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I just posted this comment at the blog, but I'm not sure if it's going to be approved. Dashboards is a subject that I'm very interested in because my company provides a related product. This was my comment:

> I found that if the dashboards are not prevalent, people often forget to look at them... well, I do, even the ones I care about. I check them out every day and one day I forget and I lose the habit and puff, it's gone from my day to day work. > > That's why I created a solution, Screensaver Ninja, a screensaver that displays web pages, such as Google Analytics, KISSmetrics, Geckoboard, or even custom built dashboards, so that whenever any computer at your office is not being used, it turns into an information dissemination machine of the data you care about. You can learn more about it here: https://Screensaver.Ninja

Never miss important information again: display it as your screensaver with Screensaver Ninja.

I used to set up dashboard screens when I was working at Google and since I left I wanted a nice and easy way to leverage the screens at the office as dashboards for everybody to see or a way to securely display web pages such as our Google Analytics, Kanban board, Twitter feeds, etc in a big screen. Both problems were beautifully solved by the same solution, a screensaver that displays web sites and thus Screensaver Ninja was born.

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This just popped up in my feed and it piqued my curiosity as my startup is working on a screensaver to display web sites and this is a neat visualization. The product is called Screensaver Ninja.

Hey JediBurrell. Thanks for challenging our requested funding and being part of the conversation. We decided to take this message and add some details in a blog post about the challenges we faced and face. You may find it interesting:

https://screensaver.ninja/2015/12/04/a-square-peg-in-a-round-hole/

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Thank you for the feedback. I put a lot of effort into making the video and I was feeling very insecure about it. I end up turning my living room into a small shooting studio: https://twitter.com/ScrnsvrNinja/status/669182024310239232

I changed my copy quite a bit, including adding a lot from our origin story. It overlaps with the video, which I read was not a good idea, but I'm trusting you more than that other source.

The problem with screenshots of this product as that there's nothing to see. It's just like a full screen browser, all I'm showing you is someone else's website. I'll add a screenshot of the configuration tool later, but that's not a very sexy screen.

Every computer out there has a screensaver. You only need to activate it.

You don't sit there looking at your screensaver, you come from the bathroom break and when you sit down at your desk, you get a glimpse of some stats. Or someone else at your office walks by your desk, and they get a glimpse at some chart, stats, activity.

This is a way to avoid having a dedicated computer with a big expensive dedicated screen displaying these stats. Normally in offices only a few people have visibility of that screen, by having every computer at the office be a dashboard every now and then, visibility of important and sometimes actionable information increases.

Furthermore, since screensavers lock the computer, it's a great way to run that permanent screen if you want to have that. Most offices I visit, they have a maximized browser and every now and then someone has to nudge it because it's not very good at self refreshing and any visitor can pick up that keyboard and mouse next the potted plant and have full control of a computer in the office in the internal network.

If you think nobody has dashboards, just Google it or take a look at this: https://screensaver.ninja/2015/05/29/do-like-the-big-guys-but-better/

I used to install these types of dashboards at Google, the security was complex and we had to constantly maintain them because we didn't have something like Screensaver Ninja.

To quote FlightStats, a recent customer of ours and a company that cares about stats: "We struggled to find an easy and robust tool for displaying a series of dashboards elegantly and simply. Screensaver Ninja was easy to use and got the job done well. "

It's not random unused computers, it's everybody's computers. People don't sit at their desk all the time. People come and go very frequently and when you are not using their computer, it turns into a dashboard for the people on the next desk or behind and for when that person comes back to have a glimpse at the information.

I haven't talked to office managers because they are not the ones needing data to display, normally devs, devops, CTOs are the ones with data to display. We have two case studies and more come soon. One is FlightStats, a company that is super data centric, and the other one is MSTY, a company that needed to scale their service up and down really quickly because their usage was very spiky. Both have a mix of permanent screens and workstations running Screensaver Ninja:

https://screensaver.ninja/2015/12/07/flightstats-dashboard-case-study/

https://screensaver.ninja/2015/11/01/case-study-msty-helping-music-reach-your-ears-one-dashboard-at-a-time/

Not exactly what you are asking for, but displaying some monitoring software or your own web site as your screensaver can give you peace of mind that everything is fine. For that we created Screensaver Ninja.

About your particular question, we use pingdom and new relic (and display new relic as our screensavers).

Do you think these are different enough?

My homepage: https://screensaver.ninja/

Knowledge base article about Travis-CI: https://screensaver.ninja/knowledge-base/travis-ci/

Landing page for Travis-CI users: https://screensaver.ninja/travis-ci-office-dashboard-screensaver

Hello Lillano,

I would be interested in your approach to this product that we are developing. I talked with more than a hundred people already and after explaining the product, many want it, but I haven't figured out a way for people to find me, as nobody ever searches for this solution: Screensaver Ninja.

Currently we are running small amounts of ads on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and Adwords.

Name: Screensaver Ninja https://screensaver.ninja

Pitch: display websites as your screensaver so that you don't miss important information, like Google Analytics, Geckoboard, New Relic, Twitter Mentions, etc, etc.

More details: we are in market validation mode as well as developing it.

Looking for: people that are interested in being in the private beta, which we'll launch quite soon for Mac OS X and a little later for Windows.

Discount: we don't have anything in place yet as distribution has not been defined.