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

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Post by lindesvard »

michaelmior wrote: post #21
lindesvard wrote: post #13

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When* Before beta is over it’ll be easily self-hosted. But since it free now there is no need for self-hosting. Will make it easy to export/import your events between instances

> since it free now there is no need for self-hosting. It's awesome that you're offering this for free for now, but I don't think that means there's no need to self-host. There are many reasons people might not want to hand over data to a third party.

True, I guess I need to prioritize this a bit

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

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Post by lindesvard »

slig wrote: post #23
lindesvard wrote: post #6

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So you can start by using the beta if you want to try it. I dont think I'll take any money until after summer (I have no rush here) Currently the pricing looks like this: No tiers, you get everything. You only pay for events. So everything except events are unlimited. 5000 events - free 10,000 - $5 100,000 - $10 200,000 - $20 500,000 - $40 1,000,000 - $60 2,000,000 - $80 5,000,000 - $120 10,000,000 - $150 I hope to p…

I pay around $180/m for Clicky for 800k events per day. Looking forward trying your service and eventually try to self host it. Thanks!

800k a day? That’s a lot of events. Need to start optimizing things then

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

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Post by Aeolun »

klaussilveira wrote: post #20
lindesvard wrote: post #12

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Correct! Currently no batching but no need to make things complicated for now. Can extend the current redis queue to batch request or clickhouse batch engine. Looking forward to have these problems hehe. Please DM if you want to chat about best approach!

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

Dunno, that’s already a fairly big website. The one I was working on in the past with 15k customers did around 15RPS. The large enterprise system I work on with 3k users does slightly less than that. That covers an awfully large amount of use cases already, and then you can get 30x more?

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

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Post by Aeolun »

michaelmior wrote: post #21
lindesvard wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When* Before beta is over it’ll be easily self-hosted. But since it free now there is no need for self-hosting. Will make it easy to export/import your events between instances

> since it free now there is no need for self-hosting. It's awesome that you're offering this for free for now, but I don't think that means there's no need to self-host. There are many reasons people might not want to hand over data to a third party.

Jup, my main use case for these things is bypassing all the approvals necessary to send stuff to a third party.

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Post by pc86 »

lindesvard wrote: post #8
metadat wrote: post #7

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If the salt changes daily, how is. It possible to know how many users returned after > 24 hrs? Edit: @lindesvard- Got it, thanks for clarifying!

You'll never know any returning users after salt changes. This is the hole point with privacy first. But you have options tho. Compared to other tools that is privacy first, you can actually pass your own user id. You can get this ID from where ever you want (db, cookie, localStorage. Its up to you whom implement it) But I want to have a middle ground where privacy is important but you have the options to decide what…

So maybe an obvious question but just to be clear, if you pass your own user ID you can track that particular user's flow across multiple sessions/days/etc?

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

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Post by Brajeshwar »

afro88 wrote: post #39

What's the advantage of using this over PostHog?

Not OP but here are my personal thoughts. I love PostHog (and using in almost all of our web assets/products) but it is overkill for most usage, especially small and personal projects/websites/apps.

I'd gladly settle for something simpler like Plausible or this one, perhaps, start with their hosted SaaS version and if need to, we can host it ourselves.

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