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Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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Post by wulczer »

We've just launched our new, three-headed API (part of which is an open WebSocket server) and we'd like to thank this community for the all the help, feedback and inspiration. Ducksboard launched as a Show HN and countless hours that should've been dedicated to developing the product went into browsing the site (until we discovered noprocrast, yay!)

For the next 24 hours we're giving away free, full-featured plans to everyone with a HN account more than 10 days old, sign up at https://app.ducksboard.com/signup/hn/

These plans will always be free, but we can't promise we won't try to upsell you along the way, or add juicy new features and put them in paid-only plans :)

If you're curious about the API, the docs are at http://dev.ducksboard.com/ and there's a short blog post about it at http://blog.ducksboard.com/2012/04/introducing-the-ducksboard-api/

Thanks, HN!

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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Post by aitorciki »

lamby wrote: post #3

Can you tell me why I should move from geckoboard? (Not being snarky, I am not very happy with Geckoboard)

Hi lamby, I'm one of the co-founders at Ducksboard.

We approach things from a different angle than Geckoboard.

* As far as I know, they just visualize whatever comes from their data sources. We don't just visualize it, but we store it in our databases. This enables us to provide historic charts and other goodies.

* We make a strong focus on realtime as well, using WebSockets to push updates to the frontend as soon as they're available in the backend. I don't think they're going this far.

* The visual part is just a matter of taste, each one has a very particular style. We actually prefer ours :)

* And from today, our APIs allow handling your data and dashboards without a need to actually use the web frontend. This can be pretty useful in certain integration scenarios.

If you have more questions, feel free to ask.

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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Post by dclaysmith »

lamby wrote: post #3

Can you tell me why I should move from geckoboard? (Not being snarky, I am not very happy with Geckoboard)

I have played around with Geckoboard and I don't love it. I like the UI of Ducksboard more and am inclined to continue with it.

My biggest wish of these services is that they would fluidly, and intelligently expand to utilize the full width of the screen they are on.

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

#7

Post by lamby »

aitorciki wrote: post #4
lamby wrote: post #3

Can you tell me why I should move from geckoboard? (Not being snarky, I am not very happy with Geckoboard)

Hi lamby, I'm one of the co-founders at Ducksboard. We approach things from a different angle than Geckoboard. * As far as I know, they just visualize whatever comes from their data sources. We don't just visualize it, but we store it in our databases. This enables us to provide historic charts and other goodies. * We make a strong focus on realtime as well, using WebSockets to push updates to the frontend as soon as…

The main beef I have with geckoboard is a litany of embarrassing unresolved bugs but these features sound pretty cool. Am trying out your API tutorial right now.

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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Post by pmjoyce »

lamby wrote: post #7
aitorciki wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi lamby, I'm one of the co-founders at Ducksboard. We approach things from a different angle than Geckoboard. * As far as I know, they just visualize whatever comes from their data sources. We don't just visualize it, but we store it in our databases. This enables us to provide historic charts and other goodies. * We make a strong focus on realtime as well, using WebSockets to push updates to the frontend as soon as…

The main beef I have with geckoboard is a litany of embarrassing unresolved bugs but these features sound pretty cool. Am trying out your API tutorial right now.

Paul from Geckoboard here. Would love to hear how we can do better. Happy to respond here or you can shoot me a mail, paul at geckoboard.com
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