I thought it might be useful to offer a hosted dashboards for businesses so I began working on one that would consume data from some common APIs that many businesses - particularly startups - will be plugged into. The service will launch into a mvp beta in one month with about a dozen APIs including Google Analytics, Basecamp, Commission Junction, Pingdom, ChartBeat & MailChimp [3]. One thing it's not launching with is a custom data upload facility but I've got a pretty good idea of how that's going to look and it'll be added shortly after.
The question I'm asking today - what are the most important metrics to your business and how do you currently track them?
[1] http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ and discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1177227
[2] http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/dashboard-on-a-shoestring.htm and discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1189203
[3] http://www.geckoboard.com (you can register your name to be part of the beta)