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

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Do you have a way to automatically prune old data? I ran into the problem with posthog where the old data just overflowed my db and made it inoperable and they had no way to prune it.

Hmm seems odd? Currently I have none but will probably add a TTL to clickhouse on 5 years.

And if you really need to prune data you could just use good ol SQL?

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

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REALLY looking forward to trying this. Mixpanel has the most obscure pricing model of any SAAS i've ever tried to integrate with... When we 'upgraded' from their free tier to a paid tier we were DOWNGRADED from 20M events a month to 10K events a month. Does that make any sense??? They talk about 'transparent and easy to understand pricing', but immediately after I upgraded to a paid plan we were downgraded from 20M e…

The pricing modal is a black hole sadly... I hope you will give openpanel a shot

Building a helm chart right now to see if I can get it self-hosted in our cluster... :D

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

#93

This is still not very affordable for my use case. My small network of sites does around 400.000 pageviews per day. $120 per month is pretty steep for something I look at only a couple of times per month. Ever since GA4 and the whole cookie banner thing I'm looking for something that is GDPR compliant, has basic functionality and is cheap. But every time I look it comes down to self hosting. Plausible relies on Click…

Google is free since they sell your data.

Clickhouse is expensive, compute on scale is expensive, development is expensive etc. Sounds like your best bet is to do self-hosting

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

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post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The pricing modal is a black hole sadly... I hope you will give openpanel a shot

Building a helm chart right now to see if I can get it self-hosted in our cluster... :D

Ping me on twitter if you need assistans! https://x.com/CarlLindesvard

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

#95

Do you have a way to automatically prune old data? I ran into the problem with posthog where the old data just overflowed my db and made it inoperable and they had no way to prune it.

For my platform, I created some cron-jobs that run an SQL that deletes data older than X months.

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

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post #42

A few months back we were also planning to start a similar project which would include an interactive AI that can give answers / charts etc. based on user prompts from the provided events. But we scraped that project and started something else entirely. Glad to see this project - would definitely try it out when you have the self hosting option ready.

Something like this? https://docs.uxwizz.com/guides/ask-ai

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

#97

This is still not very affordable for my use case. My small network of sites does around 400.000 pageviews per day. $120 per month is pretty steep for something I look at only a couple of times per month. Ever since GA4 and the whole cookie banner thing I'm looking for something that is GDPR compliant, has basic functionality and is cheap. But every time I look it comes down to self hosting. Plausible relies on Click…

> by doing data sampling like Google Analytics did?

You can always conditionally include the tracker. So, you can include it with a 10% chance, then you will still get stats, but sampled.

Doing this, you might miss some important events/sessions though.

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

#99
Congrats on the release, I'm really impressed with OpenPanel so far!

I have also been building a similar product for a long time (UXWizz), focused more on self-hosting, quantitative data and targeted at low to medium trafficked websites, but it is a paid product.

How do you think monetization will pan out in the long-term with a free self-hosted option? I know PostHog also had a free self-hosted version, but since the self-hosted version competes directly with their main business model, they had to stop support for it.

I also considered open-sourcing mine, but decided to keep it self-hosted only and paid. I feel like if I sell a hosted version, then my business goals won't be aligned with the goal of making the self-hosted version as good as it can be, without feature locks.

I hope you can maintain this awesome pace and improve your product for many years to come!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

That's quite a good deal for 24M events per month, especially if they have a long retention time (2-3 years).
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