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Show HN: Safely share and compare your Startup Engineer Salary

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Hi HN,

This is a mixture between a Show and Ask HN. I really appreciate your time and thoughts on this.

My name is Alexis and I would like to show you something I've been working on on the technical side: It's called Huddle Metrics.

Huddle Metrics is basically a safe place for you to anonymously share and compare sensitive data with your community. Sort of like a very controlled collaborative spreadsheet, really. Or a survey. But hopefully better.

Think engineering salary and your equity in the company.

Information that you track yourself but that's too taboo to share. If a pool of the data existed, however, it would be beneficial to you contributing because you would get to see what's market.

After running a pilot Huddle throughout this year with a bunch of startups, my friend Adrian and I created a system that allows you to create any sort of Huddle or "Data Community" for different topics.

For demo-purposes I've created a Huddle around Startup Engineer Salaries because I've seen this discussion come up a bunch of times and I'm an engineer myself.

To get an idea please check out http://demo.huddlemetrics.com/start/1040592633 (This is super raw and imperfect but I feel it works well enough)

To the non-engineering public here at HN: I'd love to open the discussion further than the demo and hear what you think would be other immensely valuable metrics to share and compare with the HN community.

Again, thank you for your time and consideration and please comment away with ideas, criticism and metrics you would like to see shared!

With best wishes,

Alexis

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castig
Looks great! Can I sign up on this demo site and get a working account? Or is it for businesses only?
interleave
Good questions. This is really just a demo, but if there is more interest I'll happily create a production version!

But it's definitely not just for businesses. You could create a Huddle around pretty much any interesting topic/metric.

What would be an important metric that matters to you?

zck
The first thing I see is that in the bar chart, you've sorted the salaries ASCIIbetically. This is a problem^1, as this is not what users expect.

I can't exactly put my finger on it, but I'm finding the filtering confusing. Perhaps because I can't see all the data at first, I'm not sure what I expect to see after filtering.

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort...

interleave
Gotcha, on load, the table is sorted by columns[0] but it should sort salaries by numerical value when you click on that columns' header and not ASCII (Thank you for the link!)

On the landing-page you can't see the pagination but if you click through to the demo that's there and maybe that way less confusing. I get it though. The filtering isn't perfect yet and it's good to hear what you're struggling with to understand.