Because there are custom decks, alerts, and all kinds of other things that get saved to an account. You setup your own decks and your own chart layers. They get saved to your account so you always get the same layout when you come back.
You can create a demo page for everyone to be able to experience the product without signing-up. You can diable chat messaging in this demo and make it read-only if needed.
Having said that, I genuinely liked the appeal of the product.
Data categories:
Aviation
Conflict
Consumer
Cyber
Demographics
Energy
Financials
Food & Water
Health
Humanitarian
Refugees
Innovation
Law & Regs
Maritime
Military
News
Nuclear & WMD
Political
Prediction Markets
Sanctions
Seismic & Geological
Social Media
Satellites
Supply Chain
Terrorism
Weather
Climate
Cool, congrats on shipping. Looks similar to worldmonitor [0][1]. What's the main use-case for this kind of thing? What' the "Watch Floor" you mention?
IMHo the main use case is keeping up with a crazy world in data not words written by other people. I have trust issues with the media and with social "new media" and just crave data so I can form my own views as best I can and decide what to research into deeper. It's extremely chaotic and I expect it to get even more chaotic. I can see other uses, such as in prediction markets, investing, journalism as well. But mine is more of the pure play "monitor the situation" type.
Yes, I believe that is one of the data sources. If you click on Data Feeds on the top right, all sources are listed and attributed in-app. It uses only open sources, except for a few paid APIs for things that are not open (like real time flights).
Adding, I wanted to see the humanitarian data sources and widgets.
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