[mwetzler]

Agree! My personal experience: our customers at Keen IO constantly demand better visualizations and many expect a traditional analytics frontend like GA. However... our highest value customers pay for our API capabilities, not our line charts. Storage and querying at massive scale is the hard part and that is worth thousands of dollars a month, not tens or hundreds.

Stunning visualizations and a better web experience are definitely something we want to do when timing allows, but so far our true customer value is in the backend and our APIs.