AutoFocus Dashboards

E-commerce Platforms
πŸ”₯
8/10
Demand Score
Leaders and reps waste time on irrelevant charts, missing the few metrics that actually move pipeline and forecasts.
🌊
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
πŸ’°
$799-4k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
⏱️
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate

The Problem

B2B functionality locked behind expensive Shopify Plus plans:

Competitor Landscape

  • Salesforce CRM Analytics/Tableau CRM
  • Looker
  • ThoughtSpot
  • HubSpot Dashboards
  • Mode/Metabase

Must-Have Features for MVP

βœ“ OKR/goal ingestion and role profiling
βœ“ Governed metric catalog with lineage
βœ“ Auto-composed, moment-aware dashboards
βœ“ Behavioral telemetry and action attribution
βœ“ A/B/MAB layout optimization
βœ“ Slack/Email digests and nudges
βœ“ Drill-through to source with RLS
βœ“ Explainability for metric definitions
βœ“ Template library for board/weekly views
βœ“ One-click β€˜make this my default’ adoption flow

⚠️ Potential Challenges

  • Metric definition alignment and governance
  • Complex role/permission mapping
  • Skepticism toward auto-generated content
  • Data source heterogeneity and joins

Risk Level: Low

🎯 Keys to Success

  • Increase in actions per dashboard view
  • Weekly active dashboard users up >30%
  • Time-to-answer drop for common questions
  • Forecast accuracy improvement vs baseline
  • Reduction in custom one-off report requests

Ready to Build This?

This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.