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Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

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Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

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Post by toovs »

rnvarma wrote: post #8
mahesh_rm wrote: post #3

Hello, considering using it: where's pricing?

Hi! We offer different pricing packages since we work with a varied set of companies that use the product in different ways. Some example use cases: metrics and data viz on a landing page, admin panel dashboards, billing dashboards, custom dashboard share links, etc. Depending on your use case we'd be happy to chat more and figure out a pricing model that makes sense for you. In general we don't charge for # of dashb…

To echo the above sentiments, no pricing is also synonymous with enterprise for me and I don't give any consideration to products without transparent pricing at all.

Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

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Post by rnvarma »

mchusma wrote: post #9
rnvarma wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! We offer different pricing packages since we work with a varied set of companies that use the product in different ways. Some example use cases: metrics and data viz on a landing page, admin panel dashboards, billing dashboards, custom dashboard share links, etc. Depending on your use case we'd be happy to chat more and figure out a pricing model that makes sense for you. In general we don't charge for # of dashb…

Just note that for some people, no pricing means "enterprise"/expensive. (I never even consider a product without transparent pricing myself, but others have had more success with this approach).

Got it - thanks for the feedback. To be transparent, startups and smaller companies we work with are paying $500/month (pretty cheap for replacing months of engineering working and maintenance). Our pricing then goes up from there depending on number of end customer groups.

We work with our clients on how the pricing scales up since some customers have very few end customer groups with tons of usage, whereas some customers have tens of thousands of end customer groups by virtue of being more consumer facing.

Let me know if you have more specific questions about pricing!

Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

#13

Post by rnvarma »

toovs wrote: post #11
rnvarma wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! We offer different pricing packages since we work with a varied set of companies that use the product in different ways. Some example use cases: metrics and data viz on a landing page, admin panel dashboards, billing dashboards, custom dashboard share links, etc. Depending on your use case we'd be happy to chat more and figure out a pricing model that makes sense for you. In general we don't charge for # of dashb…

To echo the above sentiments, no pricing is also synonymous with enterprise for me and I don't give any consideration to products without transparent pricing at all.

That makes sense. We are definitely not trying to hide an outrageous enterprise price tag. I responded to mchusma's comment with how our pricing currently works. Let me know if you have any specific questions about it and happy to dive deeper!

Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

#14

Post by desireco42 »

I think I would need this if there was a clear pricing. Since there is not, I am assuming it is too expensive.

It is impressive the number of databases you support, especially enterprise ones. I still can't use it without more clarity about pricing and usage.

Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

#15

Post by rnvarma »

desireco42 wrote: post #14

I think I would need this if there was a clear pricing. Since there is not, I am assuming it is too expensive. It is impressive the number of databases you support, especially enterprise ones. I still can't use it without more clarity about pricing and usage.

Hi, thanks for the thoughts and glad to hear this could be useful for you! Startups and smaller companies we work with are paying $500/month (pretty cheap for replacing months of engineering working and maintenance). Our pricing then goes up from there depending on number of end customer groups.

We work with our clients on how the pricing scales up since some customers have very few end customer groups with tons of usage, whereas some customers have tens of thousands of end customer groups by virtue of being more consumer facing.

Let me know if you have more specific questions about pricing!

Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

#16

Post by desireco42 »

rnvarma wrote: post #15
desireco42 wrote: post #14

I think I would need this if there was a clear pricing. Since there is not, I am assuming it is too expensive. It is impressive the number of databases you support, especially enterprise ones. I still can't use it without more clarity about pricing and usage.

Hi, thanks for the thoughts and glad to hear this could be useful for you! Startups and smaller companies we work with are paying $500/month (pretty cheap for replacing months of engineering working and maintenance). Our pricing then goes up from there depending on number of end customer groups. We work with our clients on how the pricing scales up since some customers have very few end customer groups with tons of u…

Thank you for your response. I work in big corp. I think it is much easier for us to make something ourselves then to go through sales cycle/approvals to get us to use this.

Having said that, I look forward seeing what you will do in next year or two.

Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

#17

Post by samstave »

Dope. Although I think your pricing is high, but so is looker and tableau...

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What would be cool is dynamic dashboards that are launched via QR codes. I am specifically thinking about the cannabis industry:

A few years ago, I was making cannabis labels - which are regulated as to what information you must have on the label, and what I did was a QR code that went to a bit.ly link that then directed to the lab results for the cannabis as it was tested.

This allowed for me to scan a QR on a package, be taken to the lab results and also have interest tracked to the product by just counting who and what was scanned - where and when...

The point is, that it would be interesting to have a QR generated for every dashboard such that if I put a product dashboard up, and printed the QR on whatever product, I could then be taken to that board with a scan of said QR.

This would allow for IRL metrics to physical products and track how many scans happen... and a QR could refer to a custom board based on a variety of inputs...

Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

#18

Post by runako »

rnvarma wrote: post #12
mchusma wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just note that for some people, no pricing means "enterprise"/expensive. (I never even consider a product without transparent pricing myself, but others have had more success with this approach).

Got it - thanks for the feedback. To be transparent, startups and smaller companies we work with are paying $500/month (pretty cheap for replacing months of engineering working and maintenance). Our pricing then goes up from there depending on number of end customer groups. We work with our clients on how the pricing scales up since some customers have very few end customer groups with tons of usage, whereas some cus…

"startups and smaller companies we work with are paying $500/month. Our pricing then goes up from there depending on number of end customer groups." It's totally fine to be transparent about the starting price, since you appear to have one.

would make an excellent entry in a FAQ on the site. Likely would help qualify leads as well.

(I don't have any issue with the pricing, but would also not reach out given no pricing typically means "really expensive".)

Re: Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

#20

Post by rnvarma »

samstave wrote: post #17

Dope. Although I think your pricing is high, but so is looker and tableau... --- What would be cool is dynamic dashboards that are launched via QR codes. I am specifically thinking about the cannabis industry: A few years ago, I was making cannabis labels - which are regulated as to what information you must have on the label, and what I did was a QR code that went to a bit.ly link that then directed to the lab resul…

That is cool use case for customer facing analytics/information!

Every part of what you described other than the actual QR code generation is possible today! For each user input in the dashboard, URL parameters can be defined to default the input to a specific value on page load.

Your point around using the Explo dashboard to show more information is super relevant to one of the longer term ways that we are thinking about our product. Rather than just typical "dashboards", what we've built with Explo is a way to create user interfaces that share and communicate data. And we want to take it a step further since we've realized that a lot of web development and user interfaces is really just visualizing and communicating data.

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