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Luke Zapart

Canvas - Understand your startup using powerful analytics

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Connect all your product, sales, marketing, and finance data to understand your startup. Design beautiful dashboards. Slice and dice using powerful spreadsheets. Use one of 50+ templates to manage your runway, delight your customers, and grow confidently.

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Luke Zapart
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Hi Product Hunt! Quick backstory: a little bit over a year ago, we launched the first version of Canvas. We were makers at a few high-growth startups, and one of the most common things we'd seen users do was "export to CSV" and pivot data in Excel. We thought there must be a better way, so we built a spreadsheet that connects to live data and translates everything you do into SQL. We got amazing feedback from our early customers and iterated on it heavily, but it was clear there were still major problems: 1. Not everyone has a database or data warehouse to connect to. 2. Data lives in multiple apps and databases and stitching it all together is a huge pain. 3. Even after all the stitching, raw data really sucks to work with. So we went back to the drawing board and tried to imagine – how would we design this from scratch if we had a magic wand? Enter Canvas 2.0! Jam-packed with features, just to name a few: – Connect to 150+ SaaS apps without code (Stripe, Segment, Hubspot, Intercom, Quickbooks, Shopify, Zendesk, and so many more), as well as any database or warehouse – Use 50+ expert-made templates for common startup use cases (e.g., ARR/MRR, quick ratio, revenue retention, LTV, user retention, customer cohorts, runway, ad spend, marketing attribution, time-to-close) – Slice and dice using powerful spreadsheets and pivots. Use familiar Excel shortcuts and formulas. Save models for reuse. – Design beautiful dashboards and reports. Global filters for your team to explore easily. Tons of visualization options (and constantly adding more!). Color themes to make your charts pop. ✨ – No data team? Our human analysts can help you build complex models, dashboards, board metrics, and investor updates and review your numbers regularly. Check it out and let us know how we did! We really love feedback ❤️ (I would say >90% of the product came out of feedback from our awesome customers.)
Dineshan
Launching soon!
@lukezapart Congrats on the launch, It seems very helpful for startups to analyze and understand what is happening across multiple services.
Luke Zapart
Maker
@gabe_moronta Too true. It's still way too hard!
Zachary DeWitt
@lukezapart This is awesome - who are ideal customers?
Luke Zapart
Maker
@zachary_dewitt Early stage startup or SMB business, no data team (or data team of one) but hungry for analytics! We're pretty popular with SaaS and e-commerce but not exclusively. That said, we're happy to help anyone!
Alpesh Vaghasiya
Looking interesting, looking forward to try it. We don’t have any datapoints and we do use our own tool so does it allow my to calculate MRR and other data points ?
Luke Zapart
Maker
@alpesh_vaghasiya2 Are you tracking this manually currently? How do you collect subscriptions? If it's something like Stripe or Paypal you could connect to that. If you're tracking things manually you can also dump your spreadsheet to CSV and upload that to Canvas.
Alpesh Vaghasiya
@lukezapart right now we are doing via XLS so that will be great. let me take look tool and get back to you if need any help in that
Luke Zapart
Maker
@alpesh_vaghasiya2 Cool, in Excel you can hit "Save as", then pick "CSV (Comma Separated Values)", and upload that in Canvas. And when you need to refresh the charts, just upload a new CSV to replace the old one.
Dzianis Yatsenka
Hey! Congratulations on the launch! I didn't understand if it is analytics system or it is instrument for creating dashboards using the data from analytics systems?
Luke Zapart
Maker
@dzianis_yatsenka Thanks! It's both, actually. It's analytics you can set up yourself, and then create dashboards on top, without having to patch together multiple different systems.
Dustin Diaz
Connecting all the datasources into one canvas, what more could you want!? We're happy customers at Duro Labs, being able to pull in sources from our ticketing system (Zendesk), our Sales pipeline (Hubspot), and our core database API, truly giving us a holistic picture of how everything is interconnected — giving us insights into how we can react and be more strategic with our product decisions. Thanks Canvas!
Luke Zapart
Maker
@ded <3 Duro team. It's been really fun working with you, Melody, Peace, Mike and Andrew. You guys always have great feedback, and thanks to you we now have a solid GraphQL integration :)
Max T.Pham
Hey Luke, congrats on Canvas 2.0! Love the seamless SaaS app connections, expert templates, and powerful spreadsheets. Excited to see how it revolutionizes data analysis for startups. Collected & Supported, Good luck!
Luke Zapart
Maker
@maxtpham Thanks! :)
Jordan Hughes
Incredible product and world class design from James 👌
Luke Zapart
Maker
@jordan__hughes Thank you! James did a phenomenal job on the design. 🪄 So beautiful.
Alexandra
Hello! Can I use it to replace Google Analytics?
Luke Zapart
Maker
@alexandra_quiet We don't directly replace Google Analytics, but we connect to GA – so if you are looking at using an alternative (e.g. Segment), you can use Canvas to combine data from both old GA data and your new event stream. This way you don't use your historical data!
Vera Rose
Wow, sounds amazing! 🤩 I love how you've thought about the pain points of stitching data together from different sources. Templates for common startup use cases are also a great addition. How does your team handle security and privacy concerns when connecting to sensitive data sources?
Luke Zapart
Maker
@vera_mur Thanks! If you use Canvas to centralize your data, behind the scenes, we use best-in-class data warehouses that handle Fortune 500 customers. We don't permanently store any customer data on our own servers, only ephemerally what's necessary to view a dashboard or a table you're looking at – for a short period of time. Any metadata on our own servers (such as your user name) we encrypt at rest. We also follow the principle of least access religiously. A bit more info on our security practices: https://canvasapp.com/docs/secur...
Uchi Uchibeke
Love it! I just synced our Hubspot deals at Chimoney and it worked seamlessly. Looking forward to doing more with it
Luke Zapart
Maker
@king_uchi Woop woop! Let me know if there are any more Hubspot templates you can think of that we could build!
Alexey Merzlikin
Congrats on the launch! it looks very interesting and usefull!
Avijit Roy
Congratulations on the launch!!
Ryan Buick
Maker
@avijit_roy Thank you!
Sophie Benjamin
We love Canvas! Congrats on the launch :)
Luke Zapart
Maker
@srbenjam Thank you Sophie! This 2.0 should be dedicated to you 😄 Anvil is such a great team, we love you too! ❤️
Sumeja Veseli
Good luck🚀🚀
Ryan Buick
Maker
@sumejaveseli Thank you!
Hsj Himansu Shekhar
Love
Konstantine Buhler
Love the new product guys! Especially the low-code options. Great work!
Luke Zapart
Maker
@konstantine_buhler Thanks so much Konstantine!
Naomi Chao
Gotta say, looks real clean 🔥
Luke Zapart
Maker
@naomichao 🔥 Thank you, that means a lot!
Rohit Sai
This looks like a very thoughtful product, all the best guys 👍
Luke Zapart
Maker
@rohit_sai Thank you for the kind words!
Johan Steneros
Great to see you have a free version for early startups.
Luke Zapart
Maker
@jsteneros Feel free to try it out for Bravemark (which looks pretty interesting btw) and let us know what you think!
HUSSAIN AHMED
Congratulations and good luck on the launch!
Luke Zapart
Maker
@hussain_ahmed3 Thank you!