Geckoboard, a London startup selling real-time business dashboards, publishes posts on data mistakes, visualization and startup lessons.
Commenters like Geckoboard's dashboard design and AWS integration, and its job ads appear in HN hiring threads. The blog is linked for data posts.
London, UK | Geckoboard https://www.geckoboard.com | Full time | ON SITE (but some working from home is not a problem)
Geckoboard is a successful, growing 30-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant real-time dashboards solve a tricky, important problem for thousands of paying subscribers, by taking the complexity out of connecting to their data and making that information simple for everyone to interpret at a glance. As a result, our customers unlock data they didn't know they had, connect people and join up projects, and make better decisions faster.
We are looking for a front-end developer who is excited about tail-call optimisation in ES6, uses TDD consistently or wants to learn to do so, and builds super-usable single-page applications. Any React knowledge is a plus but we are happy for you to learn with us.
Please see our jobs page for details: https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/
We’re constantly striving to ensure that we offer the most encouraging, supportive and efficient environment possible. We want everyone on the team to participate in making our architectural decisions. The whole team is involved in prioritising and evaluating our work and we regularly program in pairs to share knowledge, promote collaboration, and improve code quality.
We don't just pay lip service to work-life balance, we actively and strongly encourage it. Flexible working hours and the ability to regularly work from home let you work in a way that fits you and your…
London, United Kingdom - Geckoboard - https://www.geckoboard.com - ON SITE (but some working from home is no problem)
Geckoboard is a successful, growing 25-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant real-time dashboards solve a tricky and important problem for thousands of paying subscribers, by taking the complexity out of connecting to data and making that information simple for everyone to interpret at a glance. As a result, our customers unlock data they didn't know they had, connect people and join up projects, and make better decisions faster.
We are looking for a front-end developer who uses TDD consistently or wants to learn to do so and builds super usable single-page applications. Any React knowledge is a plus but we are happy for you to learn with us. Please see our jobs page for details: https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/
We’re constantly striving to ensure that we offer the most encouraging, supportive and efficient environment possible. We want everyone on the team to participate in making architectural decisions. The whole team is involved in prioritising and evaluating work, and we regularly program in pairs to share knowledge, promote collaboration, and improve code quality.
We don't just pay lip service to work-life balance, we actively and strongly encourage it. Flexible working hours and the ability to regularly work from home let you work in a way that fits you and your family, and we have generous paternity and maternity leave…
Geckoboard | London, UK | Software Engineers | Full-time | VISA | Onsite
At Geckoboard, we're helping companies all around the world make use of their data by enabling them to easily build TV dashboards that align their teams on the things that matter most. Our product integrates with almost 100 applications and our customer include the likes of Slack, Dashlane, and Skyscanner.
We've been busy reimagining the way our customers get their data in Geckoboard and have a lot of interesting and creative work to do to shape their experiences. Right now, we're looking for curious problem solvers to help us on this journey.
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Openings:
Backend Go Developer | https://jobs.lever.co/geckoboard/27c7e6ff-a02a-4221-a02f-e1921dc8c804?lever-origin=applied&lever-source%5B%5D=Hacker%20News
Senior Front-End Developer | https://jobs.lever.co/geckoboard/c857d2a3-d784-4d7e-a72e-486b829e6dba?lever-origin=applied&lever-source%5B%5D=Hacker%20News
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Looking for a junior front-end developer role? (full-time)
Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/geckoboard/e253479c-6f23-4c03-97e8-998880a6621f?lever-origin=applied&lever-source%5B%5D=Hacker%20News
Note: Our junior positions are only open to people based in London with right to work in the UK.
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A little about Geckoboard: We're a small but growing 40 person start up in Shoreditch passionate about making data useful! We have a strong culture with a focus on building a great product our customers love, work life balance and personal…
The design is absolutely incredible. I started using TicTrac [1] a little while ago, but it's not great. I hate that I have to set up and arrange everything myself. I really want to just wire up my accounts, and let a professional designer show me the information in a beautiful way. Other dashboards like Geckoboard [2] and TicTrac only let you dump a bunch of boxes on a page. The sports page on AprilZero is an amazing example of a cohesive design, where everything is laid out in a far more useful way.
For the last month, I've been tracking what I eat with MyFitnessPal, and have been tracking my weight every morning with a Withings wifi scale. It's extremely powerful when the data is collected effortlessly, and for the first time in my life, I'm on track to really change some unhealthy habits. Entering food in MFP is still a PITA, but I've managed to keep it up so far.
It's been one of my dream projects to design a personal dashboard like this, especially in the style of the Iron Man movies. This website has exceeded everything I imagined. I hope it becomes open source one day, and that I can contribute a ton of new integrations and sections.
Or if not, please let me pay to use this service!
[1]: https://tictrac.com
[2]: https://www.geckoboard.com
Getting a good dashboard is really a hard task. It varies from business to business. The important thing is to identify some metrics and KPIs you want to be aware of.
Initially, it would show very few metrics or charts that can give you a quick snapshot of the business so you can see how it's performing very quickly.
But it should be possible to dig into more data and visualize it in many different ways to get better insights.
On most apps I've worked, we've always opted to build out own dashboard because there was no out-of-the-box solution.
We would gather data from inside the app and also use some external services like mixpanel or google analytics.
Also, lately I've been moving towards more custom charts and graphs made with d3.js which is extremely powerful.
Nowadays there are a couple of products that let you craft your own dashboard like https://www.leftronic.com/ and http://www.geckoboard.com/
You can get some ideas there and by looking similar products.
MixPanel and KissMetrics also provide some inspiration.
And doing a search on dribbble can give you some ideas also: http://dribbble.com/search?q=dashboard
A really good book on data visualization is "Designing with Data" by Brian Suda: http://www.designingwithdata.com/
Geckoboard | Ruby Back-End Developer | ONSITE | London UK
We’re looking for a full-time Ruby Developer to work on our back-end microservices. Geckoboard's view layer is handled by client-side JavaScript, so all our Ruby apps are APIs. Our microservice architecture has evolved over the years and we're looking for a pragmatic Rubyist who will apply best practices to the system as a whole.
Thousands of businesses use Geckoboard to build TV Dashboards that help drive growth and focus teams, by taking the complexity out of connecting their data and understanding it at a glance.
The role involves both greenfield work to develop new features, as well as the ability to rethink and re-architect our existing systems. As our understanding of micro-services has changed over time, we've discovered patterns and practices for building scalable and resilient services, so even if you've not worked with micro-services before, you'll be able to hit the ground running.
Oh, and did I mention that we have a 5* and 100% approval rate on Glassdoor?
Get in touch direct (thaisa@geckoboard.com) or apply here: https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/#op-201233-ruby-backend-developer