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Re: Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

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Was I the only one who found that website really annoying? Everything animated, chat popping up when I didn't want it.

It's for the wow-factor. It will stay impressive until everybody starts doing that and people start to correlate those animations with bad UI.

And, it's likely that an impressive site increase sales, so it will likely spread a lot yet.

Re: Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

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post #9

This looks nice! Can anyone recommend an opensource/self-hosted alternative? Would really like to set something like this up in the office but would prefer to host it on my internal network. Plus I like to tinker with things :)

http://grafana.org/

Re: Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

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post #9

This looks nice! Can anyone recommend an opensource/self-hosted alternative? Would really like to set something like this up in the office but would prefer to host it on my internal network. Plus I like to tinker with things :)

Well there's Dashing from Shopify which has been around since 2012.

We use it at the office and are happy with it.

https://github.com/Shopify/dashing

Re: Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

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post #14
post #9

This looks nice! Can anyone recommend an opensource/self-hosted alternative? Would really like to set something like this up in the office but would prefer to host it on my internal network. Plus I like to tinker with things :)

Well there's Dashing from Shopify which has been around since 2012. We use it at the office and are happy with it. https://github.com/Shopify/dashing

Apparently dashing is not being maintained anymore. Check its homepage. http://dashing.io

Re: Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

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One of the things that really hit home at my last job and that I see missing from a lot of these dashboards is comparative context. So I walk in in the morning and we have a dashboard for vists and signups / payments and it shows lots of visits and no payments. Is that normal? Is that expected or concerning? Without showing what it was yesterday at the same time or on the same day last week, or weekly/monthly avg how do I know how to feel about anything I'm looking at.

I know the answer to that can be "you should know your product" but I'm not sure that answer is enough.

Re: Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

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post #16

One of the things that really hit home at my last job and that I see missing from a lot of these dashboards is comparative context. So I walk in in the morning and we have a dashboard for vists and signups / payments and it shows lots of visits and no payments. Is that normal? Is that expected or concerning? Without showing what it was yesterday at the same time or on the same day last week, or weekly/monthly avg how…

you know.. I have been an user of some of these paid dashboards and you hit on a very good point! historical context is something I always felt was missing. i end up having to store the history myself and comparing it but it would make sense for these dashboards to be "smart" and actually do a little more than just display the current data.

Re: Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

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post #19

What is the best way to get a web-based dashboard -- Castor, for example -- displaying on a wall-mounted television? Is it possible to do it through an AppleTV?

I'd use a raspberry pi set up as a kiosk. If you google 'raspberry pi kiosk mode' there should be a fair handful of simple tutorials.
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