Atlassian Acquires Chartio

  • Chartio is going away on March 1, 2022

    Sigh. It feels like the entire internet is owned by less than 10 companies. I hate to live in such a monopolistic world

  • The announcement from Chartio's side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26275870

  • Chartio manages to make dashboards easy by removing all the proprietary layers and extra UI steps to get to the point.

    I am not talking about easy as point and click (although I know they are selling that too).

    Easy for me was to allowing me to focus 99% of my attention on writing the SQL query.

    Superset has a similar philosophy but is in need of a UX overhaul. It also lacks some seemingly small but very important features that Chartio has. Mainly because in superset the operations are done in python on the already retrieved result.

  • Pretty annoying as I’d just got all my dashboards set up and now they cancel my trial, gah!

  • Atlassian has a wide market share because their pricing is relatively cheap and most of the paid competitors suck.

    It’s not innovative to buy an innovative company/product, if all you’re going to do with it is reinforce your own mediocre products.