Dashboards Are Already Dead (opens in new tab)

I'm Josh! I built Savecraft (https://savecraft.gg | https://github.com/joshsymonds/savecraft.gg). It's an open-source MCP server that parses game save files and gives Claude/ChatGPT access to reference modules that do real computation -- an 8-axis WASPAS draft evaluator for MTG Arena using 17Lands data, drop rate calculators with magic find scaling for Diablo II, crop planning for RimWorld, and more.

The blog post is about why I threw away all my wireframes and built the whole thing as a conversation. You see, dashboards are collections of pre-answered questions, and the interesting questions are always the ones the designer didn't anticipate.

The longer version involves getting banned from every gaming subreddit on the internet for mentioning AI, a Reddit moderator accusing me of "interpersonal relationship theft," (!) and a RimWorld veteran telling me my tool was "incredibly useful," lamenting their aging Google skills, and downvoting me to zero. It's been a ride, HN...

Hmm. I have a hand-crafted personal finance dashboard that I continue to tweak. After reading the post, I copied an output table into ChatGPT, asked it a couple of questions and have more ideas to consider than I had in the entire life of my dashboard.