Hivestats
A super useful tool that helps many of us track our weekly and monthly activity as authors, curators, and witness node operators is Hive Stats.
Hive stats allows us to view our account growth and other statistics in table and chart form.
It also gives us useful information such as the value of our vote and the percentage of APR we're currently earning from curation.
Very useful statistics to get a basic overview of our account behavior, but not enough detail to use it as a business tool.
What are some improvements that can be made to the current Hive Stats interface?
Here are a few:
Longer and custom periods
The first thing Hive Stats needs (in my opinion) is longer periods of data and a way to compare account behavior from week to week, month to month, or year to year. This would allow us to try out different posting, curation and delegation strategies and adjust them after seeing the results.
Alternate denominations
Right now, the account growth chart (on the left) is displayed in Hive Power, while earnings (the chart on the right) is displayed in USD. While dollar denominations give us an idea of how our account performed in any given week, it might also be useful to be able to switch denominations from USD to HIVE to Satoshis. This way, one could do analysis independent from the current price of $HIVE based on USD. We could instead use HIVE or HIVE compared to Bitcoin.
Downloadable data
Once you have the data you're looking for, you could have a big, red, button that says Download to Excel. Where you could rearrange your data however you like and make your own tables and charts.
Another use case HBD stable coin
I'm aware that such developments, as simple as they may seem, require time from skilled programmers and perhaps additional servers and maybe even more nodes, but Khal has already expressed that the Inleo team plans on adding more services to the Premium subscribers.
This could very well be Premium feature or a separate paid service, where one would have to subscribe per month or per year to have access to these deeper analytics, creating another use case for $HIVE and $HBD.
Hive SQL
Of course there is an awesome tool called Hive SQL Where with a little bit of knowledge of popular programming languages such as Python, PHP or Ruby, one could easily download information from the HIVE blockchain and perform our own analysis, but programming is not a skill everybody possesses.
I know there's also a step by step tutorial for Excel users so you can download the data and arrange it in pivot tables, but I'm not sure how easy it is for regular, non-developer folks like me.
User Experience (UX)
Hive already has a ton of amazing tools, many of which are useful for business owners such as myself. For any of them to become massively adopted, however, they have to be incredibly intuitive and easy to use. Just like nobody wants to have to switch nodes while watching our favorite movie on Netflix, we just want stuff build on the Hive blockchain to work; seamlessly.
Having additional paid options for statistics readily available on a familiar website such as hivestats.io is something, I think, more than a few projects or businesses would be willing to pay for.