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Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Congrats on the launch, this looks great! I've been looking for something like this for sharing metrics internally. Will give it a try.

Thanks! Feel free to reach out to me a(at)livedocs.com if you're looking for an integration that would be useful to you. Happy to hack something together for you :)

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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I am utterly shocked it has taken this long for something like this to come around. Direct integration of data flows into document processing has been an obvious next-step-up for any kind of scalable document production/management framework for at least the past few years. The amount of time I have to spend on a regular basis inputting, updating, and managing information that is presented in documents but compiled in…

Agree! The horrors of updating documents at a previous role is what led me to build Livedocs!

We're trying to work with Google Docs currently. We're aware of the huge switching cost that comes with adopting a new editor, and we're trying to integrate with Drive/Gdocs. Will keep you in the loop!

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

#13

Love this!! Does this actually replace the entire data stack for early teams? except Segment I suppose

Thanks! Yes! We realized that early teams don't even have a data stack — they just rely on dashboards built into the tools they already use. The problem is, there's a dashboard on every tool, which means these teams have to hop between multiple tabs/dashboards to get a complete picture. We've built a way to view these metrics in a single place.

Segment doesn't have a built in visualizing layer, and relies on destinations to handle that (like Mixpanel, etc)— but even there, non-technical operators are lost because they have no mental model of how to transform a stream of events into something like, say, "Activation rate" or "Retention curve". We connect to Segment and have pre-written the SQL required to generate these commonly used metrics.

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

#14

I am utterly shocked it has taken this long for something like this to come around. Direct integration of data flows into document processing has been an obvious next-step-up for any kind of scalable document production/management framework for at least the past few years. The amount of time I have to spend on a regular basis inputting, updating, and managing information that is presented in documents but compiled in…

This is also being worked on in other areas with varying degrees of focus:

- https://coda.io/

- https://patera.io/

- https://grid.is/

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

#15
Looks good. In early stage teams it's easier to teach teams the tool you use because this way they can dive deeper. The teams I worked with were keen to learn GA and analytics as it helps them for personal growth.

At another startup, over the weekend, we connected tableau to our DB (which was also pulling in mixpanel via API) and scheduled reports to be sent to every employee.

I like the idea of live data which can be a dashboard of sorts, as to how I can see myself using it. Connect your data source (eg segment) -> Use prebuilt queries -> it gives an overview dashboard which can be sent to everyone as a report in email every morning -> If people are reading it, makes your job easier. (of course, use it as a live source for wherever and whenever people open it.) makes all the meetings and discussions easier.

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Looks good. In early stage teams it's easier to teach teams the tool you use because this way they can dive deeper. The teams I worked with were keen to learn GA and analytics as it helps them for personal growth. At another startup, over the weekend, we connected tableau to our DB (which was also pulling in mixpanel via API) and scheduled reports to be sent to every employee. I like the idea of live data which can b…

Thanks! We're trying to find the sweet spot between flexibility and ease of use, by adding features where you could dive deeper into metrics if you are an advanced user.

BTW, you can also setup Livedocs documents to automatically send to a slack channel and/or by email daily.

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

#18
Awesome, I’m actually spending the weekend building a personal project that’s very similar. Right now it goes from 3rd party api > database > website that presents all the data with chart.js

I’ve spent quite a few hours on it and am nowhere near done. Looks like this will save people some serious time. 1-click live data entry is a really powerful selling point.

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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post #18

Awesome, I’m actually spending the weekend building a personal project that’s very similar. Right now it goes from 3rd party api > database > website that presents all the data with chart.js I’ve spent quite a few hours on it and am nowhere near done. Looks like this will save people some serious time. 1-click live data entry is a really powerful selling point.

Super cool! There are some tricky challenges to solve under the hood to make one-click data entry work, for sure! Curious to learn what prompted you to build this..

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

#20

How is this different from Coda? Our team has a Coda doc that connects to Jira and GitHub to pull live data on open tickets/PRs.

Coda is a slick tool for building interactive documents!

We're focused on allowing non-technical folks to track metrics and data from third party tools (although we do also support pulling live data on tickets/PRs from Github too, as that is something that most operators, particularly founders at early stage co's are interested in tracking to see dev team activity, open bugs, etc)

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