Want Tony Stark's dashboard?
One dashboard for all the stuff you care about, styled the way you want.
For me, that'd mean an epic Iron Man inspired theme (like pictured above).
How it'd work:
- We pull data from the apps you already use (e.g. site analytics, fitness trackers, parental control apps, school grading systems, etc).
- You'll then be able to see everything in one nice-looking dashboard.
- You can share that dashboard with others so they can share in your successes (or help you overcome failures).
Would you use this?
What would you add to your dashboard?
Who would you share your dashboard with?
I first read that as “Tony Hawk’s skateboard” 🤣
Another indiehacker, the person who runs statsout.co is selling their product which does a V1 of this.
Maybe take over from them and grow it?
Thanks Naveen! I'm only considering letting go of Statsout because I've run out of money and need to focus on another project for now. The other thing is I'm seriously contemplating pivoting to a "marketplace" thingy where you can create listings with verified stats pulled from all the important platforms. For acquisitions, advertising, investing, etc.. I've actually even build that functionality into Statsout last year but then focused on dashboard again. The problem with the marketplace idea is I'm not entirely sure about the legality of using the API data to sell accounts/websites/apps and also the chicken and egg problem of building such thing.
you might have something there by thinking about a two-sided marketplace. Have you looked at https://visible.vc/ ? Statsout could be an indiehacker version of that
Yes, I have visible.vc on my "Inspiration/Competition" list. What do you mean by "two-sided" marketplace?
I mean instead of targeting founders/ indiehackers who want to look at their own data, adding someone else with a bigger budget ( investors who need to look at portfolios, agencies who need to report to clients) makes a lot of sense.
We should probably DM and not bore the rest of the people on the thread :)
Do you know the person! I might be interested in that discussion!
cc @bober from the thread below
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/anyone-selling-his-bootstrapped-business-461896af78?commentId=-MW7Zj9lhReikIS4q7ry
Hmm, perhaps. I've gotten some good feedback so far on this idea though, and I think for now I'm not going to pursue it further.
I think dashboards often miss the point of actionability
while at times it's psychologically nice to look at dashboards like self-playing games
what you really want to see most of the times is just what's wrong/needs attention or is significantly different than expectations or norm (and that's better as alerts, if you can have different significant levels attached to them)
I've once read about coloring, you never want green as good, just grey, the color should be reserved for attention-grabbing
as such, I also think maybe a dynamic dashboard that selects graphs to show by how different they are from the norm could be an evolution (there are some sprouts of this with anomaly detection features)
While I do get dashboards as living images or whatnot, you do get blind to them pretty quickly unless you have an active feeling of responsibility to track and act on them (and they change constantly)
So like grades of kids graphs, you might look at them for a week or two once scores are up/updated, the other 300+ days they don't exist much in your perception even if present in front of you multiple times a day or even 24/7
(I used to work a lot with dashboards
I think they are good for past data visualization and decision making for setting alerts but aren't a 24/7 thing some dedicate screens for)
I'll start: I'm a student, so I'd want to be able to see both my grades in school, my fitness goals, and Tutorbook's analytics in a single, nice-looking dashboard.
Some other use-cases I've thought of:
Ex: I'm a parent so I want to be able to see all my children's grades, screen usage, and location history in a single dashboard. Each child should have their own dashboard that I can add to a shared family dashboard to show on our living room TV.
Ex: I'm an indie hacker who wants to keep tabs on both my fitness goals and my website traffic in a single place each morning.
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