Congrats on the launch, this looks great! I've been looking for something like this for sharing metrics internally. Will give it a try.
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
#12I 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…
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
#13Love this!! Does this actually replace the entire data stack for early teams? except Segment I suppose
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
#14I 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…
Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code
#15At 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
#16Looks 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…
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
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#18I’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
#19Awesome, 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
#20How 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.
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)