Show HN: Glance - Dashboard for Monitoring Personalized Data

https://www.glancedat.com/

by neilsharma • 14 years ago

26 15 14 years ago

glancedat.com

ebaum• 14 years ago

intriguing idea

dlitwak• 14 years ago

So kind of like a hootsuite but for your personal life instead of for your company it seems?

voltagex_• 14 years ago

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hooande• 14 years ago

"(the first 30 days are free!)"

Why? I don't understand the arbitrary 30 day limit, or the need to be charging at all for the basic service. It seems like the best way to gain adoption for a product like this is word of mouth. As a totally free product, they could get thousands or tens of thousands of users in a short time period. Real people having positive experiences with a product is the best marketing there is.

The strength of glance seems be design and UI. Charging a monthly fee doesn't seem to be the best way to take advantage of that strength. Nice UI products do best when they have lots of people using them. I feel like it's too much trouble to set it up knowing that I'll have to make a purchase decision after 30 days, (not to mention that it doesn't say what the price will ultimately be). This looks like a cool product, but this might not be the right business model.

jborden132• 14 years ago

Maybe this is their monetization strategy. Instead of incurring the high costs of supporting a large load of unpaid users and then trying to monetize the user base from there - maybe they want to get to revenue quickly.

alamgir_mand2• 14 years ago

I think it's up for debate as to whether you should test pricing in the MVP stage. In this case, I think it's in the best interest to leave pricing out of the question and first inquire as to whether people find it useful.

http://qr.ae/1ygLq - my answer on quora regarding testing pricing while in MVP stage.

mflindell• 14 years ago

I like this! It would look REALLY good as an open source project, not sure if I would pay for something like this. Focus on finding power users of multiple web apps and see what they need and promote it from that app outwards. Keep up the good work!

cnlwsu• 14 years ago

When I tried to register I got a blank page with:

An error has occurred: {"code":"ECONNRESET"}

andrewkkirk• 14 years ago

Reminds of Leftronic (https://www.leftronic.com/)

mtrn• 14 years ago

In the similar "single-view" space: http://hojoki.com

sfaruque• 14 years ago

After giving this a quick whirl, I like the concept a lot. However, for me to start paying they need to add a lot more features.

Here are my initial thoughts:

- Ability to select multiple Google calendars, not just the default

- Select more than just 1 Google Analytics account

- Load the Inbox faster (takes about ~2 minutes to load currently...?)

- Remember my layout of the cards

- Some form of notification counter

And finally, how much will this service cost per month after my 30 day trial?

makethetick• 14 years ago

Looks great, I was going to build something very similar to this for a side project. Look forward to trying it out.

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