Ask HN: Will you use and pay for this?

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2 years ago

Before Covid I worked for a startup in-office, but during lockdown and what have you, I switched to a remote job. At my old job we used to have an always on dashboard running with some simple indicators, such as uptime, daily orders, response times, loads etc. It was a very useful way to quickly get an overview of whether everything was “OK” or not, especially when someone would come by and ask why something might not be working or was running slow. Now that I work remote I don’t have this anymore, and I don’t think the current solutions out there are built for “personal” dashboards. They are built for shared dashboards that are meant to be looked at from afar, and looking pretty, thus also limiting the screen real estate they can take up.

That got me thinking, what if I made a dashboard just for me, that is optimised for usage on a second screen? I have built that for myself now (at least a very crude version), and the more I built, the more I thought someone else could benefit from this as well. Hence my question, would you use and pay for this?

I am very keen on that it should be built for productivity, rather than design awards. I want to utilise as much of my screen real estate as possible, and are very inspired by awesome wm, i3 and Dear ImGui. Here’s a screenshot of my current dashboard: https://pixeldrain.com/u/HXEpLWNE It can fit up to 96 widgets at once on a single dashboard.

Here’s a small list of some of the integrations I’ve made so far: - GitHub PR’s pending my review - Linear issues - Status pages indications - Plausible Analysis - Custom JSON (currently used in combination with Metabase) Plus a small handful more. Even though I’m an engineer, and the current integrations are obviously tailored to my needs, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to use for sales persons, CEO dashboards or many other use cases as well.

If you’re interested in seeing this project become more than just something running locally on my second monitor, it would help me a lot if you could fill out this form, and share it with anyone else who might be interested: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccQsXMfjJxq6SUYOEYOjhf5VFs3QCwobjmeBlPl9uoiCrtbw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thank you very much! Mads

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