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I like the idea of being able to create a dashboard from selected Google Analytics metrics (I don't use Basecamp or any of the other datasources), and I also dig the design of the dashboard.

However, I don't see myself using this on a daily basis, but rather for creating a customized dashboard for a presentation (although it'd be nice to change the colors). As well, it'd be nice if you created new metrics that Google Analytics doesn't already provide.

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Just curious, what would prevent you from using this on a daily basis? And what other new metrics would you like to see?

I only use Google Analytics out of all the datasources that you integrate with. I believe the value your product brings to the table is the aggregation of all those datasources. Hence, I wouldn't get much value out of it, as Google Analytics allows me to customize my dashboard, and provides more metrics.

Regarding my second point, I don't have any specific suggestions, but it was more related to my first point. If I don't use the datasource aggregation feature, then there currently is no added value for me to use your product on a daily basis. Some ideas would be to create more visual mashups of data, such as illustrating how a user got to your website, what they did, and for how long.

So to conclude, I wouldn't use it on a daily basis with my use case, however, you are probably going after a different market segment, is that right?

Yes, there would be more value for you if there was more than one data source that you were interested in - either a third-party source, or custom data you push using our API. =)

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