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$10 is cost prohibitive???

by visualR 13y ago

SurfScore 13y ago
In "how much I pay to eat out" money, no. (It is like...50 Chicken McNuggets tho) In "how much apps typically cost" money, yeah. It could be really useful, but in the end its still just a collection of stuff you can find somewhere else. You have to consciously open it every time you want to use it, as opposed to Mission Control in OS X where you can just swipe left and see your widgets. Not knocking the usability of it, just making an observation
- eridius 13y ago
  Do you eat at McDonalds every day? Most places aren't quite so cheap. Ironically, my roommate actually regularly pays $8 + tip to get delivery McDonalds (via Postmates Get It Now).
  - SurfScore 13y ago
    I actually haven't eaten at McDonalds in awhile. Just love using the Chicken McNuggets pricing strategy. I could never spend that much for it though.
jakeheimark 13y ago
$10 is quite a bit to pay before I know how "custom" my custom data input can be. Especially when there are quite a few open source similar-looking dashboards (like dashing: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing https://github.com/Shopify/dashing). Sure, not a full-blown app (but how hard is it to full-screen a browser from a set top box?) I need to track a lot of metrics. Very few of them have been covered by Panic. I'm happy to pay a bit for good design, but I don't feel like forking over cash on the promise that it "might" cover my use case.
- bjelkeman-again 13y ago
  For me it is worth $10 just to see how they have implemented it.
- clpanic 13y ago
  I checked out the http://telemetryapp.com http://telemetryapp.com link above and it seems to require a lot of bitbending. I would be interested to see how you would compare something a little more geeky like Telemetry (which does have a nice polish to the UI) to Dashing.
- eridius 13y ago
  From experimenting with the app, it seems your custom input can be: * RSS * CSV * JSON * HTML <table> which the app formats to look nice * Raw HTML which the app does zero formatting of, and they provide a PDF with the information necessary to make it look thematically appropriate (e.g. correct fonts, colors, etc). The JSON/CSV can be displayed as a Graph, and CSV/HTML <table> can be displayed as a Table.
- davidpombar 13y ago
  If you are looking for a dashboard just with your own data. Ducksboard has a free option for developers, i'm almost sure. http://ducksboard.com/pricing/ http://ducksboard.com/pricing/ If you later need integrate data from applications that ducksboard supports, surely it's "cheaper" pay for you ;)

$10 is cost prohibitive???

by visualR 13y ago

$10 is cost prohibitive???

In "how much I pay to eat out" money, no. (It is like...50 Chicken McNuggets tho) In "how much apps typically cost" money, yeah. It could be really useful, but in the end its still just a collection of stuff you can find somewhere else. You have to consciously open it every time you want to use it, as opposed to Mission Control in OS X where you can just swipe left and see your widgets. Not knocking the usability of it, just making an observation

eridius 13y ago
Do you eat at McDonalds every day? Most places aren't quite so cheap. Ironically, my roommate actually regularly pays $8 + tip to get delivery McDonalds (via Postmates Get It Now).
- SurfScore 13y ago
  I actually haven't eaten at McDonalds in awhile. Just love using the Chicken McNuggets pricing strategy. I could never spend that much for it though.

jakeheimark 13y ago

$10 is quite a bit to pay before I know how "custom" my custom data input can be. Especially when there are quite a few open source similar-looking dashboards (like dashing: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing https://github.com/Shopify/dashing). Sure, not a full-blown app (but how hard is it to full-screen a browser from a set top box?) I need to track a lot of metrics. Very few of them have been covered by Panic. I'm happy to pay a bit for good design, but I don't feel like forking over cash on the promise that it "might" cover my use case.

bjelkeman-again 13y ago
For me it is worth $10 just to see how they have implemented it.
clpanic 13y ago
I checked out the http://telemetryapp.com http://telemetryapp.com link above and it seems to require a lot of bitbending. I would be interested to see how you would compare something a little more geeky like Telemetry (which does have a nice polish to the UI) to Dashing.
eridius 13y ago
From experimenting with the app, it seems your custom input can be: * RSS * CSV * JSON * HTML <table> which the app formats to look nice * Raw HTML which the app does zero formatting of, and they provide a PDF with the information necessary to make it look thematically appropriate (e.g. correct fonts, colors, etc). The JSON/CSV can be displayed as a Graph, and CSV/HTML <table> can be displayed as a Table.
davidpombar 13y ago
If you are looking for a dashboard just with your own data. Ducksboard has a free option for developers, i'm almost sure. http://ducksboard.com/pricing/ http://ducksboard.com/pricing/ If you later need integrate data from applications that ducksboard supports, surely it's "cheaper" pay for you ;)