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

#61
This is great.

Analytics space has many players in all shapes and sizes.

Mixpanel, Amplitude, Google analytics, simpleanalytics, Posthog, usefathom, plausible.

If you include UI tracking then pendo.io, Fullstory, LogRocket.

Many of them VC funded horses.

As an ex-Mixpaneler and Mixpanel customer now, I wish Mixpanel wasn’t this expensive for a few 1000 users. But like any company in an economic market, they’ll charge for what customers will bear.

Competition is wonderful. May the force be with you.

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

#62
post #61

This is great. Analytics space has many players in all shapes and sizes. Mixpanel, Amplitude, Google analytics, simpleanalytics, Posthog, usefathom, plausible. If you include UI tracking then pendo.io, Fullstory, LogRocket. Many of them VC funded horses. As an ex-Mixpaneler and Mixpanel customer now, I wish Mixpanel wasn’t this expensive for a few 1000 users. But like any company in an economic market, they’ll charge…

Im a little fart in space for mixpanel but maybe, just maybe I can push their prices a bit!

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

#63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have time to grow. Don’t think I’ll hit this level just yet.

As someone using clickhouse, for similar event ingestion stuff - I’d lean towards implementing it sooner rather than later. It’s not too hard, and it can surprising _how much more_ Clickhouse likes bulk queries.

Sure thing! Will look into it more during the coming weeks. Feels like I have the most of the dashboard complete now.

But I really want to start giving the native app some love as well

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

#64

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Have missed this feature. Would love to hear more and how I could implement this feature. Is it a flag/field in the SDK that tells you I’m from a specific company or is it some black magic?

They usually use something akin to Segments “group” event type, which associated a user id with (depending on the platform) one or more “group ids”. These could correlate to company/team/region/etc. Having implemented something similar-ish recently, we went the route of requiring callers to ”do the work” of telling us which group the user belongs to. Figuring it out is unnecessarily difficult and prone to issues.

I like this approach a lot. Only downside is that you cannot dynamically change groups and what not in a later stage.

But if each events were associated directly to a group (by the caller) this would be quite easy to implement.

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

#65
That's really interesting! I've been using and developing Posthog-LLM for tracking LLM text events, and I'm excited to try this tool. A lightweight Posthog sounds great. The older Posthog versions were better for self-hosting because they were lighter, but the latest version is a bit too heavy.

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

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post #65

That's really interesting! I've been using and developing Posthog-LLM for tracking LLM text events, and I'm excited to try this tool. A lightweight Posthog sounds great. The older Posthog versions were better for self-hosting because they were lighter, but the latest version is a bit too heavy.

I better start working on self-hosting guide/script :D

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

#67
I’m looking for a tool like this. Previously used mixpanel (under free startup package), but dropped it after that expired because it was going to be $x,000 per month. (Tho I believe they significantly altered their pricing shortly after)

But either way, we’d never spent enough time setting it up, and this weren’t getting a huge amount of value from it.

We also use plausible, for web facing. But we need something more detailed for analytics within our product.

I like the sound of this. But from using the demo dashboard I didn’t see the value I’d get from it.

It was clear if I could track a user (or segment of users) journeys.

Or see the journey of all users who completed a specific event.

Can I create funnels?

Can I measure performance over time easily?

Can I put events into the timeline? (feature releases)

Implementing a tool like this is a big commitment, so I’d need to be more convinced it’s the right tool for our needs before I took the plunge. I’d also start with the hosted solution, but I’d choose it because we could self host in the future if we felt necessary. An escape hatch.

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

#68

I’m looking for a tool like this. Previously used mixpanel (under free startup package), but dropped it after that expired because it was going to be $x,000 per month. (Tho I believe they significantly altered their pricing shortly after) But either way, we’d never spent enough time setting it up, and this weren’t getting a huge amount of value from it. We also use plausible, for web facing. But we need something mor…

I hear you! The "demo" is basically just a demo for the shareable overview (plausible like screen).

Here you have some screenshots what you can do: https://imgur.com/a/hxUPsvk

Features: - Create funnels, linear, bar, histogram, map, pie, area charts based on your events (similar to mixpanel reports) - List of all events (filter by any data point you send) - List of all your users (go into a specific users to see what they did) - Retention (if you use this you need to provide a user id) - Realtime dashboard

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

#70
I've considered self-hosting plausible but ultimately decided to pay for subscription instead, because I think self-hosting would cause more in terms of VPS hosting.

The minimum requirements (4GB RAM) are too high because of the need to run two databases:

https://github.com/plausible/community-edition/blob/v2.0.0/d...

4GB RAM costs $24/month on DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets

In comparison Plausible lowest tier is only $9/month.

I think this project is not so different in terms of minimum spec.

Would love to hear how others deal with the cost of self-hosting. Does it get cheaper as you self-host more apps? Do you pool with friends?

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