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rogansage

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About rogansage

Jack of some trades, master of one (sleeping) and totally hopeless at others (e.g ice skating)...

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    Product Hunt CEO defends decision to hand-pick only 10 products to be on the Product Hunt Homepage for the whole day, effectively reducing visibility for non-featured products on t…

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    What do you think of a solution where it's headless (i.e bring your own charts / components) but with a no-code builder that gives you the benefits of an off-the-shelf tool to mana…

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    Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?

    Done some research and think chart.js seems like a great option. D3 seems powerful but might be complicated. Looking for simple + powerful, but maybe these are mutually exclusive..…

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    Ask HN: Are any embedded BI tools good?

    I've spoken to a bunch of people who use BI tools to embed analytics into their apps with an iframe. Nobody seems to like what they get despite some big players (PowerBI from Micro…

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    Building free tools alone is not a viable LT strategy, you need to market any tool (even the free ones) to get traction and usage. If you rely on SEO, you need to clearly demonstra…

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    Embeddable, a headless SaaS tool for building fully-custom analytics with full code control, wins 2024 Data Breakthrough Award as Embedded Analytics tool of the year 2024.

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    I completely agree! What we're trying to build is a solution for other companies (not to build it for our own app) that hits that sweet spot in the middle - i.e. one that allows co…

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    [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=stripe+analytics+new&tbm=isc...

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    What I mean by this is that you've got a number of out-of the box graph types, with their own limitations. You can't access the code to actually change them. Say you wanted to buil…

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    Correct - an analytics tool wouldn't solve for this need. I'm interested in finding a better solution to how to build analytics experiences in your own app for your customers (whet…

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    Thanks warrenm! - it sounds like the issue I describe is one that you've seen smart people come up against. Would a fair description of a perfect tool in your mind then be somethin…