Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
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Re: Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
#2Yes! I've been doing this for awhile. If you feed the data into a Bayesian classifier, you can figure out what kind of user you're dealing with, too.
Re: Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
#3Looks very cool––what kind of performance hit is introduced by logging every event?
Re: Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
#4Looks very cool––what kind of performance hit is introduced by logging every event?
It's essentially imperceptible. We measured it, and our client-side script introduces a 0.1% CPU overhead.
Re: Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
#5This seems really interesting, but starting at 250 users per month seems high. I notice the price/active user starts at a penny and falls 60% as the users climb to over 500,000.
Would it be possible to create a price option for even smaller companies, demo sites, etc, at a higher rate?
Say, what if the owner of a small blog wanted to use this to do really fine grained analysis of users actions but they average 250 hits a day?
Re: Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
#6I'm positive there is a market for it. Unfortunately "capturing everything" has an unsolvable problem beyond capture performance, storage cost and query performance (which are hard but solvable) - it let's you find the outcome you were looking for all along.
Re: Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
#7This seems really interesting, but starting at 250 users per month seems high. I notice the price/active user starts at a penny and falls 60% as the users climb to over 500,000. Would it be possible to create a price option for even smaller companies, demo sites, etc, at a higher rate? Say, what if the owner of a small blog wanted to use this to do really fine grained analysis of users actions but they average 250 hi…
Our bottom tier (which includes a 1 month free trial) lets you track 2,500 users/month.
That said, pricing is really hard to get right. There's basically zero chance we nailed it on the first try.
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#9Great job! I think other analytics platforms will start to follow suit as more people start to realise that it's cheap enough to just mercilessly capture every user event. The UI looks beautiful and seems very intuitive too.
Re: Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
#10The demo page (https://heapanalytics.com/dashboard/demo) fails in IE8.
Is it just me or IE8 is just not considered by web startups anymore ? Sorry to deviate a little but every time I try to look at a "Show HN" in IE8 (work computer), it fails for about 85% of the time. I could understand that some startups heavily depend on latest browsers but what about others ?