# Basedash launch demo 6: Sharing and collaboration

Tom Johnson · 2025-01-28

[Basedash](https://x.com/tomjohndesign/status/1884366322680602815)

The sixth launch-day demo, probably the last one of the day, was sharing and collaboration. It's a peek into where we're going with [Basedash](https://www.tomjohn.design/content/basedash). The first versions are in, but after we launch, if we get more people in the product, we're really excited to push it further [(0:18)](#t=18). I showed it on the website dashboard of Google Analytics data from [the integrations demo](https://www.tomjohn.design/content/basedash-integrations) [(0:26)](#t=26). You can copy a link, or hit Command-Option-C, but you can also copy it as a PNG, which generates a picture of the dashboard and puts it on your clipboard, so you can paste it in Slack, a spreadsheet or a slide deck, anywhere you want [(0:41)](#t=41).

![Copying the website dashboard as a PNG, captioned as I say: “but I can also go here and say copy as PNG, and what that'll do is it'll generate a PNG of this dashboard and it'll copy it to my clipboard,”](https://nlzkl2bo0qmd3uti.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/talks/clips/basedash-sharing/copy-as-png-haFo0ojWGXcMxaEkYvo1jPTp9jf8WI.mp4 "Clip")

Inside a chart, the share button isn't just a link, it's a share to Slack [(1:10)](#t=70). With Slack connected, I picked the growth channel, wrote "Whoa, look at this chart", hit share to growth, and it was in there, so they can see the trends, click on it and come in [(1:23)](#t=83).

![Sharing a chart to the growth channel in Slack, captioned as I say: “say whoa, look at this chart, and they're going to say what's going on, and I just hit share to growth, and it's in there.”](https://nlzkl2bo0qmd3uti.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/talks/clips/basedash-sharing/share-to-growth-gHpmDtbaNbAoHM5ZkNb2oKgrXr3SGe.mp4 "Clip")

You can also jump to where your teammates are. In a product like this, like with Notion or whatever, it's really annoying to know Derek is on this page but not where he is [(1:46)](#t=106). If I hover over a teammate there's a little button, and I can jump right to Derek and join him on the same page, whether he's in a SQL query, somewhere pretty nested, or on a chart page [(1:54)](#t=114).

![Hovering over Derek in the sidebar to jump to his page, captioned as I say: “So if I hover over a teammate over here, I can see this little button here, and I can just jump right to Derek, join him with the same page.”](https://nlzkl2bo0qmd3uti.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/talks/clips/basedash-sharing/jump-to-derek-tgKRRILhgz9doYkAXnYdxYFYoRM0fJ.mp4 "Clip")

The next steps for charts and sharing were going to be automated sharing, email sharing and more [(2:10)](#t=130). But the important thing right then was making sure Basedash charts weren't just the best looking, they were also the easiest to share to other places [(2:21)](#t=141).

When I posted it on X I wrote:

> Demo 6 - Sharing and Collaboration
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> It's the early days for this product, but we have big big plans for collaboration and sharing. I know firsthand, having worked at a big org, that having the data is only part of the battle.
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> The hard part is making sure that the right people see it.
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> That they understand it.
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> And that they don't have to think about what it means to the,
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> This is just getting started.
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> For now, we've made it easy to share charts quickly. You can copy every chart as a png with just a click. You can connect slack and share them to any channel.
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> For collaboration, you can jump to teammates, no matter where they are in the app, to help with a complex query or just to brows the data together.
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> I'm convinced that this is one of the biggest places we have to innovate in. Dashboards don't have to be static. They don't have to be boring.
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> They tell a story, and with Basedash, we want to make it so that every use can jump right in an start using data to tell their product stories.
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> Stay tuned...