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Geckoboard
Company blog · geckoboard.com/blog · on HN as pmjoycedatabusiness
Geckoboard is the company blog at geckoboard.com, writing about data and business. Since 2010, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 136 times, most often “Geckoboard out of beta, new widgets”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Geckoboard's learn pages on data literacy, such as the Cobra Effect and McNamara fallacy. Most other comments are job posts or mentions of its TV dashboard product.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Geckoboard turns live data from HubSpot, Zendesk, Salesforce and 90+ tools into real-time KPI dashboards your whole team can see on TVs, Slack, Microsoft Teams, email and mobile. Free 14-day trial.
Most-linked posts?
- Geckoboard out of beta, new widgets18 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2011-02-03
- /careers/5 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2015-06-12
- /5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2011-01-18
- Data dashboards for businesses – Geckoboard4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-07-09
- TechTakeovers: Charting Mergers and Acquisitions by the Big Five in Tech3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-27
- Common Data Mistakes to Avoid3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-23
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-07-19
- Geckoboard - Your Business in Realtime2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-10
- Data Fallacies to Avoid [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-01
What Hacker News says?
Geckoboard | Back-end/Front-End Developers | London, UK | VISA, ON SITE (but some WFH is not a problem) 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. Some of our customers include Airbnb, Slack, Netflix and Skyscanner. We have a lot of interesting, creative work ahead and ar…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Introducing the Geckoboard Widget Editor as a story · 12 points
HN discussionGeckoboard | 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 G…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted When startups don't work out. (Part 3/5) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionLondon, United Kingdom - Geckoboard - http://geckoboard.com - ONSITE (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 valuable, difficult problem for thousands of paying subscribers, by taking the complexity out of connecting to their data and making that data simple for anyone to interpret at a g…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted All mergers and acquisitions made by the Big Five technology companies [Data viz] as a story · 10 points
HN discussionGeckoboard| Ruby Developer| ONSITE | https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/#op-155708-ruby-backend-d... Looking for candidate who is excited to work with Front-End team on developing new features as well as re-think and re-architect our existing system. Link has more info or email me direct thaisa@geckoboard.com Role based in London, UK (near Liverpool St. Station)
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Indicate your build status with programmable light bulbs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGeckoboard | Engineering | On-site | London, UK | Full Time Geckoboard is used by thousands of businesses 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. We’re doing some incredibly interesting work to make that even easier for them and are looking for curious problem solvers to help us: QA Tester - https://www.gec…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Which is the better data analyst? Benchmarking ChatGPT vs. Claude as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGeckoboard | Golang, SRE, QA roles | ONSITE | London, UK | Full Time with flexible working Geckoboard is used by thousands of businesses 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. We're doing some incredibly interesting work to make that even easier for them and are looking for curious problem solvers to help…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Data-driven culture within startups [pdf] as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGeckoboard | Back-end/Front-End Developers, VP Engineering, Product Designer | London, UK | ONSITE (but some WFH is not a problem) 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. Some of our customers include Airbnb, Slack, Netflix and Skyscanner. We have a lot of interesting,…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Are SaaS companies really data-driven? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGeckoboard | Ruby Back-End Developer | ONSITE | London UK We have a lot of interesting, creative work ahead and are looking for curious problem solvers who can make our customers’ lives easier. You'll be joining a friendly team with great people in an environment with empowered developers, flexible working conditions, and a focus on skill development. Thousands of businesses use Geckoboard to build TV Dashboards tha…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Geckoboard - Your Business in Realtime as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI really rate this book so it’s great to see it getting some publicity! I think one misnomer is that to do stats right you just need to do the math right. But what analysis is done in the first place, the overall methodology and how that data is interpreted are more often where we go wrong. At Geckoboard we’ve been trying to raise awareness of some of these issues. Heres a poster we put together: https://www.geckobo…
Comment linking /learn/data-literacy/statistical-fallacies/
on “Statistics Done Wrong”Submitted Data Visualization Tips as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGeckoboard | 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 ou…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted How to design and build a great dashboard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLondon, UK | Geckoboard | Front End Developer Geckoboard is a successful and growing 30-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant, real-time dashboards solve a difficult but valuable problem for thousands of paying subscribers. We are looking for a full-time front-end engineer with experience building single page applications. You'll be passionate about working as part of a team, and learning from ot…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted Data Fallacies to Avoid [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGeckoboard | Golang, QA roles | ONSITE | London, UK | Full Time with flexible working Geckoboard is used by thousands of businesses 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. We're doing some incredibly interesting work to make that even easier for them and are looking for curious problem solvers to help us! W…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Top 100 Tech IPOs of the last 10 years [Dataviz] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLondon, United Kingdom - Geckoboard - https://www.geckoboard.com - ON SITE (but some working from home is not a problem) Geckoboard is a successful, growing 25-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 i…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted Introducing Geckoboard for iPhone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLondon, United Kingdom - Geckoboard - http://geckoboard.com - ONSITE (but some working from home? no problem) Geckoboard is a successful, growing 25-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant, real-time dashboards solve an important, difficult problem for thousands of paying subscribers, by taking the complexity out of connecting to their data and making that data simple for everyone to interpret at a…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted When startup don't work out. pt 2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese are tools (not just SaaS services) I've used in the past as part of a team or on my own projects. ------------- Collaboration ------------- 1. Yammer ( https://www.yammer.com/ ) 2. Basecamp ( http://basecamp.com ) 3. Limechat for IRC client ( http://limechat.net/mac/ ) 4. Flowdock ( http://flowdock.com ) 5. Asana ( http://asana.com ) 6. Trello ( http://trello.com ) ---------- Deployment ---------- 1. Chef ( ht…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted 100 Startup Founders: Jonny Grubin as a story · 3 points
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