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What happens if I'm a smallish site and suddenly get slashdotted / DDoSed? Will I be charged thousand dollars? Is there a way to cap monthly costs?
With the current model, your charges would spike. Which is bad. But we plan to offer caps and the option to auto-sample if you exceed your tier.
Welcome to the blacklist. I, for one, very much object to all my clicks and "activity" on a page being captured and streamed down some black hole for god knows what purposes. Not to worry though - you are in a good company with all other analytics services out there. The only difference is that you are far more open (and proud?) about how obscenely intrusive your service is, so you get an honorary 2nd spot, right aft…
On the other hand, the dynamic nature of the data makes me inclined to think that they're using MongoDB or something similar. In the past I've had to create similar systems but we denormalized the data coming in based on pre-defined Group By settings.
I'd love to learn more about the stack and database used for HeapAnalytics and any other similar services.
This seems like a common anti-pattern.
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Do you feel there's scope for pricing coming down a lot? I'm in a similar boat to TylerE: around a million monthly uniques, but in publishing, so there's really no way to justify $4k/month for Analytics when stuff like Google's already exists. 10% of that might be justifiable, but even then it's not a no-brainer.
Yea, precisely. I'd say for us we could maybe to like, $100/month. Also - how does it work for multiple sites? We actually have 4 separate sites for separate towns.
Why do a HN launch with "request an invite"? This seems like a common anti-pattern.
Why do a HN launch with "request an invite"? This seems like a common anti-pattern.
We tried to include as much tangible product as is possible with an invite-only product.
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I don't mean this to sound as snarky or mean as it probably will. I'm truly interested in your answer. Why should you have the choice to object? What is obscenely intrusive about tracking how you use an application you (may or may not) pay for? I don't see why anyone would have any reasonable expectation of privacy when they're using a service online. Note I am only referring to analytics contained on a single domain…
> Why should you have the choice to object? What? Are you asking me to justify having an option of being able to object? That's a bit too meta, with today being Friday and all.
Does that bother you too? (A service recording your usage of it)
Why is measuring on the client-side different from measuring on the server-side?
Would this still be able to capture those events? And if so, how?
Why do a HN launch with "request an invite"? This seems like a common anti-pattern.