Geckoboard Blog

Love to see a fellow UCLA CS student on HN. I've been using http://www.geckoboard.com/ for a while. Their integration with AWS is what's kept me with them.

I like: https://public.ducksboard.com/BFVzKVPeOoWRsL0VZ8MZ/ I love the look previously mentioned https://www.leftronic.com/ and http://www.geckoboard.com/

London, UK | Geckoboard https://www.geckoboard.com | Full time | ON SITE (but some working from home is not a problem) Geckoboard is a successful, growing 30-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant real-time dashboards solve a tricky, important problem for thousands of paying subscribers, by taking the complexity out of connecting to their data and making that information simple for everyone to interpret at a glance. As a result, our customers unlock data they didn't know they had, connect people and join up projects, and make better decisions faster. We are looking for a front-end developer who is excited about tail-call optimisation in ES6, uses TDD consistently or wants to learn to do so, and builds super-usable single-page applications. Any React knowledge is a plus but we are happy for you to learn with us. Please see our jobs page for details: https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/ We’re constantly striving to ensure that we offer the most encouraging, supportive and efficient environment possible. We want everyone on the team to participate in making our architectural decisions. The whole team is involved in prioritising and evaluating our work and we regularly program in pairs to share knowledge, promote collaboration, and improve code quality. We don't just pay lip service to work-life balance, we actively and strongly encourage it. Flexible working hours and the ability to regularly work from home let you work in a way that fits you and your…

London, United Kingdom - Geckoboard - https://www.geckoboard.com - ON SITE (but some working from home is no problem) Geckoboard is a successful, growing 25-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant real-time dashboards solve a tricky and important problem for thousands of paying subscribers, by taking the complexity out of connecting to data and making that information simple for everyone to interpret at a glance. As a result, our customers unlock data they didn't know they had, connect people and join up projects, and make better decisions faster. We are looking for a front-end developer who uses TDD consistently or wants to learn to do so and builds super usable single-page applications. Any React knowledge is a plus but we are happy for you to learn with us. Please see our jobs page for details: https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/ We’re constantly striving to ensure that we offer the most encouraging, supportive and efficient environment possible. We want everyone on the team to participate in making architectural decisions. The whole team is involved in prioritising and evaluating work, and we regularly program in pairs to share knowledge, promote collaboration, and improve code quality. We don't just pay lip service to work-life balance, we actively and strongly encourage it. Flexible working hours and the ability to regularly work from home let you work in a way that fits you and your family, and we have generous paternity and maternity leave…

The design is absolutely incredible. I started using TicTrac [1] a little while ago, but it's not great. I hate that I have to set up and arrange everything myself. I really want to just wire up my accounts, and let a professional designer show me the information in a beautiful way. Other dashboards like Geckoboard [2] and TicTrac only let you dump a bunch of boxes on a page. The sports page on AprilZero is an amazing example of a cohesive design, where everything is laid out in a far more useful way. For the last month, I've been tracking what I eat with MyFitnessPal, and have been tracking my weight every morning with a Withings wifi scale. It's extremely powerful when the data is collected effortlessly, and for the first time in my life, I'm on track to really change some unhealthy habits. Entering food in MFP is still a PITA, but I've managed to keep it up so far. It's been one of my dream projects to design a personal dashboard like this, especially in the style of the Iron Man movies. This website has exceeded everything I imagined. I hope it becomes open source one day, and that I can contribute a ton of new integrations and sections. Or if not, please let me pay to use this service! [1]: https://tictrac.com [2]: https://www.geckoboard.com

Welcome to the space guys, it looks like a great product, I've signed up for the beta and I'm really looking forward to checking it out. What follows is by no means meant as a slight on the creators of the product, it looks like they've done a sterling job and I wish them every success. I launched an almost identical product (in terms of functionality) http://geckoboard.com into private beta a little over a month ago and have been steadily improving it since then (adding a bunch of new APIs including Freshbooks, GitHub and an API with the ability to load custom data to your status board). Despite being first to market, accumulating a couple of thousand beta testers and reaching out to TC we only get a one line mention in the article. Getting on Techcrunch et al. is not the be-all and end-all but as a single founder outside of Silicon Valley situations like this reinforce the notion that you're swimming against the tide. It's inevitable that sort of thing happens but it really does go to show one of the prime benefits of joining YC; the exposure and access you get is second to none and the best leg up a startup could hope for.

I really rate this book so it’s great to see it getting some publicity! I think one misnomer is that to do stats right you just need to do the math right. But what analysis is done in the first place, the overall methodology and how that data is interpreted are more often where we go wrong. At Geckoboard we’ve been trying to raise awareness of some of these issues. Heres a poster we put together: https://www.geckoboard.com/learn/data-literacy/statistical-fallacies/

Looks like a hosted equivalent of GeckoBoard[0], which I have used successfully for uptime and key metric boards that are displayed in common room dedicated TV screens etc. One key is getting decent render performance on low-spec hardware (i.e. a Rasberry Pi). Not something you usually think about when building/evaluating a web app, but those low-spec "boxes" crawl on most modern web-sites. Yet there shouldn't be any reason why a dashboard couldn't be rendered on them! I wonder how Cyclotron performs with it's JS heavy front-end on those types of dedicated dashboard devices? [0] https://www.geckoboard.com/

Will their next post be "How we were building something that already existed for the last 10 months"? Because this a lot like https://www.geckoboard.com/

Geckoboard(https://geckoboard.com) - Shoreditch, London, UK We’re a growing 20-person startup based in Shoreditch, East London. Our SaaS product, Geckoboard, makes it easy for businesses to visualise their key metrics on elegant, real-time dashboards. Our customers include large and small tech companies, governmental and non-profit organisations. We are looking for a front-end developer who can help us improve data visualisation and user experience on our product. For more details, check out https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/#op-26828-software-engineer-fronten…

There are tons - both open source and hosted. - Tableau isn't free but its very easy and popular in businesses these days - Freeboard - open source http://freeboard.io/ - Geckoboard - hosted https://www.geckoboard.com/ - Dashing - open source http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ - http://www.datamation.com/open-source/50-open-source-replacements-for-… - 50 Open Source Replacements for Proprietary Business Intelligence Software (many likely have web interfaces)

Does anyone use http://www.geckoboard.com/ for this type of thing, out of interest?

Just an FYI that Dashing - http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ (Open Source) and http://www.geckoboard.com/ (Paid) already have tons of modules available if you're looking to get going right away. I also have a Raspberry Pi powering our dashboards but it really struggles to render some javascript, especially if we switch between tabs every 30 seconds. Any ideas for the cheapest possible way to power the TVs other than a Raspberry Pi? Edit: Also https://ducksboard.com/ exists as well as a paid option

SEEKING FREELANCER We're looking for an Android developer in London, UK for an initial two week project. About us: Geckoboard help companies make better decisions using their data. (http://www.geckoboard.com) Email: rob at geckoboard.com

For keeping track of signups/revenue/expenses/profit on a daily/monthly basis, I use custom widgets on a GeckoBoard status board. They poll a handful of scripts that combine some SQL queries into various products' customer/payment databases, with arrays of fixed expenses and some formulas to estimate variable ones like payment transaction fees for the current month. For actual bookkeeping, QuickBooks Pro. http://www.geckoboard.com

I dont see the point of this app. Dashboards with far better API integrations: http://ducksboard.com/ http://www.geckoboard.com/ http://www.telemetryapp.com/ http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ When I say I don't see the point, why would you limit the dashboard to an app? web browser based delivery is far better suited to this concept - The ability to display the boards on any size screen or hardware.

Is this substantially different than GeckoBoard? http://www.geckoboard.com/

Hey thanks, That's my site! I don't have much traffic at the moment so I was surprised to see some referrers from HN. To give credit where it's due, the front page was inspired by these guys: http://www.geckoboard.com/

In reverse order. 2) Using something like Geckoboard would probably be helpful. http://www.geckoboard.com/ 1) The ones I've seen (not in person) are for the purpose of informing the entire team about company/project status at a glance. Presumably when everyone sees the stats, optimizing for them is much more top of mind.

This sounds a lot like Geckoboard with some plugins: http://www.geckoboard.com/

Your product looks like Geckoboard: http://www.geckoboard.com/

The charcoal background made me think of Geckoboard (http://www.geckoboard.com/), but that's more of a dashboard metrics visualizer than a task list.

If you don't want to build your own there are also a couple SaaS solutions: http://www.leftronic.com/ - A YC company that productizes the Panic concept. Very impressive list of investors. http://www.geckoboard.com/ - Slick looking and comes with access to a bunch of core services.

I just happened to be scouring around for a good JS charting library yesterday. Does anyone here have any experience with one? I am trying to build a dashboard, much like http://www.geckoboard.com/ and I need to be able to display nice charts (all kinds - bar, stacked, pie) with real-time data. I looked some into flot (http://code.google.com/p/flot/) which uses the canvas, and Raphael (http://raphaeljs.com/) which uses SVG (and is not really a charting library) but they have gRaphael for that purpose. But with the plethora of options out there, I figured I ought to ask here at HN. Any suggestions, anyone?

Geckoboard: http://www.geckoboard.com/ --- "a hosted, real-time status board serving up the indicators that matter to you." Freshbooks: http://www.freshbooks.com/ --- "painless billing" Linode: http://www.linode.com/ --- "Deploy and Manage Linux Virtual Servers in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in minutes with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location."

Geckoboard | London, UK | Software Engineers | Full-time | VISA | Onsite At Geckoboard, we're helping companies all around the world make use of their data by enabling them to easily build TV dashboards that align their teams on the things that matter most. Our product integrates with almost 100 applications and our customer include the likes of Slack, Dashlane, and Skyscanner. We've been busy reimagining the way our customers get their data in Geckoboard and have a lot of interesting and creative work to do to shape their experiences. Right now, we're looking for curious problem solvers to help us on this journey. --- Openings: Backend Go Developer | https://jobs.lever.co/geckoboard/27c7e6ff-a02a-4221-a02f-e1921dc8c804?… Senior Front-End Developer | https://jobs.lever.co/geckoboard/c857d2a3-d784-4d7e-a72e-486b829e6dba?… --- Looking for a junior front-end developer role? (full-time) Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/geckoboard/e253479c-6f23-4c03-97e8-998880a6621f?… Note: Our junior positions are only open to people based in London with right to work in the UK. --- A little about Geckoboard: We're a small but growing 40 person start up in Shoreditch passionate about making data useful! We have a strong culture with a focus on building a great product our customers love, work life balance and personal…

Geckoboard | Ruby Back-End Developer | ONSITE | London UK We’re looking for a full-time Ruby Developer to work on our back-end microservices. Geckoboard's view layer is handled by client-side JavaScript, so all our Ruby apps are APIs. Our microservice architecture has evolved over the years and we're looking for a pragmatic Rubyist who will apply best practices to the system as a whole. Thousands of businesses use Geckoboard to build TV Dashboards that help drive growth and focus teams, by taking the complexity out of connecting their data and understanding it at a glance. The role involves both greenfield work to develop new features, as well as the ability to rethink and re-architect our existing systems. As our understanding of micro-services has changed over time, we've discovered patterns and practices for building scalable and resilient services, so even if you've not worked with micro-services before, you'll be able to hit the ground running. Oh, and did I mention that we have a 5* and 100% approval rate on Glassdoor? Get in touch direct ([email protected]) or apply here: https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/#op-201233-ruby-backend-developer

London, UK | Geckoboard | Front End Developer Geckoboard is a successful and growing 30-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant, real-time dashboards solve a difficult but valuable problem for thousands of paying subscribers. We are looking for a full-time front-end engineer with experience building single page applications. You'll be passionate about working as part of a team, and learning from others through pair programming and peer review. You'll be comfortable liaising with our product designer on design and implementation. You’ll relish the opportunity to continually improve an existing product through refactoring and the removal/addition of features. More than anything, we value candidates who are excited about picking up new skills and sharing what they’ve learned with the rest of the team - for example, none of us knew Go or React.js a short time ago, but now both are key parts of our stack. We love people with a keen attention to detail and the willingness to apply it in shaping all aspects of our product. https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/

I haven't used it but http://www.geckoboard.com looks good.

Getting a good dashboard is really a hard task. It varies from business to business. The important thing is to identify some metrics and KPIs you want to be aware of. Initially, it would show very few metrics or charts that can give you a quick snapshot of the business so you can see how it's performing very quickly. But it should be possible to dig into more data and visualize it in many different ways to get better insights. On most apps I've worked, we've always opted to build out own dashboard because there was no out-of-the-box solution. We would gather data from inside the app and also use some external services like mixpanel or google analytics. Also, lately I've been moving towards more custom charts and graphs made with d3.js which is extremely powerful. Nowadays there are a couple of products that let you craft your own dashboard like https://www.leftronic.com/ and http://www.geckoboard.com/ You can get some ideas there and by looking similar products. MixPanel and KissMetrics also provide some inspiration. And doing a search on dribbble can give you some ideas also: http://dribbble.com/search?q=dashboard A really good book on data visualization is "Designing with Data" by Brian Suda: http://www.designingwithdata.com/