Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
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Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
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Re: Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
#2Congratulations! I'm totally impressed by the excellent company the Segment team is creating-- both the product and the support are first rate.
And special kudos to Peter, who provided direct hands on tech help for one of my clients during our crunch time.
Re: Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
#3I was implementing Segment this week, and I was excited to see that they do far more than customer analytics now. With a single installation of analytics.js, you can turn on tools like Sentry.io error tracking, HelloBar announcements, or secure user accounts with Castle.io. With a single integration, Segment is becoming an app store for websites.
Re: Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
#4Strong work! CloudFlare may be on their tail with Apps. https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/
Re: Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
#5I was implementing Segment this week, and I was excited to see that they do far more than customer analytics now. With a single installation of analytics.js, you can turn on tools like Sentry.io error tracking, HelloBar announcements, or secure user accounts with Castle.io. With a single integration, Segment is becoming an app store for websites.
As we learned in another post, having the name analytics.js can get you blocked by Ad block extensions. Expect analytics.js to not run in your apps.
Re: Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
#6congrats! Awesome company
Re: Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
#7I was implementing Segment this week, and I was excited to see that they do far more than customer analytics now. With a single installation of analytics.js, you can turn on tools like Sentry.io error tracking, HelloBar announcements, or secure user accounts with Castle.io. With a single integration, Segment is becoming an app store for websites.
As we learned in another post, having the name analytics.js can get you blocked by Ad block extensions. Expect analytics.js to not run in your apps.
To me this is the primary challenge of outsourcing your client side tracking -- you risk a wholesale block of your analytics if the Segment file gets blacklisted.
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#8I've been a Segment user, and advocate, from the beginning. It was highly recommended in the book Marketing for Developers.
One thing I'd like to see is a better free tier for developers starting new projects. Currently, you're limited to 1000 visitors per month.
Even indie projects can quickly run up monthly costs of $100+.
As a comparison, Mixpanel's free tier gives devs 20 million data points per month.
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#9We use Segment and it's incredibly useful to be able to turn on and off services, especially for reporting tools like mixpanel.
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#10I was implementing Segment this week, and I was excited to see that they do far more than customer analytics now. With a single installation of analytics.js, you can turn on tools like Sentry.io error tracking, HelloBar announcements, or secure user accounts with Castle.io. With a single integration, Segment is becoming an app store for websites.
As we learned in another post, having the name analytics.js can get you blocked by Ad block extensions. Expect analytics.js to not run in your apps.
this is definitely a deal breaker. other than server-side, are there any other work arounds? like roll your own domain proxy or something?