Ducksboard
Productivity
dashboards
SHOW HN2012
45points
31comments
#524of 1,677 in 2012
Top 32%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
8 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean UI and widget style preferred over Geckoboard
From 2 comments
I have played around with Geckoboard and I don't love it. I like the UI of Ducksboard more and am inclined to continue with it. My biggest wish of these services is that they…
dclaysmith on HNHi lamby, I'm one of the co-founders at Ducksboard. We approach things from a different angle than Geckoboard. * As far as I know, they just visualize whatever comes from their…
aitorciki on HN
Real-time push and historic charts
From 2 comments
Hi lamby, I'm one of the co-founders at Ducksboard. We approach things from a different angle than Geckoboard. * As far as I know, they just visualize whatever comes from their…
aitorciki on HNThe main beef I have with geckoboard is a litany of embarrassing unresolved bugs but these features sound pretty cool. Am trying out your API tutorial right now.
lamby on HN
Useful API for integrations
From 2 comments
Hi lamby, I'm one of the co-founders at Ducksboard. We approach things from a different angle than Geckoboard. * As far as I know, they just visualize whatever comes from their…
aitorciki on HNHave signed up, played with the tutorial and now persuading my management to pay for the full account and use Ducksboard as our primary dashboard. Great work guys.
plant42 on HN
Objections
Widget layout does not use full screen width
From 1 comment
I have played around with Geckoboard and I don't love it. I like the UI of Ducksboard more and am inclined to continue with it. My biggest wish of these services is that they…
dclaysmith on HN
Websocket connection drops and no data shows in widgets for some users
From 1 comment
I don't see any data in the widgets, the javascript console tells me that the websocket closes and tries to reconnect every 10 seconds or so. Browser is chromium 18, let me know…
manveru on HN
Slow or unresponsive support
From 1 comment
No answer after three days. Ticket is https://support.ducksboard.com/requests/824 [Edit: I just noticed that this isn't even visible to people not logged in, I'm not even gonna…
manveru on HN
Bugs on Android and with the video fullscreen button
From 2 comments
We've been looking for a dashboard for our engineering group to get some better real-time visibility into the health of our systems (been weighing internal run and hosted…
ismarc on HNCool thanks! One suggestion though. The video on your home page. Allow full screen :) The full screen button didn't do anything and had to navigate to vimeo to watch it full…
Urgo on HN
Requests
Increment values via the API instead of pushing totals
From 1 comment
New APIs look great! I would love to see the ability to increment a value via the API instead of pushing the total. We have a lot of events we would love to track, but don't want…
sync on HN
Bitbucket support
From 1 comment
I see lots of GitHub support... any plans to show BitBucket some love? (We HG users need metrics too, you know...)
manuscreationis on HN
Allow target attribute on links
From 1 comment
All in all, minor issues, but: you filter out "target" attributes on URLs. I have links in my dashboard that I want to automatically open in another window so I don't close the…
fomojola on HN
Public push interface
From 1 comment
All in all, minor issues, but: you filter out "target" attributes on URLs. I have links in my dashboard that I want to automatically open in another window so I don't close the…
fomojola on HN
Questions
Rate limits and data volume limits
From 2 comments
We've been looking for a dashboard for our engineering group to get some better real-time visibility into the health of our systems (been weighing internal run and hosted…
ismarc on HNDepending on the Android version and browser you're using, the webapp won't work properly. It's working on Android 3 and 4 stock browser, as well as Chrome Beta. Some browsers on…
aitorciki on HN
How to see account status and trial expiry
From 1 comment
Where do I see my account details like account age, (non-)expiry date, data-rate (or other) restrictions for my tier, sales page describing what cool features I should pay the…
Sukotto on HN
Why switch from Geckoboard
From 1 comment
Can you tell me why I should move from geckoboard? (Not being snarky, I am not very happy with Geckoboard)
lamby on HN
Alternatives named
Geckoboard
From 2 comments
Can you tell me why I should move from geckoboard? (Not being snarky, I am not very happy with Geckoboard)
lamby on HNPaul from Geckoboard here. Would love to hear how we can do better. Happy to respond here or you can shoot me a mail, paul at geckoboard.com
pmjoyce on HN