off. I assume this is not your intention though!

YearsCal 7y ago
Thank you! We are not native English speakers and your feedback really helps!
- jaywalk 7y ago
  You should pay a native English speaker to rewrite your copy. It's intelligible, but very broken and would not give me any confidence in paying for your product.
  - Dsplai 7y ago
    Yes, now it is clear, we definitely should. Thank you!
- Dsplai 7y ago
  This comment (as well as other from Yearscal) was from Dsplai. We have two projects here and I was inattentive and commented under another account. Excuse me for the mess.
- sneak 7y ago
  Your MAS link on the homepage links to the Russian language version of the MAS. Amounts in English are written with a '.' as the decimal separator, not ','.
  - Dsplai 7y ago
    Thank you! Fixed.

kqr 7y ago

Genuinely curious: what's the point of this? If I'm trying to look at a specific dashboard, I would go directly to it and I wouldn't want it scrolling away from under me. If I'm not looking at a specific dashboard, why would I want them scrolling around in front of me?

Dystopian 7y ago
I kind of get it. I've definitely been on teams before which have investigated aggregating all of our metrics into Geckoboard to have posted up on TVs near our work areas. These may be an interesting alternative since it gets rid of some of that integration portion and instead just shows the source and scrolls.
- YearsCal 7y ago
  You are right, this is exactly we were thought about.
YearsCal 7y ago
Our case is to rotate it in our open-space TV
wpietri 7y ago
I'm with you. I absolutely hate rotating displays. If I look at it with intent, it's only going to be what I want 1/N of the time, meaning I'm wasting time N-1/N of the time. And if it's just a general information radiator, as with a big wall display, I still want it to be stable, because a) it's better for developing a correlative understanding between different variables, and b) I want to train people to look at it with intent. The only time it ever made sense to me was a) when displays were expensive, and b) people were going to anyhow be standing around with nothing to do. E.g., the decades-old BART LED-matrix signs rotate. I still hate it, but I get it. Now, though, displays are cheap, and at work, hopefully people have things to do!

ethanpil 7y ago

This seems like a good idea, and I'm sure a lot of use cases for people that have multiple dashboard that they don't want to keep loading and checking or setting up multiple computers to do that. However, when I need to do something like this I simply use this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-slideshow/pdblffiahfjjldpkngdpaegghhamefam?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-slideshow/pdbl...

uekidj498d73ndo 7y ago

Can someone suggest something similar for linux ? I have a raspberry pi and I would like to pull images from Reddit Eli5, reddit no stupid questions and reddit cool guides for display on home computer. Kids will love it.

sagichmal 7y ago

Dashboards should not "loop" — that totally defeats the purpose of communal screens as information radiators! Screens should always display the same dashboard continuously, so that viewers can passively detect and identify changes.

jasonv 7y ago
Not practical in all circumstances. For instance, Really Big Enterprises don't always have consensus among teams on what tools to use, and so.. for war/peace rooms, collecting all the dashboards relevant for an operations event is the vital requirement.
- sagichmal 7y ago
  Incident- or event-based war rooms are special cases, but in those cases, static information radiators are even more important. Saying "Hey everyone, look at what <metric> is doing right now" and having it rotate away is totally destructive to coherence. If you want more information than can be displayed on available information radiators, they belong on individuals' computers.
  - jasonv 7y ago
    Says you, and probably me, but not the VP for the last event I participated in, which had hundreds of participants across the globe. Instead the project coordinator used a Chrome plugin to rotate the various dashboards, which were used, if not optimal, for the event. This tool serves a purpose, and if it does it better than the Chrome plugins that are out there, it'll could provide a lift.
    - sagichmal 7y ago
      This whole comment chain distills down to "some people, who are wrong, don't agree" which is 100% noise, 0% signal. I'm not sure why you bothered replying.

Dsplai 7y ago

Thank you all for your thoughts and feedback! We appreciate it a lot!

sneak 7y ago

This app on launch immediately phones home before any user interaction, or granting of consent for such spying. https://postimg.cc/QHgN35PS https://postimg.cc/QHgN35PS

SeriousM 7y ago

10$ per month, for what, rotating URLs? The pricing is far too high. A yearly price about 25$ is legit, but not 120$!

Dsplai 7y ago
Thank you! It seems you are right