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Is there any app like this already out for desktop Macs? I have an old iMac that I would love to repurpose for a status board. I was considering throwing toge

by pak 14y ago

Is there any app like this already out for desktop Macs? I have an old iMac that I would love to repurpose for a status board. I was considering throwing together a one-off webpage with a bunch of favorite sites in frames that refresh, but that wouldn't be nearly as nice to look at as an app like this with prebuilt widgets that are designed to be laid out in a fullscreen grid. I wanted to just use Dashboard, but it is really slow (widgets seem to freeze for minutes at a time, and Web Clips randomly fail to work for no apparent reason).

poutine 14y ago
http://www.telemetryapp.com http://www.telemetryapp.com
- pak 14y ago
  That does look pretty and awesome for business data, but do you know of anything similar that is more plugged into personal and social data sources like the OP? I wouldn't be so eager to e.g. recode a weather API that pushes specifically to Telemetry's service when there are already zillions of weather widgets and APIs out there.
  - poutine 14y ago
    Telemetry is just in the process of getting going. The capabilities you talk about are coming within the next couple weeks to Telemetry (I'm one of the two lone programmers behind Telemetry). Right now the app is uber geeky but we've made a killer real time HTML5 and native visualization engine with real time push. We're working on making things less geeky as we go but we currently have a native OSX app. Our iPad/iPhone app is coming in a couple weeks.
    - poutine 14y ago
      Oops, forgot to include the link to our OSX desktop app as per the parents request, you can get it at: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/telemetry/id571033468?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/telemetry/id571033468?mt=12
    - huhtenberg 14y ago
      So the dashboard on the landing page is the real thing? Very cool, though no tiles except for Time seem to be updating.
      - poutine 14y ago
        Yep, I need to make that demo board more dynamic. The technology is such that we can easily update once per second, perhaps even more frequently with some animation changes. Server sent events makes things easy.
    - EwanToo 14y ago
      I like it a lot. I suspect you'll need to come up with a self-install version to get into larger accounts like ours, but it's very nice.
      - poutine 14y ago
        Thank you. We're considering a self installed version but it'd be a large enterprise type install and further in the future.
    - organico 14y ago
      I can't see any pricing - I'd like to use you guys for a project, but I don't want to invest time writing a bunch of custom software to send our metrics to you, if you're going to disappear in 12 months... What's the roadmap re pricing and sticking around?
      - poutine 14y ago
        You can see pricing here once you login: https://admin.telemetryapp.com/account/plan https://admin.telemetryapp.com/account/plan We're going to put pricing on the public site too. We plan to stick around of course, the major advantage for us is that this project has almost no burn rate and is a critical component already of another one of our projects. So it's not going anywhere.
awy 14y ago
I worked on a project that does this. http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/ http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/ It's pretty simple to set up and write the widgets.
siong1987 14y ago
Dashing[1] from Shopify is pretty cool. Check out the demo[2] too. 1: http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ 2: http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample
- critiq 14y ago
  Thanks
  - Inufu 14y ago
    A real-word example from a project of mine: http://dash.furidamu.org:3030/dash http://dash.furidamu.org:3030/dash (which hasn't really started yet, but the dash is up)
rdl 14y ago
I want something which lives "inside the firewall" vs SAAS, too, since a lot of the metrics I want to track are on servers which I wouldn't want to have touch the Internet bareback.
- DiabloD3 14y ago
  I agree with this. Have VPN, will travel.
- njx 14y ago
  checkout infocaptor, it can be hosted within your intranet/firewall
lukeholder 14y ago
I dont see the point of this app. Dashboards with far better API integrations: http://ducksboard.com/ http://ducksboard.com/ http://www.geckoboard.com/ http://www.geckoboard.com/ http://www.telemetryapp.com/ http://www.telemetryapp.com/ http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ When I say I don't see the point, why would you limit the dashboard to an app? web browser based delivery is far better suited to this concept - The ability to display the boards on any size screen or hardware.
- huhtenberg 14y ago
  Some people are old fashioned and don't like sharing confidential business data with third party services. Other than that - sure, no point whatsoever.
  - zwily 14y ago
    You run dashing yourself.
  - officemonkey 14y ago
    It's not hard to run an internal web server for a small office. No sharing necessary.
aerolite 14y ago
Give https://www.leftronic.com https://www.leftronic.com a try.

by pak 14y ago

poutine 14y ago

http://www.telemetryapp.com http://www.telemetryapp.com

pak 14y ago
That does look pretty and awesome for business data, but do you know of anything similar that is more plugged into personal and social data sources like the OP? I wouldn't be so eager to e.g. recode a weather API that pushes specifically to Telemetry's service when there are already zillions of weather widgets and APIs out there.
- poutine 14y ago
  Telemetry is just in the process of getting going. The capabilities you talk about are coming within the next couple weeks to Telemetry (I'm one of the two lone programmers behind Telemetry). Right now the app is uber geeky but we've made a killer real time HTML5 and native visualization engine with real time push. We're working on making things less geeky as we go but we currently have a native OSX app. Our iPad/iPhone app is coming in a couple weeks.
  - poutine 14y ago
    Oops, forgot to include the link to our OSX desktop app as per the parents request, you can get it at: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/telemetry/id571033468?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/telemetry/id571033468?mt=12
  - huhtenberg 14y ago
    So the dashboard on the landing page is the real thing? Very cool, though no tiles except for Time seem to be updating.
    - poutine 14y ago
      Yep, I need to make that demo board more dynamic. The technology is such that we can easily update once per second, perhaps even more frequently with some animation changes. Server sent events makes things easy.
  - EwanToo 14y ago
    I like it a lot. I suspect you'll need to come up with a self-install version to get into larger accounts like ours, but it's very nice.
    - poutine 14y ago
      Thank you. We're considering a self installed version but it'd be a large enterprise type install and further in the future.
  - organico 14y ago
    I can't see any pricing - I'd like to use you guys for a project, but I don't want to invest time writing a bunch of custom software to send our metrics to you, if you're going to disappear in 12 months... What's the roadmap re pricing and sticking around?
    - poutine 14y ago
      You can see pricing here once you login: https://admin.telemetryapp.com/account/plan https://admin.telemetryapp.com/account/plan We're going to put pricing on the public site too. We plan to stick around of course, the major advantage for us is that this project has almost no burn rate and is a critical component already of another one of our projects. So it's not going anywhere.

awy 14y ago

I worked on a project that does this. http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/ http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/ It's pretty simple to set up and write the widgets.

siong1987 14y ago

Dashing[1] from Shopify is pretty cool. Check out the demo[2] too. 1: http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ 2: http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample

critiq 14y ago
Thanks
- Inufu 14y ago
  A real-word example from a project of mine: http://dash.furidamu.org:3030/dash http://dash.furidamu.org:3030/dash (which hasn't really started yet, but the dash is up)

rdl 14y ago

I want something which lives "inside the firewall" vs SAAS, too, since a lot of the metrics I want to track are on servers which I wouldn't want to have touch the Internet bareback.

DiabloD3 14y ago
I agree with this. Have VPN, will travel.
njx 14y ago
checkout infocaptor, it can be hosted within your intranet/firewall

lukeholder 14y ago

I dont see the point of this app. Dashboards with far better API integrations: http://ducksboard.com/ http://ducksboard.com/ http://www.geckoboard.com/ http://www.geckoboard.com/ http://www.telemetryapp.com/ http://www.telemetryapp.com/ http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ When I say I don't see the point, why would you limit the dashboard to an app? web browser based delivery is far better suited to this concept - The ability to display the boards on any size screen or hardware.

huhtenberg 14y ago
Some people are old fashioned and don't like sharing confidential business data with third party services. Other than that - sure, no point whatsoever.
- zwily 14y ago
  You run dashing yourself.
- officemonkey 14y ago
  It's not hard to run an internal web server for a small office. No sharing necessary.

aerolite 14y ago

Give https://www.leftronic.com https://www.leftronic.com a try.