Anything that can send JSON, fire a webhook, or fill a spreadsheet — which is to say, anything. There is no catalog because there is no wall.
Statboy vs. Geckoboard
Simple, as long as you stay in the catalog.
Geckoboard made dashboards simple by building a connector for everything popular. We made them simple by not needing connectors at all. This page is biased. Onward.
A lovely catalog of integrations. If your data isn't in it, you graduate to their Datasets API — where you define a schema. For the simple tool.
The tale of the tape.
Refereed by one of the boxers.
Category
Statboy
Geckoboard
Getting data in
Any JSON, webhook, or spreadsheet
Pick from the catalog, or it's DIY time
Custom data
Send it. The schema is inferred.
Declare fields and types in a dataset schema, then push data that matches it
Building the dashboard
Already built when the first event lands
Add widgets one at a time, per widget, per dashboard
Changing a chart
Say it in chat. “Undo” also works.
Open the widget editor. Again.
Natural habitat
A link, wherever your team already is
A TV on an office wall, glowing proudly at an empty room since March 2020
Historical data
Drag in the spreadsheet. Done.
Backfill through the Datasets API, batch by batch
Pricing
Fits on a sticky note. Free tier forever.
Priced per dashboard — simplicity, metered
Characterizations are ours and enthusiastically one-sided. Geckoboard is a trademark of its owners, who make a genuinely tidy product and deserve a fairer page than this one.
To be fair — briefly.
Geckoboard is genuinely good at what it set out to do. Go there happily if:
- All your metrics live in tools their catalog covers — Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce and friends
- You want a big, legible wallboard for a support or sales floor
- Nobody on the team will ever need a metric the catalog doesn't have
If your numbers come from your own product, your own scripts, or a spreadsheet with seventeen tabs — that catalog can't see you. We can.
No catalog. No schema. One URL.
The thing you'd use Geckoboard's Datasets API for — custom numbers, your way — is our entire front door. Point anything at your Statboy URL and the dashboard shows up already assembled.
Export your old dashboards' data to CSV, drop it in, and keep your history.
The whole integration
curl -X POST https://statboy.ai/v1/events \
-d '{"type":"MRR","amount":48210}'
# no dataset definition. no field types.
# no widget editor. it's just charted.Bring the data the catalog forgot.
If it can make JSON, it can have a dashboard. Forty seconds from now.
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