Kat Manalac

Actiondesk 2.0 - Build live reports with your database data in a spreadsheet

Actiondesk lets everyone in your company easily answer questions with data - without bothering the engineering team
- It's a spreadsheet: you can build pivot table and use formulas
- Actiondesk connects to your database and updates the data every hour

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Romy Lynch
I use Actiondesk on a daily basis to check out my key metrics report and run once off analyses. As a non-technical founder with no prior SQL or coding skills, the power it gives me is incredible - I haven't asked my eng team for analytics or DB help in months! Would *highly* recommend for any founder to check it out - it's a game changer and has saved me + my team so much time. Congrats on the launch Jonathan and team πŸš€πŸš€πŸš€
Jonathan Parisot
@romylynch Thanks for sharing your experience with Actiondesk here! And thanks for being very patient with our bugs 1 year ago when you started using Actiondesk.
Jonathan Parisot
Thanks @katmanalac for hunting us πŸ™ Hey Product Hunt, After 2 years of hard work, we're super excited to launch Actiondesk publicly. πŸ€” What is it? Actiondesk lets everyone in your company easily answer questions with data - without bothering the engineering team - Actiondesk is a full fledged spreadsheet: you can build pivot table and use formulas your non technical team members are already familiar with - The data is always up to date. Actiondesk connects to your database and other data sources and updates the data every hour. πŸ”₯ Why we're working on this In my previous job, we had tons of dashboards created by a centralized BI team. It was fine, but sometimes, these dashboards are not exactly what we needed. - Maybe they didn't consider a specific edge case of our specific team - Maybe they didn't plan on a specific filter we wanted to do - etc Asking them to make the changes would be too slow as they already have too much work (we were a +1,000 employees company) As a result, we defaulted to creating our own reports on Excel. The problem was that the data was never up to date. We had to export data from our systems every time we wanted fresh data in our Excel reports. I wished I had something that's as easy and flexible as Excel and that would connect directly to our databases and SaaS tools. That's exactly what we're building with Actiondesk. 😌 Problems it solves Your non technical teams need to be able to answer questions with data quickly - without having to go through your engineering or BI team πŸ›  Example of use cases - For founders and executives: Key metrics report. Have a unified line by line report with weekly or monthly metrics such as Revenue, # of customers, cost, product usage, etc - For the Finance team: Track actuals vs forecast. Compare easily in one spreadsheet actual revenue, cost, profit vs forecasts. - For the Sales team: custom sales funnel report. Build a custom sales Funnel report with your CRM's data and make sure your team is focused on meeting your objectives - For Ecommerce Operations: Track your orders lifecycle. Build a unified report with your # of orders placed, shipped and delivered, returns, discounts, and so on. πŸš€ And if you want to try it out: a few steps to reach the aha moment with Actiondesk - Create your account by following this link (2 weeks free trial) - Follow the onboarding flow to learn how our pivot table works - Connect your database - Build your first report. If you need help, hit us on the Intercom messenger, we're happy to help! πŸ’° How to redeem the 30% off for 3 months When upgrading after your 2 weeks free trial, just enter the code "PH2021" Looking forward to your feedback!
David Leuliette
@katmanalac @joparisot > - Create your account by following this link (2 weeks free trial) https://www.actiondesk.io/?utm_s... Why your onboarding link is not like this? https://www.actiondesk.io/reques... <------- saves one click and sparks joy
Jonathan Parisot
@katmanalac @flexbox Fair point! I'll edit
Aditya
@joparisot Congratulations on the launch! Is this Actiondesk 2.0? Would love to know about the updates since the original launch https://www.producthunt.com/post...
David Tran
@joparisot this is great solution for Data Team. Will suggest my Datat team to try it and see how it works.
Raph Grieco
I've been following Jo & Actiondesk for years even when they had not incorporated. They're truly an A++ team, harnessing the power of focus to ship such a useful tool. What I really like about Actiondesk: you can access your data in a spreadsheet and give *autonomous* access to the company data to any business user in a *no code* tool. Stellar progress, all the best on your public launch!
Jonathan Parisot
@rphgrc Thank you for your continuous support Raph! πŸ™
Кarl
This looks amazing, always struggled with BI tools, not everybody can use SQL(even if they should learn it), import export csv is my nightmare and relying on the eng teams to make changes is a pain. Sometimes all you need is good ol' spreadsheet. Congrats !
Jonathan Parisot
@karlrfdmna Yessss exactly! Saw you created an account this morning Karl, let me know if I can do anything to help and if you have any feedback!
Alexis Fogel
Very useful even if you already have a data stack for simplifying communication and selfserve for business stakeholders. Congrats
Jonathan Parisot
@alexisfogel Thanks Alexis, means a lot coming from you!
Nicolas Jacques
Great product from a great team! Actiondesk is one of the trendiest nocode app in the analytics sector and their success is deserved.
Jonathan Parisot
@make_the_web_cool_again Thanks for the support Nicolas!
Hassan Bourgi
Using it everyday and addicted to it! As powerful as excel and synchronized with our DB
Jonathan Parisot
@hassan_bourgi Thanks so much Hassan! You and your team were part of one of our earliest cohort of users and you've been so patient with our bugs back then
Emma Butler
This looks AWESOME! This is going to save so many people, myself included, so much time and energy!
Jonathan Parisot
@emma_butler2 Thanks Emma πŸ™‚!!!
Siddhesh Lokare
Organizing data and leveraging it for mapping OKRs has just become easy with Actuiondesk! Kudos to all the makers!
Preeti Chovoor
This would honestly help a lot in the marketing and business world!
Muralidharan Venkatasubramanian
Congrats on the launch! Actiondesk is looking more amazing everytime I look at it!
Jonathan Parisot
@new_user_514efddfe6 Thanks for the kind words Murali!
Max
Definitely the easiest and fastest way to play with internal data! Go Actiondesk!!
Jonathan Parisot
@maxime_corbani Thanks Max, glad to see you here!
Amine Skalli
It looks crazy useful yet so simple ! Love it
Jonathan Parisot
@amine_skalli Thanks for the kind words Amine!
Girdharee Saran
Great product !
Jonathan Parisot
@giri Thank you!
Ryan Hayward
Looks great! Congrats on the launch.
Jonathan Parisot
@pitchproof Thank you Ryan!
Vivek Mehra
great
Francoo
hi there, how this compares to amplitude analytics ?
Jonathan Parisot
@francoolaami Hi, Amplitude will typically only work with usage data (events triggered by your app). Actiondesk connects to databases, data warehouses, CRMs and so on. Furthermore, Amplitude doesn't work like a spreadsheet. You need to learn how to use Amplitude whereas Actiondesk works very similarly to Google Sheets or Excel. Does that answer your question?
Baker Ayekundira
Superb product. Easy to use especially if you're coming from spreadsheets and supports the most common data sources. All this with no code involved!
Jonathan Parisot
@baker_ayekundira Thank you for the kind words
Florian Bersier
Congrats on the product launch @joparisot!
Tafseer Quran
This is Amazing !
Jonathan Parisot
@tafseerquran Glad you like it!