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Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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This is a really cool product. Very impressive that you were able to build to many integrations with such a small team. Any advice on how you did that?

How many of these are real? I don't care how efficient you are as a team. I see 50+ integrations and one engineer on the team, on top of a complicated base product. Color me suspicious...

Not vaporware! All of our integrations listed are all real and can be used today.

Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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Any time I hear about a hot new analytics company, my first thought is always: how do I opt out? Freshpaint, how do I opt out of your data collection? Now, into the future, and also for any historical data that you might have collected about me.

We respect Do Not Track. If you have Do Not Track enabled, we won't collect any data from you. Unfortunately Do Not Track has a number of fundamental issues and I'm not aware of any better way to signal you want to opt out.

You really shouldn’t support DNT, it’s a useless “standard” that’s half-deprecated (Safari is removing support in 2020) and will potentially introduce significant bias into your customer’s data.

Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see nothing in the parent comment to imply a desire for gratuitous attention, nor self importance, nor a predilection for drama nor profanity. I just see someone who is tired of being tracked, and earnestly wants to know how to opt out.

Parent's HN profile indicates a 2009 registration date and whose Keybase reveals they're a software dev... I'd bet he knows how to block javascript and/or maintain a host files block list. But I'm being assumptive.

Forgive me if I misunderstood, but it sounds like you are simply questioning the word "earnestly" in my comment? And not implying agreement with the snark laden comment to which I was responding?

Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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Does the $300 a month pricing kick in at the first instance of 3,001 unique site visits in a given 30 day period?

No. We know that sometimes companies have random spikes that don’t correlate to sustained user growth. Higher pricing would kick in after the 2nd month of being above the volume limit.

Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent's HN profile indicates a 2009 registration date and whose Keybase reveals they're a software dev... I'd bet he knows how to block javascript and/or maintain a host files block list. But I'm being assumptive.

Forgive me if I misunderstood, but it sounds like you are simply questioning the word "earnestly" in my comment? And not implying agreement with the snark laden comment to which I was responding?

I just think that parent knows very well how to opt out of being tracked on his own.

Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many of these are real? I don't care how efficient you are as a team. I see 50+ integrations and one engineer on the team, on top of a complicated base product. Color me suspicious...

Not vaporware! All of our integrations listed are all real and can be used today.

Similar question to the grandparent - wondering how you go about maintaining a relatively large catalog of integrations with limited resources (I worked at an integration platform as a service company and remember maintenance of those to be the most resource intensive part of the product)

Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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Such a cool idea. I got a deep dive Postgres training from one of the their founders at my company and he was insanely knowledgeable. We currently are having these problems with Segment as well. I'm going to try and push to see if we can switch off of this from Segment. Congrats on starting a company that is solving a crazy pain point. I saw something saying that you need a minimal-loveable product nowadays and this is it!

Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forgive me if I misunderstood, but it sounds like you are simply questioning the word "earnestly" in my comment? And not implying agreement with the snark laden comment to which I was responding?

I just think that parent knows very well how to opt out of being tracked on his own.

> I just think that parent knows very well how to opt out of being tracked on his own.

How is maintaining a local block list opting out? It certainly doesn't seem to have legal force.

Re: Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just think that parent knows very well how to opt out of being tracked on his own.

> I just think that parent knows very well how to opt out of being tracked on his own. How is maintaining a local block list opting out? It certainly doesn't seem to have legal force.

How are they going to track him if none of their requests are ever loaded on his end?

Presumably we have different definitions of opting out. I was thinking more of the DIY type. It's certainly more reliable than to trust the people you don't trust not to track you because you tell them not to.

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