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Re: Show HN: Moanalytics.com – Analytics management for your team

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Post by moritzmoritz21 »

jldugger wrote: post #10
moritzmoritz21 wrote: post #2

Hey everyone! I worked the last weeks on a problem I wanted to solve and came up building this (so far) small tool. In the backlog are quite a few features I want to add to it. The idea behind moanalytics.com is to replace the well-known google sheet companies are using to organise their tracking events for a product. Tracking events always have some parameters which are written down in these sheets. Additionally I a…

> The idea behind moanalytics.com is to replace the well-known google sheet companies are using to organise their tracking events for a product. I... don't know what google sheet you are referring to. Google analytics?

Well at least in my previous companies and the current one we always had one big excel/google/n sheet where all events were organised with their name e.g. "Profile loaded" and the associated parameters "user name", "user id".

And there were sometimes big discussions and unclear documentary about the events.

Re: Show HN: Moanalytics.com – Analytics management for your team

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Post by shostack »

CaveTech wrote: post #4
moritzmoritz21 wrote: post #2

Hey everyone! I worked the last weeks on a problem I wanted to solve and came up building this (so far) small tool. In the backlog are quite a few features I want to add to it. The idea behind moanalytics.com is to replace the well-known google sheet companies are using to organise their tracking events for a product. Tracking events always have some parameters which are written down in these sheets. Additionally I a…

Random Advice, but I'm in Ad Tech and build tracking and attribution platforms. I couldn't figure out what the product was supposed to be doing from the landing page. Reading your comment makes this more clear. I'd advise you to take another stab and the LP copy, and maybe put more practical examples (using real tags/event names for instance?) which make make it easier to understand at first look.

Any chance you can share what company you're at?

I've built these spreadsheets in a Marketing Operations capacity for my marketing teams and our engineering/product/data science counterparts that helped with implementation. I've also done this agency-side.

I can see some value here as a nice UI around it, particularly if there's various roles and permissions I can set for who does what. Also, props to OP for showing screenshots large enough to see what's actually going on in the product.

I'd echo your suggestion about actual events. These should probably be funnel-related events and not random product activity.

Another thing I'd like to see is some sort of version control and changelog/commit message functionality. Having access to the current events and their context is one thing. Having context around what changed and why is another layer of value that is critical for teams that may not be closely interacting on making these changes.

That's really getting into the workflow aspects which include things like notifications and alerts, as well as piping into analytics tools to monitor for things when an event stops reporting data (which may indicate something broke).

CaveTech, are you aware of any other tools on the market that try to productize this common use of spreadsheets like this?

Re: Show HN: Moanalytics.com – Analytics management for your team

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Post by jldugger »

moritzmoritz21 wrote: post #11
jldugger wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The idea behind moanalytics.com is to replace the well-known google sheet companies are using to organise their tracking events for a product. I... don't know what google sheet you are referring to. Google analytics?

Well at least in my previous companies and the current one we always had one big excel/google/n sheet where all events were organised with their name e.g. "Profile loaded" and the associated parameters "user name", "user id". And there were sometimes big discussions and unclear documentary about the events.

So this is a schema tool for javascript events?

Re: Show HN: Moanalytics.com – Analytics management for your team

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Post by itcrowd »

moritzmoritz21 wrote: post #9
hundchenkatze wrote: post #8

As a native English speaker, I can't help but read it as moan analytics.

oh I never thought about it in this way. The name is coming from my nickname tbh "mo".

Maybe consider moranalytics (although it may have "moron" associations) or "molytics" (tagline: mo' lytics, mo' problems).

Re: Show HN: Moanalytics.com – Analytics management for your team

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Post by moritzmoritz21 »

jldugger wrote: post #13
moritzmoritz21 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well at least in my previous companies and the current one we always had one big excel/google/n sheet where all events were organised with their name e.g. "Profile loaded" and the associated parameters "user name", "user id". And there were sometimes big discussions and unclear documentary about the events.

So this is a schema tool for javascript events?

I want to provide a platform where the tech team/product manager can organise all the events.

Where the tracking is tacking place is not determinate. It can be Amplitude, Google Analytics, Firebase, ..

So yeah you can somehow call it "schema tool" to build a template for your tracking.

Re: Show HN: Moanalytics.com – Analytics management for your team

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Post by moritzmoritz21 »

shostack wrote: post #12
CaveTech wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Random Advice, but I'm in Ad Tech and build tracking and attribution platforms. I couldn't figure out what the product was supposed to be doing from the landing page. Reading your comment makes this more clear. I'd advise you to take another stab and the LP copy, and maybe put more practical examples (using real tags/event names for instance?) which make make it easier to understand at first look.

Any chance you can share what company you're at? I've built these spreadsheets in a Marketing Operations capacity for my marketing teams and our engineering/product/data science counterparts that helped with implementation. I've also done this agency-side. I can see some value here as a nice UI around it, particularly if there's various roles and permissions I can set for who does what. Also, props to OP for showing…

To dive in the questions ...

> Another thing I'd like to see is some sort of version control and changelog/commit message functionality. Having access to the current events and their context is one thing. Having context around what changed and why is another layer of value that is critical for teams that may not be closely interacting on making these changes.

versioning I am currently working on. So you are able to go back in history and see what events were tracked for each version.

> I'd echo your suggestion about actual events. These should probably be funnel-related events and not random product activity.

Can you give me an example here? :) I am an engineer and may not see the "other side" of the events.

Re: Show HN: Moanalytics.com – Analytics management for your team

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Post by moritzmoritz21 »

itcrowd wrote: post #14
moritzmoritz21 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh I never thought about it in this way. The name is coming from my nickname tbh "mo".

Maybe consider moranalytics (although it may have "moron" associations) or "molytics" (tagline: mo' lytics, mo' problems).

molytics sounds cool!

I thought about so many names ... checked the domains => taken :D

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