I built a dashboard tool for small businesses. The product works. Now the real challenge begins.

I got tired of complicated tools.

Not tired in a dramatic way. Just the quiet, everyday
frustration of opening yet another BI platform, staring
at a 47-step onboarding flow, and thinking — I just want
to see my data in a chart. Why is this so hard?

So I spent the last few months building something simpler.
A dashboard tool for small business owners. No complicated
setup. No data sent to servers. No cloud. Everything runs
in your browser — your data stays on your computer, always.

I called it CarpKO.

It's not trying to compete with Power BI or Tableau. It's
built for people who have a spreadsheet and want to
understand it better — without a three-day setup process.

You can upload a CSV, connect Salesforce, build charts,
create KPIs, model your data, filter it in real time —
and none of it ever leaves your machine.

In a world where every tool wants to become your data's
new home, I wanted to build something that simply refused
to play that game.

Building the product was the fun part.

I work in analytics by day. I built this solo,
evenings and weekends, because I kept watching
business owners suffer through spreadsheets with no
simple way out.

The product works. People who try it get it immediately.
But like most of you know — building something is only
half the journey. Getting it in front of the right people
is a completely different skill.

For those of you who've been here before — how did you
approach awareness in the early days when you had no
existing audience? What actually worked and what was
just noise?

carpko.com — happy to hear thoughts on the product too.