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Project metrics dashboard
Build a simple dashboard that shows the important numbers for each project at a glance.
High-level concept
I want a small dashboard that makes the health of each project visible without digging through separate tools. The point is not to build a full analytics platform. The point is to show a few useful numbers, simple trends, and a quick answer to “how is this project doing?”
The dashboard should pull together the metrics that already exist across the places I publish work:
- GitHub impressions, views, and related repo signals
- download counts
- search impressions and clicks from Google, Bing, and similar sources
- any other light-weight trend that helps explain whether a project is getting attention
The dashboard only helps if the numbers are meaningful, so Defining success matters here. Discoverability and visibility are part of how projects gain traction, which is the same concern behind Content and products.
Detailed steps
- Decide which 3 to 5 metrics matter for each project.
- Identify the data sources and APIs I can pull from without too much setup.
- Build one overview view that shows the latest value and a short trend for each metric.
- Add simple charts that make it easy to spot direction, not just raw totals.
- Make it easy to switch between projects and compare them side by side.
- Keep the first version boring and reliable, then expand only if I actually use it.