i would say not bad but the fact you are asking me to pay to use it when i can have something like d3 is a bit of a joke
Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library
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#12Really good, but the per-developer pricing model doesn't make sense. Just stick to one price for commercial use.
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#13i would say not bad but the fact you are asking me to pay to use it when i can have something like d3 is a bit of a joke
D3 takes ages to build graphs with. That's why NVD3 made such big news.
What you get when you buy a license is support. Which I remember was the main reason we had for not choosing NVD3 last time, and went with a library with much better documentation.
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#14i would say not bad but the fact you are asking me to pay to use it when i can have something like d3 is a bit of a joke
As someone who has used D3, I think you are vastly underestimating the audience of D3 users who would happily pay for a far easier solution ;)
(do agree with other comments that per-dev pricing is a bad model, though)
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#15Thanks for the comment and the feedback on the pricing. Please email team@polychart.com for a discount or alternative model just for HN readers, or if you have other feedback!
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#16This uses Raphael. Which is awesome.
Alternatives to Raphael is d3.
Alternatives all together is NVD3. If you haven't seen this one, go check it out.
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#17Wow, these interactive charts are great. Can't wait to pay for something like this unless there's already wonderfully interactive charting libraries out there like nvd3 (http://nvd3.org/), dc (http://nickqizhu.github.io/dc.js/) crossfilter (http://square.github.io/crossfilter/) or even anything from d3's website (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery)
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#18This looks interesting, but what are the advantages of this over Vega, which is free?
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#19I like the interaction layer (at least the way it's described). The per-developer pricing for this is really strange though. If I implement this in an app, it may start out as my app, and then other developers may collaborate later on, sometimes temporarily. How much would this cost? I have no idea, so I'd probably skip it entirely for any project.
Thanks JangoSteve for the feedback. Would a per application or per domain licensing be something you'd be looking for?
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#20I like the interaction layer (at least the way it's described). The per-developer pricing for this is really strange though. If I implement this in an app, it may start out as my app, and then other developers may collaborate later on, sometimes temporarily. How much would this cost? I have no idea, so I'd probably skip it entirely for any project.
Between this and the cost per developer, I don't think there's any way I could ever justify using it. It looks really nice, though, definitely good job.
Thanks fourm for the feedback! Let us know what you think would be reasonable and email team@polychart.com for a discount for HN users. (And of course, always free for non-commercial use)