Zeus

I made the classic mistake. I hunkered down in my development bunker (for months) working on launching an MVP on the side. My time was fairly limited which stretched it out even further.

A few months go by and I make a decision:

Let's leverage some accountability and enforce a deadline on launching this project.

So I came across Stikk - a way to set a deadline that gives money to a charity you hate if you don't reach your goal. I chose an anti-environmental charity, set my fiance as the refereee and made the commitment.

A new sense of motivation came over me. It's cliche but setting a hard deadline with some accountability really was effective for me!

Problem I've come across: Technology focused startups want to be data-driven and have a beautiful measurement and analytics stack - but it's hard to prioritize that because it takes time away from building features

I also noticed that Heroku and Digital Ocean are a popular choice as a hosting solution for these startups - mainly because of how easy it is to setup alongside a database. They make it super easy.

Those 2 things above gave me an idea - what if you could do an MVP analytics stack using the data hosted in your Heroku/Digital Ocean database? As long as you know a bit of SQL, you can query your data directly and throw it onto a dashboard?

And so Zeus was born... ⚡