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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 rnvarma »

sdesol wrote: post #35
dataviz1000 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking at where highcharts are today, I might have jumped the gun on that comment as they have come a long way. Three years ago we were using them. After I built our React Native version of the data dashboard I was giving the hard requirement to implement charts on mobile of which there weren't any out of the box solutions for at the time. Nonetheless, if you find yourself needing to implement custom charts especial…

> I do recommend considering visx. Just to add another recommendation to the mix. I'm an extremely happy echarts user. I recently had somebody comment about the graph that was in my product as they were surprised by how it was done, which goes to show how flexible and powerful echarts is. If you go to https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith... and look at the timeline chart, you can see that it i…

This is super cool, thanks for sharing! I am always excited to see dashboards in different large products because it helps us understand how to push our product to make it so that the dashboard is buildable in Explo.

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

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Post by sdesol »

rnvarma wrote: post #41
sdesol wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I do recommend considering visx. Just to add another recommendation to the mix. I'm an extremely happy echarts user. I recently had somebody comment about the graph that was in my product as they were surprised by how it was done, which goes to show how flexible and powerful echarts is. If you go to https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith... and look at the timeline chart, you can see that it i…

This is super cool, thanks for sharing! I am always excited to see dashboards in different large products because it helps us understand how to push our product to make it so that the dashboard is buildable in Explo.

No problem. I'm also planning on open sourcing the frontend when I have the available resources as the value is really with the data. If others want to learn from what I've done and/or use it to integrate into their own solutions, that's perfectly fine by me.

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

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Post by anchen976 »

vincentmarle wrote: post #21

> Our current platform connects directly to SQL databases and warehouses. We don't copy, cache, or manage any data. Well that may be convenient for you but since these dashboards are external, does scalability become the responsibility of your customers? I can’t imagine thousands of users all hammering expensive analytical queries on a single unoptimized replica will scale very well.

Scalability is definitely something we're thinking about. Agreed that a single replica DB probably won't work well after a certain extent. Currently we do help customers to set up a data warehouse and optimized data model in Snowflake or other sources if needed.

We also refer customers to services or contractors who help them set up a their data infra to fit their needs as it's not the core focus of our product.

We have also thought about implementing a caching layer to improve performance, although that adds a few hurdles regarding data privacy and pulling live data.

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

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Post by gervwyk »

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…

This is a really cool use case! Especially with for environmental and ethical conscious brands.

We sort of do the same thing with QR codes in a factory at the moment where we trace production batches, stock management and R&D test data to link the label factory items back to the MRP data and dashboards. This was implemented using Lowdefy [0] - interestingly we also started Lowdefy out of the need for customer facing dashboards and have since widened the scope into a range of other things aswell.

This is a really cool use case! Especially with for environmental and ethical conscious brands.

We sort of do the same thing with QR codes in a factory at the moment where we trace production batches, stock management and R&D test data to link the label factory items back to the MRP data and dashboards. This was implemented using Lowdefy [0] - interestingly we also started Lowdefy out of the need for customer facing dashboards and have since widened the scope into a range of other things aswell.

Explo looks really cool! Congrats on the launch. I would love to see some videos on creating dashboards especially filters etc.

[0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

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

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Post by garymlin »

djyaz1200 wrote: post #38

Very cool! We've spent a lot of time + money doing this ourselves. I'd be interested to understand the pricing model and self serve options. I'd also be interested in adding alarms so we could use this to monitor our system status. We do that now but without visuals and it would be nice to have a slick internal status page with graphs and alerts for unexpected values.

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.

We are definitely hoping to launch self serve in the near future but have decided not to while we iterate on the core features and ensure things work with a qualified and controlled set of customers. However, it is helpful to understand how important self serve is to developers.

Adding in monitoring and alerts is something we are working on and has been requested previously. With regards to monitoring your system status specifically, we would likely need to investigate a means to connect Explo to where this data is generated or being collected. Explo would need to query this source on a certain cadence (probably pretty frequently) to have high fidelity monitoring. Currently we pull the data via queries and data isn't pushed to us (doesn't make sense in the current model, but is something we've chatted internally about).

Would love to chat more about the push model to better understand how Explo can plug into your system status. Is there a way that we could connect to the system status and pull the necessary information? Or can you push the system status data somewhere that we can then process?

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

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Post by anchen976 »

davnicwil wrote: post #48

> We applied to YC with an idea in the restaurant space (we knew nothing about restaurants) Very off topic, but feels like there's an interesting story here! Can you elaborate?

Our initial idea was a platform to digitize the restaurant cookbook! We wanted any chef or restaurant to be able to publish recipes and other food content on our platform.

For consumers, this would be a curated recipe platform with recipes from the best chefs as oppose to random users. For chefs and restaurant owners, this would give them an outlet to publish recipes and promote their work without the need to sign book deals and contracts that are often very unfavorable (unless you're already a celebrity chef).

We tried pitching various iterations of this idea to get restaurants onboard, but unfortunately we weren't able to sell them a platform that didn't immediately boost sales.

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

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Post by pklee »

CuriousPerson23 wrote: post #24

Hi Explo team. Congrats on the launch! My previous company and my new company both provide insights as a service, so customer facing dashboards are the core product, and therefore this is very interesting to me. A few questions for the team: 1. I see that startups pay $500/month. How do you compare that to Metabase which is $85/month (or $385 if you remove the Metabase attribution)? 2. Do you, or do you plan to, offe…

Would love to understand this more. pklee.hackernews@gmail.com
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