[wing-_-nuts]

> If you are in the backend side of things you can figure out most things with a few sql queries.

Expand on this? You querying the prod db to sus out the health of the company?

[willcipriano]

For the platforms I've built I've had access to the customers table for example, you know if it's growing or shrinking.

You don't even have to explicitly nose around, looking at the logs you'll see customer IDs and if they are sequential a keen eye will notice if they stop getting any higher.

[bluedino]

We generated a report each week to let all the devs know how many customers we had starting that week, what products they were launching, how many users they each had...

It was great for planning the on-call rotation as well as giving us a heads up on which nights we could go out drinking and how late we could come in the next morning.

[krallja]

Even without querying prod db, postgres://billing.and.analytics.internal is available to most engineers in small startups.

[akavi]

Yeah, the lack of a revenue dashboard at a startup would be a red flag in and of itself.