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Yes! You can track public hashtags, URLs, and even handles using the "social listening" block on the Twitter integrations.

Check out this template which has an example – https://livedocs.com/templates/4cc353b1-f771-4e07-ae68-2f3d8...

Checking it out now!

Ahh, these are interesting! None seem to have an API though :(

True! That's a great idea! We tried with Airtable for a proof of concept, but Airtable is not issuing metadata API tokens anymore..should try with Office 365

This looks interesting! Thanks for sharing!

Yes! I could probably do this with Jupyter Notebooks, but Livedocs is built for, say, a growth or sales role who want to track a simple metric from Twitter or Stripe, and might not have the time to learn Jupyter and it’s nuances.

Notebook styled tools were the inspiration for Livedocs, for sure.

We’re already working on this! It’s our goal to reduce the barrier to entry to using Livedocs by taking the docs to where your work already happens :)

Hi! I’m trying to nail the UX of excel. We already support Google sheets, but excel IIRC is a file-based format? Do you imagine re-uploading the latest version of the spreadsheet in order to update the document?

Re: CRMs, we currently work with smaller teams who use CRMs like Hubspot (we have a Hubspot integration), but salesforce could be interesting too.

Zapier I believe doesn’t give you data in a structured format, rather a series of “events” as and when they happen. This is workable, Ofcourse, and I will look into it today.

Thanks for the feedback!

We did consider that, and have something in the works although it’s not top priority right now. I’m curious what would the distinction be? What would differentiate it from a document with only graphs etc and no text?

Cool! That's my favorite part of this format of "live" documents — based on what integrations exist, the output might be an entirely different tool. What tools do you use for time and expense tracking?

Coda is a slick tool for building interactive documents!

We're focused on allowing non-technical folks to track metrics and data from third party tools (although we do also support pulling live data on tickets/PRs from Github too, as that is something that most operators, particularly founders at early stage co's are interested in tracking to see dev team activity, open bugs, etc)

Super cool! There are some tricky challenges to solve under the hood to make one-click data entry work, for sure! Curious to learn what prompted you to build this..

Thanks! We're trying to find the sweet spot between flexibility and ease of use, by adding features where you could dive deeper into metrics if you are an advanced user.

BTW, you can also setup Livedocs documents to automatically send to a slack channel and/or by email daily.

Thanks! Yes! We realized that early teams don't even have a data stack — they just rely on dashboards built into the tools they already use. The problem is, there's a dashboard on every tool, which means these teams have to hop between multiple tabs/dashboards to get a complete picture. We've built a way to view these metrics in a single place.

Segment doesn't have a built in visualizing layer, and relies on destinations to handle that (like Mixpanel, etc)— but even there, non-technical operators are lost because they have no mental model of how to transform a stream of events into something like, say, "Activation rate" or "Retention curve". We connect to Segment and have pre-written the SQL required to generate these commonly used metrics.

Agree! The horrors of updating documents at a previous role is what led me to build Livedocs!

We're trying to work with Google Docs currently. We're aware of the huge switching cost that comes with adopting a new editor, and we're trying to integrate with Drive/Gdocs. Will keep you in the loop!

Thanks! Feel free to reach out to me a(at)livedocs.com if you're looking for an integration that would be useful to you. Happy to hack something together for you :)

Appreciate it! I'm a huge fan of ReadMe!

Thanks! We're trying to build a more complete data solution. The pre-built block types are the first step, which let you setup basic metrics. We want to build connectors with custom APIs, databases, and even data warehouses, and then let teams invite data engineers to setup metrics for non-technical users in their team to use.

We're looking to add support for connecting with APIs and databases (and passing SQL queries to those DBs) visually so larger teams can invite their data engineers to write queries for them.

Thank you!

Clickable links —

- https://livedocs.com

- https://livedocs.com/templates

Literally one minute later, wow! Love it! Congrats on the launch!

I've seen examples of it be done, but think it's a patch that masks a more serious problem with the hiring process. In early stage startups, you should only hire people who are qualified and excited to do the job. At later stage or well-funded companies, the salary and compensation should make it worth working on niche things that are usually hard to be excited about.

Almost every company went fully remote. I guess you want a list of companies that will stay remote, and specifically stay remote for your role.

I would reverse engineer the approach to finding the most suitable openings for your role and filter out the ones that are not remote.

There are sites like remoteok.io which were always listing "remote ok" roles, even before the pandemic.

This is so cool! Don't know what the best way to contact you is, but I shared some thoughts at the email in the footer.

Seems like it places great trust in the structural integrity of the packaging/box. BD claims it can "grab and move" boxes up to 23 kgs.

I've done some work in Mech Engg. designing grippers for smaller objects, and gripping objects is often the hardest part. From an operations research perspective, a human will figure out the best way to carry a box that is almost falling apart almost intuitively.

I can see this being extremely useful in, say, a large warehouse where it is isolated to finding and moving boxes to loading bays, particularly through an API.

Amazon is already doing this, and this video is highly relevant here — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sEVX4mPuto

This is great! Another neat project that comes to mind is https://modfy.video

How has being way too empathetic affected your life?

/aside: does "how full my gym is right now" work with an API?

Best thing since sliced bread!