from Hacker News

A friend and I from school have been working a side project for a while, mainly because we needed it. We also have approached different startups and they have agreed on the problem and the solution we offer. We are building an online analytical platform focus on growth metrics (KPI's). Most of our "competitors" (like Chartio) have build a data visualization platform targeted almost exclusively at the business user. Everything about this product has been engineered to make the task of visualizing data easy. But there's nothing on the web(except for blogs, and essays) that actually guides you on the task of knowing what metrics should you focusing on (depending on your industry) or a platform that can track::calculate your growth rate ( based on weekly/monthly performance) and what impact could that have on your yearly projections and future valuation. We had this concern last year with small software that we sold, because we wanted to know “what” metrics I should be tracking and consolidating?. Why are those specific metrics important and how can I track them? all within one platform. (no excels, or essays, etc.)

:Just wanted to see if this was an actual problem worth solving, or if it was nothing more than a personal need.

Thanks guys- Sorry for the long post.