Free Dash accounts now have Twitter dashboard widgets

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19 points·scottoreilly··5 comments

they say i am a naysayer so pardon me. but may I know who is your 'paid' audience? and ever wondered why don't people like Yahoo!? widgets! and you have built an entire startup around it. remember iGoogle? it nearly didn't work well either.

Apart from this, I am loving the website (UI/UX), and it's the only reason I am sticking around, and perhaps get addicted to it. :)

The model is a lot like GitHub, actually. We let people create all of the public dashboards they want for free so that people can share live data with the community. They also get one free private dashboard.

Business accounts pay the bills, though. https://www.thedash.com/business/pricing

Yep I am pondering over it and making a dashboard right now, and can't believe myself for doing so, despite I have despised widgets. This is so nicely crafted and appealing to nerds.

phew! it's here finally. https://www.thedash.com/dashboard/TTmZcUR0cO

But other similar products like geckoboard etc seem to be doing well.

Agreed on the UI - it is simple and beautiful

The thing that held me back at my last job with Geckoboard was the completely outrageous price. For half of what we wanted it to serve, it required custom coding. But for our team it would've been ~$300 a month, which was just absolutely nuts. Nearly $4k a year for anything that's going to take time from engineering anyhow is pretty hard to justify to me.

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