Show HN: A tool that helps you focus on startup metrics that matter

by obunu • 8 years ago

91 28 8 years ago

obunu12• 8 years ago

Leandro here, co-founder of Unubo.

We created Unubo to provide more cohesion between all of the online services we use - mostly in silos, switching from one tool to the other.

In a nutshell, it brings together your data from places like Stripe and Google Analytics, to help you make sense of what's happening in your startup.

Here for questions and feedback.

tdonia• 8 years ago

Just a heads up on the site itself -- the height/width/clipping of your .header-background is glitching in Chrome for me so everything in the content body is blurry. Looks nice when i disable that element!

obunu12• 8 years ago

Appreciate the heads up, thank you! We'll look into this.

ryanbertrand• 8 years ago

10 day trials are rare, what made you choose 10 days?

Looks cool, will check it out.

obunu12• 8 years ago

Just a gut feeling. 7 kind of felt too short, and 14-30 a bit too long. We feel that you'll experience the benefit in 10 days. We can always adjust if needs be.

danellis• 8 years ago

Too long by what metric? Personally, I dislike short trials. If I get distracted by something more important before I have time to fully investigate the product, I'm likely to just forget about it when the trial prematurely ends.

aboutruby• 8 years ago

Kind of weird that upvotes and comments on Product Hunt are the first listed metrics. I guess Twitter/Reddit/Facebook/etc. should be listed too? Or is that to please the crowd for the Product Hunt launch :) ?

obunu12• 8 years ago

For the Launch view we used Product Hunt as a starting point, and yes of course we're targeting it specifically to PH. Our platform is very flexible, so if enough people request particular integrations, we'll add it.

smcguinness• 8 years ago

Put up an example board of all the metrics that a user will see prior to them needing to sign-up.

I'm not sure if the design is an all or nothing approach - meaning PH, Stripe, and GA are required, but if there is the ability to position the metric views on boards, having an example for users to look at or even themes based on type of products would be interesting.

obunu12• 8 years ago

Good feedback, letting people see the board beforehand - thank you.

ghostbrainalpha• 8 years ago

It would be crazy cool if the "Example board" had the real data for your company.

If we could track your progress using the tool you are selling it makes it really fun to root for you!

I know that is really difficult information to give out though, especially when one of the numbers isn't what you would want to advertise.

jamp897• 8 years ago

It’s missing customer acquisition cost, this is pretty important imo because it gives you a framework to measure and explore ways to improve it.

obunu12• 8 years ago

If the data we need to calculate it is exposed, and there is a demand, then this is something we can add.

Good feedback, thank you.

Yabood• 8 years ago

I hope the founding team doesn't mind some feedback here. The launch stage doesn't offer much value because it doesn't provide anything actionable to help "amplify" the launch. It would be great for example if you had a unified inbox feature where all social media mentions and blogs are dumped and sorted by importance so you can reply to them quickly and efficiently. You only have a small window to work with when you launch and being passive (watching signups, pages views, etc) is probably not the best way to make the most of it.

As for the other three stages, they are very Stripe heavy. If I don't have Stripe, then I can't use your product and if I had stripe I'd probably start looking at other solutions as well like Baremetrics (which by the way has a great example/demo board as someone suggested).

obunu12• 8 years ago

Hi there, don't mind feedback at all. I think it's implied by posting here. Thanks first of all, for this well considered feedback.

This marks our starting point, so yes. At the moment, the Launch view serves as a place, that unifies the things you check during a Product Hunt launch, nothing more.

Many people use Product Hunt, many people use Stripe, so we started there. The way we've set things up however, is entirely flexible, so as long as useful data is exposed via API, there's something we can do with it.

So, now we've launched, and then the real work begins. We'll listen to all feedback, and then see what views and integrations to work on next.

We can implement new views quite quickly, so watch this space. If you want to stay in touch with what we're doing, feel free to join us on Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAE9hRjYlBpzqRr7FyA

Again, thanks for your feedback, it's appreciated.

lbj2• 8 years ago

Am I seeing this right? They're selling insights into your data, but providing no examples or previews of how that data might be visualized? If thats the case and its not just my browser acting up, Im not going put time and effort into running a trial.

If the team is reading along: You have to make me SEE some actual value output here. Time is precious.

obunu12• 8 years ago

Who are you referring to when you say "They're" in relation to the selling of data. Just to clarify either way, we will never sell any kind of data. This is something we take very seriously.

Otherwise, the feedback on seeing an example is valid and noted. Thanks for taking the time!

hndamien• 8 years ago

They are referring to your company, and the "selling" being what you are selling to your customer - aka - your product.

lbj2• 8 years ago

Just to clarify, I never said you sell data. I said you sell insights.

raphaelj• 8 years ago

Interestingly, they show a capture of a "bad" dashboard on their "About us" page that IMO displays way more useful information than what their product can offer as of today:

https://unubo.com/static/about/bad-dashboard.png

Sure it's not Material design, but who cares?

obunu12• 8 years ago

What we're doing is stripping everything, then only adding the immediate things we want to see, in a way that's glanceable. To each their own, some want tons of information, we don't.

PaulHoule• 8 years ago

https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...

Show HN: A tool that helps you focus on startup metrics that matter

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