TIL about Swarmia Explore metrics. I was trying to gather stats on some team stuff, and their AI tool directed me there.
The most interesting thing about it to me isn’t necessarily the feature itself, but their data storage. It’s clearly marked as a research preview feature, and they let you manually edit the JSON that builds the report at the bottom of the page (with plentiful disclaimers that the format might change).
Since they haven’t committed to a storage format, it looks like they’re currently storing “saved views” as the full JSON of the report, and when you navigate to one, the entire report is passed as a query param in the URL.
I love this idea for a test feature when you’re not sure what the eventual data storage ought to look like. Just throw it in a JSON blob, and don’t bother codifying anything beyond storing JSON. Things will break as the schema evolves, but you get ultimate flexibility in the meantime while you’re working out the inner details of the feature.