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Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
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Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#42Congratulations on the launch. We were looking for this very solution. Writing queries and mapping them downstream is pretty handy. I also noticed that you support Rudderstack(yet another great tool), and we can send events via their http connector. Looking forward to using this tool. Do you plan on adding Clickhouse as source anytime soon?
Interesting tool indeed. You made a good point about RudderStack and synergies there. I'm curious to see how hightouch is going to diffentiate from something like RudderStack, which has a boatload of reverse ETL functionality of its own. I mean event stream data and moving data from your warehouse back out to tools is pretty their mantra
Then you could say the same thing about Hightouch and Segment. Segment == Rudderstack for all intensive purposes.
The way it's differentiated is that Rudderstack does event collection + forwarding + some flavor of reverse ETL. In order to be successful with them you'd need to replace your whole stack and do event collection with them. A lot of companies already have an existing stack and they want to buy a best-in-class Reverse ETL player (something that takes 5 min to set up) and that's where we come in!
Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#43Interested to try this out one day!
My Data Engineering team has spent weeks building API integrations this year, so this would be valuable.
Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#44This looks super cool. Love the git integration.
Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#45This looks super cool. Love the git integration.
Thanks! Here's some more info on the git integration if you're curious: https://hightouch.io/blog/announcing-git-sync-back-your-sync...
Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#46Reverse ETL is so critical as tools proliferate. How do you deal with visualisation of data in the environments that they are consumed in? Or is that upto the respective environment?
Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting tool indeed. You made a good point about RudderStack and synergies there. I'm curious to see how hightouch is going to diffentiate from something like RudderStack, which has a boatload of reverse ETL functionality of its own. I mean event stream data and moving data from your warehouse back out to tools is pretty their mantra
Then you could say the same thing about Hightouch and Segment. Segment == Rudderstack for all intensive purposes. The way it's differentiated is that Rudderstack does event collection + forwarding + some flavor of reverse ETL. In order to be successful with them you'd need to replace your whole stack and do event collection with them. A lot of companies already have an existing stack and they want to buy a best-in-cl…
RudderStack founder here.
We tend to believe we have a pretty good reverse-ETL product too which can be used standalone without event collection. Best is class is a moving target anyway and upto customers to judge :)
However, I do agree on the point around focus. Our positioning, go-to-market, pricing, use cases etc are centered around building the end to end customer data infrastructure. There are folks who already have pieces of the stack or don't need a full CDI (e.g. non PLG B2B companies) and only need reverse-ETL.
The market is enormous so I believe we both will do great. Congrats on the launch.
Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#48Congrats on the launch! Hightouch looks great and this need is real. Things seem to be going well, so I don't think I'm taking too much away by mentioning that we have been been working on Grouparoo, an open source alternative that solves similar pain points. A few differences: git developer workflow focused (branches, CI, PRs, etc), ability to self host, segmentation in destinations (tagging people in mailchimp base…
Congrats Tejas and team on the launch. Great to see your progress and broad innovation in this space (Census/Hightouch/Grouparoo/us@RudderStack). It's a huge market and we can all help push each other.
Thanks, Soumya! I agree. Congrats on all your continued success at RudderStack as well.
Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then you could say the same thing about Hightouch and Segment. Segment == Rudderstack for all intensive purposes. The way it's differentiated is that Rudderstack does event collection + forwarding + some flavor of reverse ETL. In order to be successful with them you'd need to replace your whole stack and do event collection with them. A lot of companies already have an existing stack and they want to buy a best-in-cl…
RudderStack founder here. We tend to believe we have a pretty good reverse-ETL product too which can be used standalone without event collection. Best is class is a moving target anyway and upto customers to judge :) However, I do agree on the point around focus. Our positioning, go-to-market, pricing, use cases etc are centered around building the end to end customer data infrastructure. There are folks who already…
Agree RE: focus. Rudderstack is a bundle and there is a place for that.
Hightouch is 100% focused on activating data from the warehouse. Everything we build is Reverse ETL or built on top of Reverse ETL - that means we spend every waking minute thinking about progressing the Reverse ETL space, just like Fivetran are laser-focused on SaaS data ingest or Snowplow on behavioral/event data ingest (other parts of the Rudderstack bundle)
We're a big fan of RudderStack's drive. As an ex-Segmenter, I can say that competing with that team is not easy. Best of luck! We will continue watching from the sidelines :)
Re: Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
RudderStack founder here. We tend to believe we have a pretty good reverse-ETL product too which can be used standalone without event collection. Best is class is a moving target anyway and upto customers to judge :) However, I do agree on the point around focus. Our positioning, go-to-market, pricing, use cases etc are centered around building the end to end customer data infrastructure. There are folks who already…
Agree RE: focus. Rudderstack is a bundle and there is a place for that. Hightouch is 100% focused on activating data from the warehouse. Everything we build is Reverse ETL or built on top of Reverse ETL - that means we spend every waking minute thinking about progressing the Reverse ETL space, just like Fivetran are laser-focused on SaaS data ingest or Snowplow on behavioral/event data ingest (other parts of the Rudd…
Thanks Tejas for your kind words :) We too have nothing short of enormous respect for what you guys have achieved. Looking forward to you and team to push innovation in this space forward.