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Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics

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Post by matm »

krammer wrote: post #38
suhail wrote: post #5

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…

For our startup the initial development scenario was: "add an event at everything the user does, lets think about what cares and what doesn't later". And for this mixpanel's "people" plans are perfect (until you have 25K users). But letting me 100M events is a no-brainer too (it's 4000 events/profile-month).

Relevant: Heap automatically takes this "capture every event" approach for you. Would be curious to get your thoughts: https://heapanalytics.com.

(I'm a founder at Heap.)

Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics

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Post by becomevocal »

ugh123 wrote: post #15
suhail wrote: post #5

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…

Theres not much Mixpanel can compete with anymore. You're too expensive for more than the most simple, low traffic setups and your support is terrible. I've emailed you several times after dealing with your support team and never heard back. I really don't see the point anymore.

I'm not sure why you experienced that but on my end I've received great support from the Mixpanel team. In fact I remember one case in particular where we were aliasing our users wrong and a team member there got on a call at 1am to resolve it.

Mixpanel is one of the few pieces of software I've been excited to pay for. Hate to see them get a bad rap.

It seems like there may be certain start-ups being targeted that aren't a perfect fit for the pricing structure. If you are B2B SaaS the price is well worth it.

Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics

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Post by aleem »

suhail wrote: post #5

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…

I never tried MixPanel due to the pricing issues due to our high traffic destination.

My startup builds products for news publications and we are quite happy with GA and using GA APIs to show the same on our dashboards. There are a couple of Bootstrap themes that do a really good job of displaying the same GA data in a dumbed-down, visually appealing layout. There are also some pretty good charting libraries which makes it easy to talk plot GA data on dashboards.

I may be wrong but it seems MixPanel is targeted toward startups who value conversions very strongly and are already spending boatloads on advertising, affiliates, etc.

Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics

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Post by srcmap »

aleem wrote: post #43
suhail wrote: post #5

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…

I never tried MixPanel due to the pricing issues due to our high traffic destination. My startup builds products for news publications and we are quite happy with GA and using GA APIs to show the same on our dashboards. There are a couple of Bootstrap themes that do a really good job of displaying the same GA data in a dumbed-down, visually appealing layout. There are also some pretty good charting libraries which ma…

I found GA is very good at the beginning also. Latter, I found that I need ip addresses info and GA is not giving that to me. I end up adding api to my backend app to log interesting backend events into the my backend json db.

I found that Per IP address analystic give me much deeper understanding of events flow. Geoip lookup also allows for me to gain inside to correlate engaged user level to the type of contents to organization name/type.

Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics

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Post by blumkvist »

alooPotato wrote: post #17
michokest wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

We effectively went through the same thing - moved off of mixpanel when it got too expensive. We instead started throwing all of our events into Google big query. You can steam events directly into a table or proxy then through your server to add more metadata. You can even use mixpanels great open source client libraries and point them at your servers. Initially I was worried that we would miss mixpanels built in an…

Thanks for sharing! I'm not a developer, but an analyst. I know SQL fairly well and some javascript, but no coding experience apart from writing code for google analytics. How easy/cheap would it be to build a custom analytics solution like that? It's probably beyond my personal skills, but do you think it's possible for someone with my skillset to find a developer and supervise them? Can you point me to some resources or stories of it being done?

Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics

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Post by alooPotato »

blumkvist wrote: post #46
alooPotato wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We effectively went through the same thing - moved off of mixpanel when it got too expensive. We instead started throwing all of our events into Google big query. You can steam events directly into a table or proxy then through your server to add more metadata. You can even use mixpanels great open source client libraries and point them at your servers. Initially I was worried that we would miss mixpanels built in an…

Thanks for sharing! I'm not a developer, but an analyst. I know SQL fairly well and some javascript, but no coding experience apart from writing code for google analytics. How easy/cheap would it be to build a custom analytics solution like that? It's probably beyond my personal skills, but do you think it's possible for someone with my skillset to find a developer and supervise them? Can you point me to some resourc…

Sorry I forgot to qualify my comment in that I think its a great solution for startups who are comfortable with SQL and a little bit of coding to glue a system together.

For non technical people, Mixpanel def seems like the best product.

Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics

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Post by alexatkeplar »

blumkvist wrote: post #46
alooPotato wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We effectively went through the same thing - moved off of mixpanel when it got too expensive. We instead started throwing all of our events into Google big query. You can steam events directly into a table or proxy then through your server to add more metadata. You can even use mixpanels great open source client libraries and point them at your servers. Initially I was worried that we would miss mixpanels built in an…

Thanks for sharing! I'm not a developer, but an analyst. I know SQL fairly well and some javascript, but no coding experience apart from writing code for google analytics. How easy/cheap would it be to build a custom analytics solution like that? It's probably beyond my personal skills, but do you think it's possible for someone with my skillset to find a developer and supervise them? Can you point me to some resourc…

We recently launched mobile SDKs for iOS and Android at Snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow), so that's probably the easier route to go than a full-blown custom build :-)

Re: Amazon Mobile Analytics

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Post by blumkvist »

alexatkeplar wrote: post #48
blumkvist wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing! I'm not a developer, but an analyst. I know SQL fairly well and some javascript, but no coding experience apart from writing code for google analytics. How easy/cheap would it be to build a custom analytics solution like that? It's probably beyond my personal skills, but do you think it's possible for someone with my skillset to find a developer and supervise them? Can you point me to some resourc…

We recently launched mobile SDKs for iOS and Android at Snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ), so that's probably the easier route to go than a full-blown custom build :-)

Yeah seems good and I will check it in depth. It seems not provided out of the box, but I assume I can use MS SQL/HDInsight as a backend, instead of Redshift? Maybe you should consider including Azure as an infrastructure partner. I'm a consultant in the non-valley space (rest of the world). Lots of folks like me are looking for what you've developed. Most are pretty big MS fanboys. Just saying :)
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