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I'm technical. Be my co-founder?

8 pointsmkrecny13 comments

I am a technical founder, looking for another technical founder. I quit my job as a software engineer 6 weeks ago to develop something in the analytics space. Currently I'm located in the Bay Area. I'm a recent college grad (Duke) of 23 years age. This is what I've been working on:

http://www.vimeo.com/16805175

It has generated some interest among investors and potential users.

The stack: node.js redis php apache jQuery heavy client side

I should mention that I (we) have a strong chance of being accepted to the TechStars New York program that commences in Jan 2011 - a strong chance that would be increased dramatically by the presence of a great co-founder. It would mean relocating to NYC for 3 months at no cost to yourself. This should sound like fun to you, and is really an unmissable opportunity. I encourage you to google the program.

Ideally, you are a linux server savvy, smart hacker familiar with most of the stack mentioned above and willing to learn the gaps. I look forward to hearing from you.

mkrecny[at]gmail.com

I applied to TS too! Just added you to gtalk. I'm nicogarcia at gmail. Cheers

Cool - look forward to hearing from you : )

Did your demo show all current functionality?

More functionality is exposed via the dropdown menu that was showed in the demo. Not a whole lot however - extras include: time duration, time unit and a couple of fundamental statistical operations (average, frequency, aggregate for time unit vs cumulative).

I should mention that the HTTP server that receives all the client data (scripted in node.js) has also been built.

If you're open to suggestions, right now I feel that there's a huge market opportunity for a SaaS Splunk killer with more reasonable pricing. Having a great analytics UI is 1/4 of the problem there.

I totally agree - but don't you think there are bigger fish to fry than Splunk, i.e. mixpanel?

Mixpanel is a great tool, and I think their niche is gaining popularity because start ups want an easy way to see their data. Data visualization is very interesting to me. Have you started working on a mobile component?

If you mean gathering data from mobile devices my answer is: Any cloud-based app or any mobile app that has a cloud component can leverage the RESTful API. Also see, http://www.localytics.com/ for a vanilla mobile analytics solution.

If your question is 'is the dashboard mobile device viewable' then: Not really. Most of the javascript that powers the dashboard isn't touch-screen compatible, sadly.

Probably, but with a good pricing model and an easy to use system (maybe a ssl-wrapped caching proxy or an ssl vpn) to send the logs over the wire for processing and storage would attract the attention of the devops world (which is worth about $3.50) Then you could just tell everybody, "it's like splunk, but in the cloud, and affordable". Fame, fortune, and the critical logs of hundreds of new startups would quickly be yours.

Thanks- very compelling feedback!

On that note, you might think about talking to troyd (a HN user) who is working on a similar app at http://cloverapp.com/ ..

I really like the interface, especially the drop-to-combine graphs.

How is data piped to it? Can you point it dynamically at differing data sets?

Similar to solutions like kissmetrics and mixpanel, users send data they want to track via HTTP requests to an input server. They then log into the dashboard for their account and the data from their application is supplied to the dashboard via the typical AJAX model. It's not just a visualization tool that sits on top of whatever you're local data source is. You send data to the cloud and view it in the cloud.

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