Best Dashboard for Small Startup?

Question

As a founder, I find myself daily navigating through several tools like Google Analytics, Sentry, JIRA, Retool, Firebase, and many others to track various aspects of my startup's operations. This constant switching is starting to become a significant time drain.I'm curious to hear from this community - what dashboards or tools are you using to consolidate this data into a single, easy-to-digest view? What do you like about them, and what are their downsides?

leros · Accepted Answer

I have a little custom app written in Firebase that queries all the other services, generates data summaries in Firestore, and then renders them in a little React app. Yes I have to write code, but I haven't found a decent solution that actually does everything I want in one place.

alxmng · Answer

I would feed everything to my inbox instead of checking things. Push data instead of polling.
Send an email when there’s an error in Sentry.
Send an email when a new user signs up.
Send an email report of your analytics.
Send an email when a ticket is changed in JIRA.
Leveraging your inbox is more versatile than a dashboard. Your inbox is accessible anywhere, doesn’t require more tooling, and can be filtered, prioritized, and searched.

ensemblehq · Answer

Based on the data sources you&rsquo;ve mentioned, there&rsquo;s not really a single dashboard that lets you pull together everything and customize their visuals. Generally I&rsquo;ve seen folks use a simple ETL tool + custom scripts + dashboard tool to bring it together.

eiiot · Answer

I&rsquo;ve used Grafana with varying success for monitoring system metrics & analytics.https://grafana.com/

hayst4ck · Answer

Buy a large dumb screen, hook it up to a mac mini and keep all the pages open with an auto-refresh plugin, alternatively there are plugins that cycle through web pages.

Best Dashboard for Small Startup?

I have a little custom app written in Firebase that queries all the other services, generates data summaries in Firestore, and then renders them in a little React app. Yes I have to write code, but I haven't found a decent solution that actually does everything I want in one place.

Based on the data sources you’ve mentioned, there’s not really a single dashboard that lets you pull together everything and customize their visuals. Generally I’ve seen folks use a simple ETL tool + custom scripts + dashboard tool to bring it together.

I’ve used Grafana with varying success for monitoring system metrics & analytics.
https://grafana.com/

Buy a large dumb screen, hook it up to a mac mini and keep all the pages open with an auto-refresh plugin, alternatively there are plugins that cycle through web pages.