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Geckoboard
Office wall dashboards, in an era of empty offices and free charts.
KINDA
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
Looker Studio and Grafana cover the headline feature free, so the $44/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- TV dashboards are easy to generate now. OpenAI, May 13, 2024 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 2 of 2 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Looker Studio and Grafana.
- What the call is worth $528/yr
- $44/mo at the entry paid tier — $528 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- May 13, 2024
- List price
- $44/mo
- Per year
- $528
The backstory
Geckoboard puts live KPI dashboards on office screens. Two trends hurt: distributed work reduced the number of walls, and generating a live dashboard became something a developer does in an afternoon with an AI assistant. It survives with support and ops teams who genuinely watch a wallboard.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $528/yr L
Looker Studio Free dashboards.
lookerstudio.google.com open_in_new G
Grafana Free and self-hosted.
grafana.com open_in_new2 of 2 replacements have a usable free tier.