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Is there any app like this already out for desktop Macs? I have an old iMac that I would love to repurpose for a status board.

I was considering throwing together a one-off webpage with a bunch of favorite sites in frames that refresh, but that wouldn't be nearly as nice to look at as an app like this with prebuilt widgets that are designed to be laid out in a fullscreen grid.

I wanted to just use Dashboard, but it is really slow (widgets seem to freeze for minutes at a time, and Web Clips randomly fail to work for no apparent reason).

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I dont see the point of this app. Dashboards with far better API integrations:

http://ducksboard.com/

http://www.geckoboard.com/

http://www.telemetryapp.com/

http://shopify.github.io/dashing/

When I say I don't see the point, why would you limit the dashboard to an app? web browser based delivery is far better suited to this concept - The ability to display the boards on any size screen or hardware.

Some people are old fashioned and don't like sharing confidential business data with third party services. Other than that - sure, no point whatsoever.

It's not hard to run an internal web server for a small office. No sharing necessary.

You run dashing yourself.

Dashing[1] from Shopify is pretty cool. Check out the demo[2] too.

1: http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ 2: http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample

Thanks

A real-word example from a project of mine: http://dash.furidamu.org:3030/dash (which hasn't really started yet, but the dash is up)

http://www.telemetryapp.com

That does look pretty and awesome for business data, but do you know of anything similar that is more plugged into personal and social data sources like the OP? I wouldn't be so eager to e.g. recode a weather API that pushes specifically to Telemetry's service when there are already zillions of weather widgets and APIs out there.

Telemetry is just in the process of getting going. The capabilities you talk about are coming within the next couple weeks to Telemetry (I'm one of the two lone programmers behind Telemetry). Right now the app is uber geeky but we've made a killer real time HTML5 and native visualization engine with real time push. We're working on making things less geeky as we go but we currently have a native OSX app. Our iPad/iPhone app is coming in a couple weeks.

I like it a lot. I suspect you'll need to come up with a self-install version to get into larger accounts like ours, but it's very nice.

Thank you. We're considering a self installed version but it'd be a large enterprise type install and further in the future.

I can't see any pricing - I'd like to use you guys for a project, but I don't want to invest time writing a bunch of custom software to send our metrics to you, if you're going to disappear in 12 months... What's the roadmap re pricing and sticking around?

You can see pricing here once you login: https://admin.telemetryapp.com/account/plan

We're going to put pricing on the public site too. We plan to stick around of course, the major advantage for us is that this project has almost no burn rate and is a critical component already of another one of our projects. So it's not going anywhere.

Oops, forgot to include the link to our OSX desktop app as per the parents request, you can get it at: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/telemetry/id571033468?mt=12

So the dashboard on the landing page is the real thing? Very cool, though no tiles except for Time seem to be updating.

Yep, I need to make that demo board more dynamic. The technology is such that we can easily update once per second, perhaps even more frequently with some animation changes. Server sent events makes things easy.

I worked on a project that does this.

http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/

It's pretty simple to set up and write the widgets.

I want something which lives "inside the firewall" vs SAAS, too, since a lot of the metrics I want to track are on servers which I wouldn't want to have touch the Internet bareback.

I agree with this. Have VPN, will travel.

checkout infocaptor, it can be hosted within your intranet/firewall

Give https://www.leftronic.com a try.

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