Ask HN: Do you have a public metrics screen and how did you build it?

5 points by baxter001 10y ago ↗ HN

Our nascent sales team have responded pretty well to having their numbers up on a big public https://github.com/evolvedlight/pydashie overview next to their main huddle area.

Having hacked it together out of the first thing I found in a lazy evening I can't help but think there must be more exciting options.

Does anyone here use similar 'big boards' and more importantly are there any other solutions you like? (back-end agnostic preferred)

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iDemonix 10y ago ↗

We use Grafana on top of Graphite for everything. It's great as it has plenty for tech types but is easy enough for management to use effectively.

tedmiston 10y ago ↗

We've put one together very quickly using the data visualization widgets from Keen (https://keen.io).

Another option is the awesome Static Board app made by Panic (http://panic.com/statusboard/). Note that you'll need an iPad to project it.

mtmail 10y ago ↗

My last company used https://www.geckoboard.com/learn/dashboard-examples/ on a large screen TV

yolesaber 10y ago ↗

We had unpaid interns manually running SQL queries during their lunch break against our transactions table and then lighting one of two beacons based on the data we get back: the purple flame (if we have a revenue increase) or the red (meaning our dark lord Zy'kul has finally awoken)