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Ask HN: Recommendations for mobile analytics product at scale?

#1
We're now at scale and looking for a mobile analytics product that allows us to take a look at our funnels and user retention.

We have the following requirements: -We need to track about 200MM-400MM events/month. -Realtime retroactive funnels. I want to be able to make a query and get an answer back in less than 60 seconds. I also want to be able to add arbitrary key value pairs to each event and filter steps in the funnel based on the presence of a particular value. -We need to be able to apply filters on users to the funnel and retention graphs that we look at. We'd like to filter on standard things, such as country or device, as well as define our own user properties (eg by ad campaign or A/B test group).

Up to this point, we use Flurry and Apsalar, although we've found both to be inaccurate compared to numbers that we track internally. They're also annoying tools to use. We're happy to pay a few thousand dollars a month for this. Mixpanel (who offers the closest to what we want)/Kontagent cost an order of magnitude too much. I've also looked at Localytics, but after talking to a few current users of the platform, it seems rather simplistic and they don't have any advanced segmentation on the funnels.

Do you guys know of anything that fits the bill? We'd rather not have to think about building it in house.

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#4
Would using Google Analytics work? I know it's not as easy as Mixpanel but they have a lot of tools. They also have an Objective C SDK.

There's a YC company called Heap Analytics that offers pricing based on monthly unique users. I've never used it but it's the only other thing I can think of.

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#7
Countly is an open source, realtime mobile analytics solution with an enterprise plan. Funnels and segmentation are currently being developed and planned to get ready for mainstream due 1-2 months (advanced segmentations being quite earlier). Check http://count.ly for a list of features and benefits.

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post #5

We have a platform that is similar to what you need, but geared to the web. The advantage is adapting to your use case would not be a huge issue and I've been intending to go that direction anyway. Hit me up if you would like, my email is in my profile.

Interesting- do you guys have a mobile SDK already? We'd need both iOS and Android.

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Countly is an open source, realtime mobile analytics solution with an enterprise plan. Funnels and segmentation are currently being developed and planned to get ready for mainstream due 1-2 months (advanced segmentations being quite earlier). Check http://count.ly for a list of features and benefits.

Looks interesting, thanks! Questions: for funnels- are you guys planning to make it so I can query on historical data and get the results right away? Flurry is pretty annoying- you have to set up the funnel, and you only get results from that point forward, it doesn't apply to data you've collected in the past.

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#10

What information are you looking for? Geographic location, age, gender, education?

Ideally the SDK would auto-pull from the phone anything it could, such as device type, OS, language/locale settings. You wouldn't be able to know actual demographic information on the person, of course [ :) or at least I don't know of any APIs that exist for that ].
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