FnordMetric
Dev tools
metrics dashboard
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful, pretty graphs and design
From 3 comments
Very pretty. I like how you can host it/hack it. I will definitely give it a try. We have a 70" I try and display real-time metrics on, and praise from customers, winning A/B…
uvince on HNBeautiful graphs. I really wanted this to work for me months ago when it was first posted on HN, but ran into trouble getting it setup. Will definitely re-visit - thank you!
plasma on HNI'm glad this got an update. I tried using it a few weeks ago and a few things seemed broken. Glad it's had new life breathed into it. The HTML5 stuff looks especially cool!
tonyarkles on HN
Easy to host and hack on
From 1 comment
Very pretty. I like how you can host it/hack it. I will definitely give it a try. We have a 70" I try and display real-time metrics on, and praise from customers, winning A/B…
uvince on HN
Featured in a free screencast
From 1 comment
Here is a nice free screencast on FnordMetric by Ryan Bates: http://railscasts.com/episodes/378-fnordmetric Worth checking out.
up_and_up on HN
Objections
Dashboards add little business value without good data analysis
From 1 comment
I'm gonna participate in the time-honored HN tradition of being a Debbie Downer. Dashboards suck. Not because they are inherently bad, but because of the return on investment.…
saosebastiao on HN
Setup was troublesome and some features seemed broken
From 2 comments
Beautiful graphs. I really wanted this to work for me months ago when it was first posted on HN, but ran into trouble getting it setup. Will definitely re-visit - thank you!
plasma on HNI'm glad this got an update. I tried using it a few weeks ago and a few things seemed broken. Glad it's had new life breathed into it. The HTML5 stuff looks especially cool!
tonyarkles on HN
Heroku deployment broke due to missing websocket support
From 2 comments
I really like that one. Now if someone could fix this issue we could even deploy it on heroku again: https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric/issues/90
radiospiel on HNBy "someone should fix this issue" you mean "Heroku should add web-socket support". And they are.
sleepyhead on HN
Requests
Fix Heroku deployment issue 90
From 1 comment
I really like that one. Now if someone could fix this issue we could even deploy it on heroku again: https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric/issues/90
radiospiel on HN
Alternatives named
Dashing by Shopify
From 1 comment
Also, check out Dashing at http://shopify.github.com/dashing/ which we released at Shopify. It's optimized to run on your extra laptop screen via…
xal on HN
Leftronic
From 2 comments
Very pretty. I like how you can host it/hack it. I will definitely give it a try. We have a 70" I try and display real-time metrics on, and praise from customers, winning A/B…
uvince on HNI used Leftronic to create a dashboard at a previous company. The built-in widgets were not as flexible as I’d have liked but good enough, and it was pretty convenient to move…
roryokane on HN
Optimizely, Lokad, Gurobi
From 1 comment
I'm gonna participate in the time-honored HN tradition of being a Debbie Downer. Dashboards suck. Not because they are inherently bad, but because of the return on investment.…
saosebastiao on HN