Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive! Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong): - Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of th…
As a second-time founder, I found Mixpanel to be the most expensive piece of SaaS we were using in our stack: at barely 30k users, it was already far more expensive than our whole hosting bill combined! Then I switched solutions for a while, looking for a good combination that'd give me Facebook attribution data plus user behavior. So far, I haven't found my ideas combination and in a way, Amazon doesn't change that.…
Amazon Mobile Analytics
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Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#32Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive! Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong): - Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of th…
every startup/mid-size company I worked/contracted for went through the same thing: Flurry sucks -> MixPanel too expensive -> Back to Flurry or GA.
Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#33Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive! Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong): - Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of th…
every startup/mid-size company I worked/contracted for went through the same thing: Flurry sucks -> MixPanel too expensive -> Back to Flurry or GA.
It's a hard technical problem but we feel like we've cracked it. Would love to hear about what you think look at what we're up to. Same sort of power as Mixpanel (more in some cases) as well as pricing that's more than 10x better: https://amplitude.com/pricing
Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#34Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive! Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong): - Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of th…
As a second-time founder, I found Mixpanel to be the most expensive piece of SaaS we were using in our stack: at barely 30k users, it was already far more expensive than our whole hosting bill combined! Then I switched solutions for a while, looking for a good combination that'd give me Facebook attribution data plus user behavior. So far, I haven't found my ideas combination and in a way, Amazon doesn't change that.…
Attribution is a tough problem in itself, most companies either do attribution really well or user behavior really well, but not both. The best analytics setups I've seen are ones where you have a separate attribution platform that feeds data to a user behavior platform.
Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#35Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive! Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong): - Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of th…
My history is that I built a real-time analytic engine for reporting project/program progress within large multi-nationals.
We had this idea of a maturity scale to guide a client along a path and to show how our features differentiated us from competitors:
Level 1) A client is recording progress against key milestones
Level 2) A client is trending data against those key milestones and comparing against past data
Level 3) A client is using drill-downs to understand how to affect the trends and deliver milestones sooner against specific metrics from L2
Level 4) A client is defining and reporting exceptions (+/- %/n from expected)
Level 5) A client is defining and using event-driven reports from those exceptions
All clients were at L2 within days of being set up on the system. Few clients ever reached L3, and none ever reached L4 or L5.
The problem was, our price tag was derived from the cost of storing, reporting on, and executing workflow around L4 and L5... we were expensive. This was fine from the perspective of the sales process because everyone wants to reach L5 and so buys into it. But in reality it turned out that once clients had mastered L2, the incremental value received from the weight of extra process required to make L3+ valueable to them just never added up.
We sold ourselves as the only company offering L5 reporting, and whilst clients were aspirational they only ever had the need for L2 or L3 reporting. We were giving them L2 reporting for the price of an L5 system.
Reading the comments here, and I personally have not used Mixpanel for a while now, I suspect that you guys are on the same path we were: Selling the complexity and the capability of a Formula 1 car, when most people just want a Volvo.
It's not even the first time I've seen this cycle repeat itself. Even when I think of companies like Vignette (15 years ago) I recall they sold caching + personalisation, the price tag being determined by the personalisation but it turned out almost every client only needed the caching. I can't think of many clients who stayed with them after that epiphany had been had. Good enough is frequently good enough.
Which reminds me of this: http://archive.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-0...
"When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine" - and if the orgs do not have data scientists to make sense of the advanced reports you're offering, then those orgs may likely choose to go for something cheaper and simpler that is giving them high returns at the level they're operating at.
Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#36Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#37Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive! Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong): - Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of th…
I have wanted to use Mixpanel for a while. But your product is very very expensive for a Startup. When we're trying to be frugal, there's no way we can justify spending $150 per month on collecting data on just 5,000 users (where 98% of them will be free-users). Your product becomes interesting to a Startup only if they won't have to worry about paying for analytics till they're really successful. That means many mil…
We collect millions of data points a month and save them on our servers. We do not use Mixpanel's SDK to collect these data points, but have written our own code for that. We save the raw data on our server, aggregate a bunch of similar events to 1 event and then push it to Mixpanel using their API. We heavily use event properties to send as few events to Mixpanel as possible.
This way we get most of the data into Mixpanel and can build funnels, etc. without any issue. There are some edge cases where we aggregated data is a limitation. But for those cases, we end up using the raw data that we store.
Not sure about your use case, but hope this helps.
Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#38Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive! Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong): - Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of th…
Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#39Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive! Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong): - Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of th…
What I'd like improved about Mixpanel:
* lower pricing (love the free tier, and until now I had just one client went beyond it and afforded to upgrade)
* be able to send notifications on events. I got sick of the excuse that "you've actually come across a really important characteristic of Mixpanel's data structure. People & Events both apply to users' distinct IDs, and sometimes appear to be working in tandem (e.g., people profile activity feeds), but the two sections of analytics actually live in two completely distinct data stores"
* do simple enhancements / bugfixes. I've sent suggestions to support, they said Yes, great, and nothing happened. Gave up. Examples: prefill notify me test email with current user's email address; fix properties in live view which are filled with custom links -- mixpanel will open those relative to report, instead of new window.
Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics
#40"1st party" analytics on Android is a bit weird at the moment. Since Google Analytics for Mobile requires Google Play Services - you can't use it in for installations on Amazon Fire devices. Of course there are third party services (Crashlytics, Mixpanel, etc), but it's just interesting to see Amazon and Google essentially forced to build their own versions of each other's services to compete on Android.
Are Android devices without GPS a large enough market for you to worry about? I didn't think that anyone was actually distributing a significant amount of apps through the Amazon market.