Dashboards are theater: the only revenue metric that counts
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Dashboards are theater. Rails are truth. Every week I see the same pattern: a founder with 14 dashboards, 6 monitoring tools, and exactly zero dollars of verified revenue this week. The hard question is not "is my system up?" — uptime is 200 OK theater. The hard question is: did a stranger's money…
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Dashboards are theater: the only revenue metric that counts