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Show HN: Jig – Live coding your business dashboards (now with demo video) (jigdev.com)

31 points by d--b ↗ HN
Hi again HN,

Last month I posted this Show HN [0], which was well received but most comments were by people asking for a demo / video / docs, because the install step was too much a barrier for entry. So here it is updated with video and (partial) documentation. I really wish I can get people's feedback on the tool itself.

About Jig:

Jig is a live coding environment to quickly create interactive business dashboards / small internal apps.

My target customers are growing startups who spend too much time in Excel/Google Sheets to create their growth reports / retention charts / ad hoc analyses, while they have the coding expertise to compute metrics with a proper programming language.

The language is Javascript, but you don't need to know any html/css/d3 for charts or tables, cause all that part's taken care of. Connecting to databases and or APIs is also straightforward, so all you need to write is code that transform your data in the way you want to present it.

It's meant to be light and nimble (no server / no database needed) and it runs on your computer.

Sorry for those who've seen this before, I won't repost soon.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29655974

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csw-001
Holy cow this is cool! I’ve got a bunch of data in Airtable, and creating these types of dashboards is hell. Can’t wait to see if I can get this wired up and working.
d--b
Nice! Keep in mind that this is beta, so there are some usability issues, and features missing. Please let me know what works and what's a pain. I'll dig into the Airtable API right now to see if that should work well.

I only have a handful of users right now, so I can change the tool quite a lot and fairly quickly based on what people say.

Oh, and I am happy to do early adopter program. I'll give the pro version (whatever that may be) and upgrades free forever to the people who help me out in the early stages.

I haven't started on licensing / payment yet anyways...

d--b
Hey, so the airtable api is a bit strangely designed but I made an example. Shoot me an email edb@jigdev.com, and I'll reply with a jig file that downloads data from a dummy table I've just made.
Artistry121
HI there. I really like this. If I could get this hooked up to a database with some standard filters and host the output it'd be very valuable to me / my team. I use excel often but really just want to pull some stuff into tables.

I'll reach out and would love to be a user / tester / customer. I notice the .dmg doesn't allow me to open on my Mac bc its from an unsigned dev - if anyone else gets that just go to System Preferences and Security to unblock.

d--b
Thanks for the feedback! Yes please do reach out (edb@jigdev.com), let me know which kind of database you want to connect to, and the kind of processing you do.

And yes, thanks for telling the others about the security issue. I'll get those things sorted when I have more time.

cyansmoker
Hello. Where can I report issues?

I download jig on my M1 Macbook and:

1. It is not notarized, therefore you will find it difficult to get significant adoption on this platform, unless you explain what's going on (as other devs have)

2. It did not launch properly and I got this exception:

    Uncaught Exception:
    Error: Cannot create BrowserWindow before app is ready
    at createWindow (/Applications/Jig.app/Contents/Resources/app/.webpack/main/index.js:34614:22)
    at App.<anonymous> (/Applications/Jig.app/Contents/Resources/app/.webpack/main/index.js:34712:5)
    at App.emit (events.js:315:20)
Update: I hard killed the process and was then able to launch it.
d--b
Thanks for the feedback, not sure what happened there. I'll dig into it.