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Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by Domenic_S »

pkaler wrote: post #98
kyro wrote: post #27

I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea: I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensi…

Basically a Mint meets Ducksboard for my life, or even better, a universal life platform that services can hook into. I'm working on that and looking for TestFlight Beta testers. http://makeperfect.me

> I'm working on that

I sincerely never would have guessed that from your landing page.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by xyzzyb »

unreal37 wrote: post #99
xyzzyb wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out your.flowingdata: http://your.flowingdata.com/ It allows you to record and create beautiful charts from any arbitrary data you want to send it. It gets the data by you tweeting direct messages to it, so it's really easy to do from just about any device.

I wanted to try this, but it doesn't autofollow you so that kind of breaks the whole "send a DM to yfd" interface.

That's odd, it should autofollow. I've seen it go under heavy load before where the autofollow took several hours to complete.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by kmfrk »

kyro wrote: post #27

I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea: I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensi…

On the other hand, this is such a privacy information goldmine that you'd have to increase your security efforts by orders of magnitude.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by samspot »

mechanical_fish wrote: post #93
mgallivan wrote: post #54

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This is coming from a person who probably hasn't seen a benefit from using services like Mint.com. Since I've started using it I have been drastically more aware of my finances. The stuff that you are able to put into neat little folders _should_ go into neat little folders.

I use a service like Mint.com. I check it about once a month. That may well be too often, and a sign that my automation and budget aren't fully mature; once a quarter would be more ideal. A continuously-updated Mint dashboard? If I needed to micromanage my money that closely it would be a sign of trouble. And it would certainly be stressful. Most of the money-management advice I trust emphasizes the role of automatio…

But you assume that all users of mint have a mature budget. When you are first starting out you do need to monitor it heavily as it helps you adapt to your budget. Not to mention initial budgets rarely work because there is always some expense that was forgotten.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by freehunter »

Domenic_S wrote: post #101
pkaler wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically a Mint meets Ducksboard for my life, or even better, a universal life platform that services can hook into. I'm working on that and looking for TestFlight Beta testers. http://makeperfect.me

> I'm working on that I sincerely never would have guessed that from your landing page.

Yeah, even after the creator saying what it does and reading the site, I still have no idea what it actually does.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by ldng »

xyzzyb wrote: post #72

The resume should be a simple listing of your claimed skills and work history. To really stand out write a cover letter that sells what you've done and makes the case for your benefit to the company. If you want to go further, create a personal website and reference it from your resume/cover letter. e.g. mine is http://stephenballnc.com

Interesting Duckduckgo Karma widget. Where can I find more info about it ?

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by SatvikBeri »

incision wrote: post #20
patio11 wrote: post #14

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It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status chart to demonstrate myself. That is terribly against your interests, because your future employers do not burn with the need for more status charts. The contents of your existing work are not all that relevant to them. The results are much more interesting. How you are going to apply those experiences to…

I agree with essentially everything you're saying here, but I don't see how something like this couldn't be useful to show work behind my results progressed. Or at least easier to consume than a traditional resume or modern blog-as-resume for that purpose. I'm thinking of it as a simple tool for providing context and references to what I've done. The first step in making those claims of results credible. I'm not talk…

"I saved my employer $2MM/year with 3 months of work." vs. "I wrote Excel Macros and Shell Scripts to automate a bunch of reports."

I guarantee you the first sentence will get a lot more interest. It's also much more relevant-the specific technologies you used aren't really that important. Your ability to identify business problems and come up with solutions is.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by ralmeida »

IsaacL wrote: post #15

Suggestion: "how much would you theoretically pay for this" won't give you much accurate information. I'd suggest changing it to "pre-register for one of our plans: free, $5, $25", with an overview of each, and see what people click.

Also, if you keep the current format, you should consider dropping the default selection. It would be good to pre-select if you were actually in a signup process, but biasing your data in a survey like this is bad: you could end up with data saying that people are willing to pay more than they actually are.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by snowwrestler »

thegooley wrote: post #19

Looks like it was heavily inspired by this (from ~2010): http://culturedcode.com/status/ And I really like the concept, but I believe that the value of a "status dashboard" is that it's a concise view of what's happening right now. I really don't think that this sort of concept is a good resume replacement it's not a good format for 20+ items. I'd suggest making it a status dashboard for what you're working on right…

Software company status boards are not uncommon; here's another one from ~2010:

http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by pkaler »

Domenic_S wrote: post #101
pkaler wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically a Mint meets Ducksboard for my life, or even better, a universal life platform that services can hook into. I'm working on that and looking for TestFlight Beta testers. http://makeperfect.me

> I'm working on that I sincerely never would have guessed that from your landing page.

> I sincerely never would have guessed that from your landing page.

I've spent about 2 hours buying the domain, setting up email, Twitter, Launchrock, etc. So yes the pitch and landing page are very rough right now.

My goal is to do just enough marketing to get 100 good BETA testers. Ship to Testflight. Refine the App and the pitch. Rinse, repeat.

It'll get better every week but pardon the rough edges at the moment.

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