What’s ahead for Redash in 2019 🤩
Tags: yearinreview, 2018, 2019
Published: 2019-01-16 10:51:34

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title: What’s ahead for Redash in 2019 🤩
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description: A look back on Redash in 2018 and a look ahead on our plans for 2019.
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When I wrote [the blog post announcing the founding of the Redash company](https://medium.com/@arikfr/the-journey-from-side-project-to-open-source-company-taking-the-first-step-8e8259ac80cb), I was naive enough to believe that I would write regular updates about the process of building Redash as a product and a company. Silly me. Turns out it's a full-time job and then some to build a product, bootstrap a company and grow a team. Something had to give; and one such thing was regular updates about the process. So much has happened by now that one article could hardly cover it all. But with 2018 recently concluded, here is my attempt to summarize the last twelve months and take a peek at what's to come.

On its surface, Redash's trajectory in 2018 went like previous years: we added users and customers, grew our revenues, and made the product better than ever. But there was one big difference as we entered 2018: Redash became a team effort.

Until late-2017, Redash was a one-man operation. It became a group of three at the start of 2018. And now for 2019 there are six of us. What enabled this team growth was our customers. As before, we haven’t taken any external funding. To all our past and present customers: **thank you 🙏**

> *While we started as a team of 3 in 2018, we are starting 2019 as a team of 6. What enabled this team growth was our customers.*

As Redash matured as a company, the product also matured dramatically in 2018. We had three major releases ([v4](https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.redash.io%2Fredash-v4-is-out-36c11fe0c682), [v5](https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.redash.io%2Fredash-v5-is-out-1d9a3d93c20a) and [v6](https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.redash.io%2Fjust-in-time-for-christmas-redash-v6-70cb23dfbbf3)) that included:

- New UI and better UX
- Dynamic dashboard layouts
- Tagging and Favorites
- Parameters UI improvements
- More visualizations
- More data sources

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  <img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*WYVzC1Kmgia6OzFSlM_h5w.png" alt="New Dashboards UX introduced in V4" style="width:100%">
  <figcaption>A glimpse of the new UI introduced in V4.</figcaption>
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# **Plans for 2019**

## **Team Effort**

As the team grows, we're building procedures that keep Redash a fun and productive place to work and (importantly) make **me** redundant to the day to day operations of the company. This will improve team velocity, promote greater stability for our customers, and free my time to focus on more strategic projects.

## **Even more interactive dashboards and queries**

In the releases we made in 2018, we improved the UI for parameters significantly. In 2019 we’re going to finish this effort by adding a few more needed capabilities to parameters (optional parameters, multiple select, better support in dashboards) and by making parameters available everywhere (read only users, shared dashboards, embeds).

## **Better Permissions Model**

Once we have the ability to safely run parameterized queries, we can finally upgrade the Redash permission model and make it more user friendly. The goal is to augment the current model (if you have access to the data source, you have access to the query/dashboard) with a Google Drive like model, where you can assign permissions to individual users or groups on the content level.

Coupled with the improved parameters support mentioned above, Redash in 2019 will reach further and empower more people inside your organizations.

## **Technical Progress**

This year, we plan to conclude our migration to React that began in 2018. This should make it  easier to add features and interface with our open-source community. We will also continue to improve the testing story around Redash (thanks Cypress and Percy!). All this will allow us to release more often with greater confidence.

## **Community**

We recently invited nine members from the user community to become Redash maintainers. In 2019, we want to improve our coordination with maintainers and clean up our backlog of Pull Requests.

## **More Guides and Resources**

One thing we neglected in 2018 was to produce up-to-date documentation and usage examples. We want to change this in 2019, but we would also appreciate your feedback! If you have any interesting uses of Redash, we urge you to share them. [The forum](https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.redash.io) is a great venue for this.

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These are our plans *for now*. It’s known that no plan survives first contact, so we hope to still surprise you (and ourselves 😅) with some of what we will achieve in 2019. 🍾