Image Charts

• Email

• Reporting emails

• Chat bots

• Embedding charts on wordpress, magento, etc.

• Excel sheet ⇒ chart image

Competitive Analysis

• https://www.image-charts.com/
• Drop-in replacement for Google Image Charts
• Supports GIFs
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7ipCKWwWSEsUnNS0IoN0kb3xjBXxWfuqIU32ns3RBs/edit#gid=692639863

• https://quickchart.io/
• Uses https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js (46k stars)

• https://charturl.com/
• Based on templates
• Then either POST ⇒ short URL or

• https://developers.google.com/chart/image (deprecated)

• https://www.notion.vip/charts/

• https://imgchart.net/ (new)

• https://vizydrop.com/notion (notion)

• https://www.notion.vip/charts (notion)

• https://dev.to/richharris/a-new-technique-for-making-responsive-javascript-free-charts-gmp

Chart Styles

• xkcd charts

• rough charts

• rough.js

• chartjs-plugin-rough

• https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz

Ideas

• allow hydrating charts with interactive versions via script embed

• gochartyourself.com

Features

• Two unique drawing styles

• Subsecond latency

• (todo) Global CDN

• (todo) WebP and GIF support

• No watermark

• (possibly post-v1) Custom subdomains

• Support for multiple encoding formats (see jsoncrush)

Todo

• Figure out caching strategy: ticket

• Figure out approach to calling from client-side: ticket

• Service should be aware of authenticated user: ticket

• Add support for multiple pricing plans

Marketing

• https://dev.to/richharris/a-new-technique-for-making-responsive-javascript-free-charts-gmp