Connect monday.com to Power BI in 5 minutes โ without OData headaches
The traditional OData approach requires separate auth dialogs, complex credential management, and breaks on every refresh. Here's a better way using OrbitKit BI's tokenized JSON feed URLs โ paste one URL, anonymous auth, live data forever.
OrbitKit BI v1.0 โ what shipped and why
OAuth 2.0, multi-board connectors, column selectors, and why JSON beats OData for Power BI.
Why monday.com session tokens can't be used server-side
A lesson learned the hard way โ the iframe session token is rejected by monday.com's GraphQL API.
5 monday.com column types that trip up Power BI
Status labels, people, timelines, dropdowns โ each needs special handling in Power Query.
Building a real-time Tableau dashboard with monday.com
Step-by-step: install OrbitKit BI, create a connector, paste the WDC URL, build live dashboard.
Deploying a monday.com backend on Railway in 2026
MongoDB, Express, OAuth callbacks, env variables โ how OrbitKit BI's backend is structured and deployed.
Why I'm building monday.com apps as a solo indie developer
On publishing as an individual, the tradeoffs, and why owning everything is the point.