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Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by weego »

wrkronmiller wrote: post #7

How does this compare to something like Grafana? https://github.com/grafana/grafana

Can I just take a moment, and I apologise up front for singling you out for this one, to say how much I hate comments like this, even more that they get upvoted.

There's always some arbitrary software mentioned that is often barely related even tangentially and expect someone else to reply with the info.

If you want to know how it differs, YOU look it up and if the outcome of that research is interesting enough YOU post it. Don't expect other people to do it for you, or worse, make it so that the creator of something that might not even be the one linking it feels like they have to justify why they open sourced something.

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by thomasfedb »

omouse wrote: post #2

I never understand why people choose MIT when they create something valuable and don't go for AGPL or GPL. Looks good though :D

I use MIT because I want others to use my code. That's all I want for my code. It's a gift. MIT is user-friendly (read: less restrictive).

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by joneholland »

weego wrote: post #11
wrkronmiller wrote: post #7

How does this compare to something like Grafana? https://github.com/grafana/grafana

Can I just take a moment, and I apologise up front for singling you out for this one, to say how much I hate comments like this, even more that they get upvoted. There's always some arbitrary software mentioned that is often barely related even tangentially and expect someone else to reply with the info. If you want to know how it differs, YOU look it up and if the outcome of that research is interesting enough YOU p…

I don't think this is fair criticism. Grafana is an exact competitor to this, and as the market leader, it's only natural to be the benchmark.

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by Terretta »

StavrosK wrote: post #9

Why MongoDB for what is pretty much a front-end :( What's wrong with SQLite?

More front-endy, see Dashing, now Smashing, a Sinatra based framework that lets you build beautiful dashboards.

https://github.com/SmashingDashboard/smashing/wiki

You can store models in SQLite:

https://github.com/SmashingDashboard/smashing/wiki/How-To%3A...

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by dkural »

mrkmcknz wrote: post #14

There seems to be a plethora of these open source dashboard builder systems. I just want to pay for a hosted version that isn't going to be $1k monthly and require me to build "plugins" to do something that is akin to an API call.

I want it to be a $1K/m so they can stay in business and build a sustainable thing I won't have to replace. That's still way cheaper than spending 1/4th of an engineers time per year on an open source dashboard.

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by kbumsik »

omouse wrote: post #2

I never understand why people choose MIT when they create something valuable and don't go for AGPL or GPL. Looks good though :D

Because people these days want to use open source codes freely, without bothering with License. And people who open projects wants their project more widely used. GPL is too restrictive for new projects.
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