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Kevin William David

Grafiti - The search engine for graphs and charts - on the web & Slack

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Grafiti is a new search engine for charts, graphs, infographics, and soon, data sets! We're making the world's best visual insights easier to find, discover and use on the web and Slack.

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Farhan Mustafa
Maker
Hi Hunters! We’re excited to share Grafiti - a new search engine for graphs, charts & visual insights on the web & Slack. First off, a huge thanks to @kevin for hunting us :) We appreciate the guidance! In our collective experiences (journalism, consulting, banking, marketing), we know finding the right credible chart or piece of data when you need it - for your deck, article or argument - can be a pain. Google offers a lot of content, but also a lot of noise. I personally started this journey as an investigative journalist during the Arab Spring, fact-checking revolutions from my phone while on the ground. I experienced first-hand how hard it is to access real data & facts quickly - and how misinformation can spread even faster. In a world where we can find GIFs, emojis and memes at the push of a finger, we believe data & facts should be as easy to find too! Here’s what you can do with Grafiti on the web: - Search & share over 200K charts, graphs, infographics & visual insights from credible publishers (digital and business media, business insights, trade orgs, non-profit/NGOs and more) as well as individual contributors. Our index is growing every day! - Browse, create & share collections (groups/boards of charts). Check out our featured collections for examples. - Upload your own charts for private or public use. On Slack, you can search & post charts from within Slack using our integration. Just type “/grafiti”, enter your keywords and hit enter. We’d love your feedback, particularly on the following: 1. Is our value proposition clear to you? Does it meet your needs? If so, why or why not? 2. What’s your feeling on how credible the information is? What could help improve that? 3. How can we better organize site? 4. How else can we improve your experience? Any other questions, comments or feedback, please chime in! Thanks again, Farhan
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@kevin @paroma Thanks Paroma! Does it meet a need for you?
Nicolas Curti
When I searched "international money transfers", it returned a graph about poland and his population. The idea is great, the product looks solid, now you just lack the content. Keep on, this is really useful!
Chandni Chopra
Maker
@nicolas_curti sorry about that. You're right, we're working on refining the search experience/results and adding additional content every day. Hopefully, when you check us out again, you'll much better results. Thank you for giving us a test run!
Maria
@nicolas_curti @chandni_chopra Don't be too discouraged! It's a work in progress but it looks like you put in a lot of time and effort already. :)
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@nicolas_curti @chandni_chopra @mariaelekt thanks for the support, Maria! if you have any suggestions, please let us know.
Lachlan Kirkwood
Such an incredible repository of data! Love how intuitive the search function is. Looking forward to integrated it in Slack too. Nice work team 🔥
Chandni Chopra
Maker
@lachlankirkwood Thank you for checking us out and the kind words! If you have any feedback on the slack integration, just give us a holler (hi@grafiti.io)!
Primer
@lachlankirkwood @grafiti @chandni_chopra I found the search to be non-intuituve... i mean i figured it out but initially I really had no idea what to type. I would advise changing your placeholder text in the search box to be an example search eg "Time spent online"
Chandni Chopra
Maker
@mickc79 ah, sorry about that! this is great feedback and something we can action very quickly so thank you!
Kourtney Bitterly
I actually used Grafiti to pull together some background data for a research project. Working in r&d in media, I’m frequently working in really vague and emerging spaces. Being able to ground myself and my team in data helps us form hypotheses that inform the rest of our research. This product is really helpful to have one place to search for and gather that information rather than wading through Google. I just want data that’s actionable and this makes it easier.
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@kourtbitterly thanks for the awesome use case! And always good to hear we're preferable to Google in some way. How do you think we can be more sticky compared to Google?
Kourtney Bitterly
@farhan_mustafa2 it filters out the noise compared to Google. I know I’m getting something relevant rather than having to go through the mentally taxing process of determining if the information is reliable. I think the focus already makes it more valuable but increased volume of charts would make it one stop.
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@kourtbitterly thanks Kourtney, that's extremely helpful and we'll keep focusing on adding more quality vetted insights!
Chandni Chopra
Maker
Hey everyone - we really appreciated your thoughts on our initial version of Grafiti and have diligently worked to upgrade our product (2x the charts and graphs, many ways to sort and filter, and Sherlock our helpful assistant to find what no one else can!). We just launched on PH as Grafiti 2.0!
Evgeny Pozdeev
Looks impressive, great job! It'll be very cool if the data which is on graphs and charts would be available in text format, so I could rebuild the graph:)
Chandni Chopra
Maker
@yevgeniy_pozdeyev Thank you for taking a look! And yes, absolutely - adding the ability to download data and enabling users to create their own data visualizations is something that is on our roadmap.
M Foros
Finally a search engine for charts... loving it!
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@m_foros Thanks so much! If you have any feedback or requests, please let us know!
Kobina Ansah
I think this is a really cool resource for creating presentations and investor desks. Many late nights of searching for appropriate infographics, could have ended much earlier if I had known about this!!!! (ha ha) And the best part is this resource is free at the moment, which is helpful for a price sensitive entrepreneur like myself. I will definitely use this going forward.
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@kobinaansah2 thank you especially for pointing out the cost :) If you remember any key pains you hated while searching, do let us know. I do a lot of market research and one of my biggest pains has been sorting out credible sources from non on Google.
Kobina Ansah
@farhan_mustafa2 I will certainly do that, and tell some of my friends at an accelerator getting ready for demo day about it.
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@kobinaansah2 awesome, thanks so much!!!
Beth Ziesenis
This is awesome! I'm putting it into the book of apps I'm writing right now. Congrats! And thanks for sharing.
Chandni Chopra
Maker
@nerdybff Thank you for taking a look! Would love to see said book when it's ready :)
Tyler Nass
I always struggled find charts on the internet when I was in high school, now that I know how I can it's awsome!
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@tyler_nass thanks Tyler! Yeah, a lot of this was driven by frustrations i had with researching things, and I'm a visual learner. Hope this helps and let us know how we can improve!
Jayne Durden
I this day and age we all need facts to fight the BS ... Grafiti gives you that in graphs and charts. Makes me look and feel cool ..
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@jaynedurden Thanks Jayne! I'll take looking & feeling cool along with charts if that's possible :) If we can help with any requests, let us know!
Keshav Dhandhania
@farhan_mustafa2 Have you noticed patterns in what kinds of search queries this works well for and what kind of queries give undesirable results at the moment? Congrats on the launch!
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@keshav_dhandhania Hi Keshav, great question! Yes, right now i'd say there's more content leaning towards business, marketing and global development with a mix of news publishers as well as other topic-driven sources for sports, health, etc. What are you looking for and how can we improve our content?
Keshav Dhandhania
@farhan_mustafa2 As a data oriented person, I often look for graphical summaries instead of reading long articles. So I was just trying to search a few terms to see how well the product was working. The results for "world population" were awesome, but the results for "us state populations" / "us population by state" was mostly unrelated.
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@keshav_dhandhania ah that's very helpful, thanks again! Yeah, we're working on search syntax and it's a pretty fun problem when it comes to "reading" charts :)
AKBAR KHAN
Great platform for comparative studies. Thanks team for providing useful data in a unique way. Special thanks to Farhan Mustafa for providing me everything i needed for a research paper. Keep it up!!
Chandni Chopra
Maker
@akbar_khan4 thanks for checking us out! We hope you continue using our platform for future data needs as well!!
Shakeeb Mustafa
Really slick UI on the mobile web version. Responsive, clean and consistent.
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@shakeeb_mustafa Thanks Shakeeb! Do you think you'd use this more on mobile or desktop?
Sean Weiser
Great product!
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@seanweiser101 Thanks Sean! If there's anything else we can do to make it a better experience, please let us know!
Dante Martin
Great UI and fast results! They could use some tuning though. For example if the search includes the word "forecast" it shouldn't show charts where the latest year is in the past.
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@dante_martin Thanks for the tip Dante! That's actually super helpful, esp as we're currently designing filters for years, publishers & data sources. Any more thoughts like that, keep them coming!
Corinna Keefe
Hi @farhan_mustafa2 ! I love this idea but I'm curious about attribution, copyright issues etc for such a large variety of resources. Do you only index content that's free to use? How do you manage it?
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@corinna_keefe Hi Corrina, thanks for checking it out! We index content under fair use principles by attributing & linking to the original source for all of our content. We are currently working on filters for image copyright types to make these issues easier to navigate. If you have any suggestions please let me know.
Siddharth Potbhare
Love the ease of use to get detailed stats. Personally it helps me win an argument every time! Nice work. Keep it up.
Farhan Mustafa
Maker
@siddharth_potbhare Thanks Siddharth! If you have any feedback, let us know.
Yasmeen Khan Mustafa
Love the speed of getting the data so accurately.
Chandni Chopra
Maker
@yasmeen_khan_mustafa Thank you for giving us a try! If you have any further feedback on the experience, please send it our way!
Zubaida Khan
It’s an excellent engine
Chandni Chopra
Maker
@zubaida_khan thank you for giving us a try! Please shoot us any feedback you have over time as we're always trying to improve!