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Meet The Team

What sort of minds can make sense of the myriad of data and analytics platforms and cloud services available to business owners today? What sort of minds can simplify and aggregate those platforms into one simple interface? Viur didn't happen overnight, but from the dedication and hard work of a team who complement each other, making sure all the right slots are filled, and the right questions are answered. Discover the people behind Viur, making business intelligence easy for your business. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain Based in Coimbra in central Portugal, Viur is the brainchild of Pedro Almeida and David Custódio, who started developing the platform in 2013. Pedro has a background in...

New Features

Our vision is to create a product so simple that anyone can use, hiding all the complex processes in data analysis. This week we focused on improving the user onboarding. The biggest change is the “help” button that allows you to immediately authorize Google Analytics and add widgets to the dashboard in a heartbeat. This help page also has other topics regarding database widgets and data exploration. With time, we will add more useful topics, and refine the existing. Clicking the help will open a friendly modal: Feel free to give a thumbs up! Another big new feature is that you can now edit widgets from the dashboard. Editing the widget will open it in the “Widget Creator” where you...

Launch Day + Analytics

The big day has come, and we finally released the Beta version of Viur for a selected few. This post describes what tools we used and how we used them. Since day one we have a subscription form on the landing page to capture early adopters. This allowed us to have a good user pool to start working as soon as we had something to show. For this, we used Mailchimp, which has a generous free tier and allows you to set up email campaigns and track opens and clicks among other things. In the main site we use two awesome tools: Google Analytics to track specific metrics (like bounce, exit rate,etc...), goals and specific events we...