Comment by CuriousPerson23 | Hacker News Reader

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CuriousPerson23

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?

Thanks and appreciate the questions!

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.

Would love to understand this more. pklee.hackernews@gmail.com

Sorry I had meant this for @curiousperson23. Thanks

Great - will reach out!

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