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Show IH: Create simple charts super fast and for free!

https://chartsfactory.com/

Show IH: Create simple charts super fast and for free!

Hello IH,

My name is Ecehan. This is my first post on IH. I've been silently following this community for a while now and I am thankful for all the insights and experiences you have shared with others, such as myself. I've learned so much from this community.

I resigned my full stack web developer job in October and currently I'm a freelancer living in Antalya, Turkey. It's a very sunny city and great for freelancers and digital nomads.

Approximately 1 month ago I started to build my first side project. It's name is Charts Factory.

My last company that I worked for 2 and a half years had a product like google data studio. That is a really successful product in Turkey and they sold this software to Ministry of Health and Turkish Statistical Institute.

But you need to have an database or a big data to use it. I thought that this idea is great but a student or a simple white collar worker can not use it as they don't have any database.

So I build this web application for free. It requires no registration or no data. You can easily make a simple chart by adding some data by typing manually to the form.

Other than that you can change the theme as you want, you can download the chart as an image an use it in your own presentations/homeworks. You can create a link and share it with your friends and colleagues.

Right now this web application provides 8 different chart type: Bar, Horizontal Bar, Line, Area, Pie, Doughnut, Funnel and Pyramid. But I want to add more chart types in future.

I decided to add more features like sorting operations and adding second dimension, adding different colors to each bar in near future.

Feel free to visit and play with the charts and please give me some feedback.

https://chartsfactory.com/

submitted this linkon January 29, 2019
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    Hi Ecehan, it has catchy name and look very nice.

    Few thoughts:

    • link to share graph is shown only if data are manually generated, I would show it also on the initial page as it is cool feature.
    • I overlooked download icon even though I knew that it is somewhere there
    • 'email' Icon for 'share your graph' on the first page is misleading
    • Last sentence in 'Get in touch' could continue '... or just say hi :)'
    • I agree with @rogovdm that real time editing could be handy
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      Hi Jana, thank you for your good words!

      • I will show the link to share button initially.
      • I will redesign the download button and make sure everyone see it.
      • You're right, the 'email' icon should be changed to an appropriate icon.
      • I will make the change in 'Get in touch' part.
      • Real time editing is definitely on top of my list :)

      Your feedback is so useful for me and thank you so much again!

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        Hi Ecehan, you are welcome :)

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    Nice!

    My first feeling was to have a real-time update while editing charts. That would be awesome to have.

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      Thanks for your feedback! I'm adding this feature on my to do list!

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    Great product. Sorting feature should be done. It can be very useful. And the edit form may be designed better. By the way it works on mobile but there are some design issues on mobile devices like big buttons etc.

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      Thanks! Yes, I also think that sorting feature must be done. It can make the product more usable. And I will fix the issues on mobile right away.

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    Brilliant idea that the product is free for students. Love the idea to change the color of the whole page when changing the theme.

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      Thank you mate! And I want this product to be free all the time.

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