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Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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Re: Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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Post by dang »

tomnipotent wrote: post #59
vklmn wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have suggested event structure ( https://github.com/jitsucom/jitsu/blob/master/javascript-sdk... ). If you want to send data to destination, you should either follow suggested structure or write your own JavaScript mapping ( https://jitsu.com/blog/javascript-transform ). And we have DBT models too https://hub.getdbt.com/jitsucom/jitsu/latest/ !

Is that dbt project also doing the sessionization? I see this: jitsu_sessionization_trailing_window: 3 jitsu_session_inactivity_cutoff: 30 * 60 EDIT: No idea why valid reply from dev is marked dead, but thanks! Really, really cool that you're using dbt for this process.

(New accounts are subject to extra restrictions and sometimes software kills their posts. We review those and try to find and unkill all the good ones, though it takes time and we do miss a few. I've marked absorbb's account legit now so this won't happen again.)

Re: Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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Post by sherifnada »

vklmn wrote: post #68
kposehn wrote: post #61

Great product. I'm a frequent user of Segment from the early days and have been curious to see when an open-source competitor comes around that will match feature-for-feature. Thoughts: 1. You've got most major ads sources that I care about, but it seems that there is a higher bar to implementation. Segment lets me just plug in Google & FB ads and dump the entire shebang right into my data warehouse. A lot of marketi…

Thank you! 1. Thats exactly the reason we have native connectors for Facebook and Google Ads (we didn't use ones from Airbyte and Singer). Jitsu can pull any combination from FB/GAds — it's almost like SQL! Airbyte/Singer just can't do that. Later we're going to vet other connectors too and decide if we need to re-implement them 2. We have functions too! https://jitsu.com/blog/javascript-transform

Airbyte recently added support for custom GSQL & Facebook Marketing queries FYI ;)

Re: Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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Post by tailspin2019 »

vklmn wrote: post #70
tailspin2019 wrote: post #67

This looks really cool. I'm keen to try it. It looks like it might play well with my current logging system of choice, Seq [0]. Do you support inbound webhooks? I can see webhooks as a destination but not as a source? [0] https://datalust.co/seq

You can hack almost anything using inbound Event API ( https://jitsu.com/docs/sending-data/api ) and JavaScript transformations ( https://jitsu.com/blog/javascript-transform )

Ok cool.

As a bit of feedback, I highly suggest adding Webhooks as a source on your marketing site.

The first thing I did is navigate to the Sources page and searched for "webhook" which brought up no results.

I then searched your docs which only mention Webhooks in the context of being a destination rather than a source.

I realise now that you have quite a flexible ingestion API, but it took quite a while (and your confirmation above) to understand this!

The product looks awesome though! Good luck with the launch.

Re: Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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Post by vklmn »

public_void wrote: post #63

Hey congrats on the launch, clearly a lot of thought and effort went into this. I'm pretty new to this space, and maybe this is a dumb question but how does this differ from Mixpanel? Would I use this for something different?

Mixpanel will store the data for you and do visualization. Jitsu just help you to get you data to your data warehouse.

Downside: you'll need to build all visualization by yourself. Fortunately that's easy with tools such as Looker, Mode, Metabase etc

Upside: you can do with your data whatever you want - built any reports, join with other datasets etc. You not limited by reports MixPanel team build.

In reality, Jitsu and MixPanel could co-exist. Jitsu support s MixPanel as a destination (e.g. you send data to Jitsu ; Jitsu sends it to MixPanel and data warehouse).

Re: Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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Post by vklmn »

tailspin2019 wrote: post #74
vklmn wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can hack almost anything using inbound Event API ( https://jitsu.com/docs/sending-data/api ) and JavaScript transformations ( https://jitsu.com/blog/javascript-transform )

Ok cool. As a bit of feedback, I highly suggest adding Webhooks as a source on your marketing site. The first thing I did is navigate to the Sources page and searched for "webhook" which brought up no results. I then searched your docs which only mention Webhooks in the context of being a destination rather than a source. I realise now that you have quite a flexible ingestion API, but it took quite a while (and your…

Thanks for observation! We will add it. A fresh look to marketing materials is always appreciated!
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