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Case Study · SaaS B2B · Irvine, CA

LaBoard

An MVP of a real-time visual dashboard board: a browser-based canvas where teams assemble live dashboards from charts, tables, gauges and a map layer — every element bound to live data and shared for collaboration. Shipped as an installable, offline-capable PWA.

  • Started November 2021
  • Team of 5
  • On time · on budget
  • 6 pilot projects after launch
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01 / The Challenge

Real-time
or nothing

A dashboard that needs a refresh button is a report. The bar for this MVP: boards that live — data flowing in from customers' own sources, several people editing at once, and the whole thing installable like a native app.

Live by
default

Every component on a board reflects data the moment it changes — synchronized through the cloud for all collaborators at once, with sharing and invitations built in.

An app, not
a web page

Delivered as a progressive web app: installable on the desktop, offline-capable shell, served and updated from the cloud with no deployment friction for users.

Proven in
production

The MVP had to survive contact with reality: after launch it carried 6 pilot projects, each bound to real customer data sources through live connectors.

02 / Team & Process

Five people,
zero deviation

5team members
6pilot projects on the MVP
0schedule deviation
0budget deviation

Composition

  • 1 product manager · 1 architect
  • 1 frontend · 1 backend
  • 1 systems analyst

Delivery

  • ~900 tasks in ~20 feature epics — all completed
  • Delivered on time and on budget

Validation

  • 6 pilot projects supported after launch
  • Boards bound to real customer data via live connectors

03 / Technology

A canvas engine
in the browser

TypeScript / SolidJS on the front, Firebase and Google Cloud behind — with a custom canvas diagram engine at the heart of the board.

  • FrontendTypeScript · SolidJS · custom canvas diagram engine (view area, groups, selections, primitives, lines, text)
  • VisualizationChart.js 4 — 11 chart types · tables & pivot tables · Leaflet 1.9 GIS layer with geocoding
  • State & buildZustand · webpack 5 + Babel · SCSS · PWA via Workbox service worker
  • CloudFirebase Auth · Realtime Database (live sync & collaboration) · Cloud Storage · Cloud Functions · security rules
  • IntegrationsData-source connector services feeding external live data onto the boards

04 / The Scale

By the numbers

~900tasks — all completed
~20feature epics
80frontend modules
15application services
11chart types
12UI panels & toolbars
6pilot projects after launch
0schedule & budget deviation

05 / Outcome

Shipped on time. Proven in pilots.

From a start in November 2021 to an MVP delivered with zero schedule and zero budget deviation — ~900 tasks across ~20 epics, all completed. Then the real test: 6 pilot projects running live on customers' own data.

"They responded incredibly fast to evolving client demands and delivered new features even faster than our clients were ready to adopt them."

Co-Founder (name withheld)
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