We're actually working on a product to help with this. More generally, we're focused on the massive impact meetings have on our day/team and how we can get the most from them. One of our main benefits to start is that we automatically send a simple prompt to meeting attendees after a recurring meetings to rate the meeting, and then give you a view of that rating over time. You can log in and view the most time consuming meetings for the team and how their ratings are changing over time. This way, if a recurring meeting started as useful but is no longer serving it's purpose, it becomes easy to detect and eliminate. If anyone would be interested in joining our beta program, we're offering the tool completely free in exchange for feedback. Let me know!
Hi Explo team. Congrats on the launch! My previous company and my new company both provide insights as a service, so customer facing dashboards are the core product, and therefore this is very interesting to me. A few questions for the team:
1. I see that startups pay $500/month. How do you compare that to Metabase which is $85/month (or $385 if you remove the Metabase attribution)?
2. Do you, or do you plan to, offer the ability to embed individual charts instead of whole dashboards?
3. Do you support custom chart creation via python/R?
4. Do you think Explo is a fit for our use case or a different tool: we're experts at SQL, good with Python, and looking to rapidly create and embed customer facing charts?
1. We have a few customers who have switched over from Metabase for a few different reasons. The main ones are that we offer much more extensive UI components, more chart capabilities, better security guarantees, and highly customizable styles. While $500 is more than Metabase's price point, we believe that an embedded first solution is worth the price since it will save you 10-20x the cost per month on development and maintenance costs.
2. Yes! A dashboard is just a collection of one or more charts/UI elements and so if you make a "dashboard" which is just a single chart, you can easily embed that. We have many customers who have this use case to embed analytics granularly throughout their app.
3. Not currently, though I'd love to understand more about how/why you would want that. We've heard this a few times as a "nice to have" but would love to build it out with a customer that really needs it.
4. It sounds like you'd be a great customer for Explo! It takes all of the hard work of building out user interfaces out of the equation and makes it so that you just need to specify data queries with SQL and then use our drag and drop interface for UI building.
A lot of the giant companies are really concerned about anti-trust. Microsoft is under pressure too, but there would be an uproar if Google or Apple bought given their pressure around the app store. Having access to the code that writes the apps would be tough to pull off...
Hey! thanks so much! Here's how we think about StartPack in terms of existing options out there today:
- We actually only support LLCs. Certain options out there actually don't support LLCs for non-US residents.
- We're different than "one-time formation offerings" because we fundamentally believe 1) the incentives are not aligned for one-time offerings. We've heard directly from the creators and online SMBs who choose use that they don't want a checklist of things to do after forming a company, they want someone (StartPack :) ) who can handle the ongoing work for them 2) we handle all the annoying administrative work creators and online SMBs don't want to deal with + we help them set up and manage software/accounts they need as well to launch, maintain and grow their business.
At the end of the day, our goal is to help entrepreneurs not have to deal with anything else other than focusing on what they do best: growing their business
Hasn't there been only 1 fatal accident? If not, I can't imagine there have been >5, so seems unfair and misleading to make bold claims like that. I think the courts will rule, and if the system misunderstood something, the manufacturer will be at fault.
