Your Startup Needs a Dashboard
I have to say, I'm in two minds about this.<p>On one side- yes it's supercool to have a dashboard with maps and metrics and everything like that. And I can see it could be really useful too when something's going wrong.<p>On the other hand, I'd be wary of building anything like this until I had a good number of customers, paying me money for a service. Is the product so complete (I would ask myself) and my users so happy, that we have no more important task than building a dashboard to look at in the office. Don't some simple email alerts cover most of the important bases (server down, site down etc) for now.<p>Your startup needs customers (or failing that, users). Your users don't care if you've got a dashboard, they care that your product does what it says.