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Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps

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Re: Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps

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For folks interested in mobile A/B testing, also see an open-source alternative by Clutch: https://github.com/clutchio

For what it's worth, using Clutch was one of the reasons we ended up making Apptimize. We ran into several bugs including one that was crashing the app we were working on and issues with its probability distribution. And the reporting was very simplistic.

Are you using Clutch now? If so, it'd be awesome if you could give us a try.

Re: Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps

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This looks interesting - although having never really considered using A/B testing on native apps before I did spend a few minutes looking around the site for examples of things to track. Maybe you could show an example project on the site showing what was changed and how that affected sales, etc.?

Re: Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps

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Why should anyone choose to use Apptimize over a free open-source alternative?

One of the biggest reasons is probably the reason behind using any software as a service rather than doing it yourself: you can concentrate on what you do best and not spend time managing things yourself. A couple of our users switched from using open source alternatives for that reason. We've put a lot of time into our infrastructure and decoupling things so we're very resilient against outages so you don't have to. We've also put a lot of time into making our library more robust and well tested than any alternatives we've seen to date.

Re: Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps

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Why should anyone choose to use Apptimize over a free open-source alternative?

I'm guessing because it's better than what they could integrate and build up with an open-source alternative in a short amount of time and thus more cost effective.
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