Grafana sucks imo. Their UI is bad, it takes time to setup. It's very difficult to maintain it all together. There should be a free alternative. I'm surprised there is literally no free alternative to Datadog.
Got it. Yeah I'm building a monitoring tool for web applications. I guess I should start going to some conferences or something. Still figuring it out.
Makes a lot of sense. So I am thinking of building an AI-powered Datadog alternative. Why now? is because with AI I can rapidly build integrations to Ruby, Python and other languages.
But I'm really low-confidence on this one, because how do I make it reach a lot of people? Is there a need for this? Because I can make it really cheap.
I recommend talking to potential customers. Do they want cheap? Do they want AI? Or do they want a reliable observability platform they don't have to think about because it Just Works. Not rhetorical! I don't know what these customers want, but you should know if you're going to build for them. Go talk to folks and then go make something people want.
Okay, I reached out to a few who are cursing DataDog, but also are not fully committed to buying what I'm building. How do I reach out to more people? I mean, it's like I KNOW there is some way here. Because they are not like "I'm happy with DataDog", but it's also not like "We're ready to abandon it for yours".
I talked to ones paying like $40k/mo and $80k/mo(DHH).
ok wow. I will check them out and start reaching out. Also any industries I should target with the current idea? Company size/position you have in mind?
You’re the founder, you tell me. What is your target customer and addressable market and why? You’ve already mentioned some potential differentiators, but you’ll want to be able to cold call and pitch to the customers you believe you’re best suited to serve.
I can email you if you want to chat more, let me know.
I think this is probably by using a COPY command. Assuming the file is on the same server as Postgres. But from a windows/linux machine, if a user wants to upload the CSV file, I don't see any options in the market.
Ok, but what if we create an analytics dashboard for them. Basically the user will upload a CSV and a dashboard with charts will be created. I too don't know the use case exactly. Just thinking loud here.
Sure, but then you are stepping into the same arena as PowerBI and Tableau if you go that route. Definitely a valid use case, if you are ready to go up against large, well-established players. If you are going there, you'd really need to understand the market and have some solid differentiators -- "You can upload a CSV" won't be one.
even analytics or dashboards are likely still too abstract
you are selling them reduced costs, or ideally more income, based on said analytics. Are they going to be able to make sense of the dashboards to make business decisions? I suspect this is where the gap is
Brick and mortar are more concerned with the day-to-day and prefer to outsource secondary operations they are not experts in. They are generally tech shy, so selling them a analytics solution is difficult
I just found out about this extension that runs your Pg Queries in the background and returns a job id. You can come back later and get results from that job id.
I'm still looking for ways in which this is better than ChatGPT. It says that it's different in the sense that it doesn't shy away from giving you malicious content that might otherwise be useful in harming someone or some system. Let me know how you found it different than the normal GPT.
