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Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That does create clusters for users that work at the same company, with the same company-issued devices. Or iPhones in a New York City block.

This is the same problem that I had with parsing logs. There's no way to know that mom+dad+kid all using the same model device were 3 different users.

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Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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A few months back we were also planning to start a similar project which would include an interactive AI that can give answers / charts etc. based on user prompts from the provided events. But we scraped that project and started something else entirely. Glad to see this project - would definitely try it out when you have the self hosting option ready.

Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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post #38

What does "privacy first" mean in this case? My understanding is the plausible, unlike GA, doesn't use cookies. Does that mean web analytics are IP-only? [edit: Or does it mean no third party sees your analytics?]

Privacy means very different things to different people.

On basic level it is just that your data is not used/sold beyond basic, statistical analysis of visitors. That's it. Cookie can be "private" in this context, if they are SameSite and httpOnly with short life.

In terms of law, Privacy is very different thing. In case of GDPR in the EU it is set of rules and laws that you have to comply with.

Just because you don't use cookies or host in EU, doesn't mean you are automatically GDPR compliant.

We built Wide Angle Analytics, and we invested in strict compliance. We hired experienced DPO (one of requeirements), host in EU on EU cloud, not just EU located servers. We document every data processing activity and do not engage in any international data transfer ( in context of GDPR). Plus much more.

Cookieless does not mean privacy. There is lot of snake oil out there.

Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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post #42

A few months back we were also planning to start a similar project which would include an interactive AI that can give answers / charts etc. based on user prompts from the provided events. But we scraped that project and started something else entirely. Glad to see this project - would definitely try it out when you have the self hosting option ready.

I have thought about adding AI. But don’t want to add it just for the sake of it.

Hoping to find good use cases.

Will make a big update when it’s easier to self-host.

Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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post #35

The group-level / account-level stuff is pretty big for B2B SaaS companies to be able to consider using it. And it's tucked away on one of Mixpanel's higher price plans.

Have missed this feature. Would love to hear more and how I could implement this feature.

Is it a flag/field in the SDK that tells you I’m from a specific company or is it some black magic?

Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

#46
This looks great! As an engineer who has used Mixpanel at multiple companies it has always annoyed me that what you get for what you pay seems quite poor, so I'm very happy to see some alternatives.

I'm also happy to note that you are from (the wrong part of ;)) Sweden.

Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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post #35

The group-level / account-level stuff is pretty big for B2B SaaS companies to be able to consider using it. And it's tucked away on one of Mixpanel's higher price plans.

Have missed this feature. Would love to hear more and how I could implement this feature. Is it a flag/field in the SDK that tells you I’m from a specific company or is it some black magic?

It lets you associate users to companies so you can look at analytics from a user or company perspective.

ie, how many individuals are using this feature or what’s the average usage of this feature for a company.

Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Won't this be a problem as soon as a website reaches, say, 600 RPS? Which is not much.

I have time to grow. Don’t think I’ll hit this level just yet.

This is the correct answer! any early project needs to make big trade-offs and premature optimisation has killed many projects. You'll never please everyone (especially on HN) but you're not making it for everyone

Re: Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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post #39

What's the advantage of using this over PostHog?

Posthog is great and I love it.

But as others have mentioned. It’s way too complex and advanced for most use cases and that’s where we differ.

Heard that posthog also is very resource heavy when self-hosting it.

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