Ask HN: I wrote CricketGraph MVP in the browser – should I continue?

1 points by jeffreportmill1 7y ago ↗ HN

One of my favorite apps for the Mac in the late 80's was CricketGraph. I would regularly use it to spice up documents in school - I'm certain it improved my score by a letter grade in certain classes. Since then, charting has been done a thousands times, but I've always wanted to take my run at it:

http://reportmill.com/rmc

This version pops up quickly in the browser, supports fun animations and interactive effects, has a built in designer in every chart and runs in browser, on desktop and on server (in JavaScript and Java). I've only got a couple of months invested in it, but with so much competition out there, I don't know how much further I should take it. I'd love to spend years adding many fun new features, but I don't know if there is a way to turn it into a day job.

Any thoughts?

jeff at reportmill

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jeffreportmill1 7y ago ↗

Here is the link as a proper URL: http://reportmill.com/rmc

samstave 7y ago ↗

I cant click on "data set" or the other tabs in the sandbox.

I have been building some charts in Google Sheets - Maybe you can make an add-on for sheets such that you can point this at sheets as the data-set?

That's a great idea. Though I wonder if I would have a cross-origin problem accessing another site (I'm a bit new to JavaScript).