Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup?

Posted by throwaway309155 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @02:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

As a founder, I find myself daily navigating through several tools like Google Analytics, Sentry, JIRA, Retool, Firebase, and many others to track various aspects of my startup's operations. This constant switching is starting to become a significant time drain.

I'm curious to hear from this community - what dashboards or tools are you using to consolidate this data into a single, easy-to-digest view? What do you like about them, and what are their downsides?

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Re:Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup? by leros on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:35PM (#36715614)

I have a little custom app written in Firebase that queries all the other services, generates data summaries in Firestore, and then renders them in a little React app. Yes I have to write code, but I haven't found a decent solution that actually does everything I want in one place.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup? by hayst4ck on Thursday July 13, 2023 @07:24PM (#36717447)

Buy a large dumb screen, hook it up to a mac mini and keep all the pages open with an auto-refresh plugin, alternatively there are plugins that cycle through web pages.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup? by eiiot on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:06PM (#36718218)

I’ve used Grafana with varying success for monitoring system metrics & analytics.

https://grafana.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup? by alxmng on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:46AM (#36719919)

I would feed everything to my inbox instead of checking things. Push data instead of polling.

Send an email when there’s an error in Sentry.

Send an email when a new user signs up.

Send an email report of your analytics.

Send an email when a ticket is changed in JIRA.

Leveraging your inbox is more versatile than a dashboard. Your inbox is accessible anywhere, doesn’t require more tooling, and can be filtered, prioritized, and searched.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup? by MmdYw on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:17AM (#36772687)

Or slack

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Re:Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup? by ensemblehq on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:11PM (#36741412)

Based on the data sources you’ve mentioned, there’s not really a single dashboard that lets you pull together everything and customize their visuals. Generally I’ve seen folks use a simple ETL tool + custom scripts + dashboard tool to bring it together.

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