Congrats! That this comes 3 years post-cycle shows good tenacity on the part of the team.
Segment (YC S11) Raises $15 Million Series A
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#32Congrats guys! We at Amplitude are very lucky you guys exist.
For quite a while, a majority of our new inbounds mentioned that they first saw Amplitude through the list of tools at Segment. A lot of companies see Segment as a recommendation platform- so they’ll go to them to get a list of vendors. It's definitely huge for us that you guys are around.
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#33Congrats Peter! I've been using segment.io with many projects and clients since 2012, and I'm superhappy. Peter also helped me alot. My only concerns are: 1. That they will continue to raise prices like many other in the SaaS-space, without grandfathering excisting user/customers. 2. That they will keep limiting certain integrations to their premium plans. This prevents me from integrating with them for new "pet"-pro…
Thanks Andreas!
1. Yep we've grandfathered all the old customers as we've updated pricing, they keep their old pricing.
2. We're thinking about ways to handle this, and may have some updates soon. There's actually a low API call threshold (5k api calls I believe) where we just won't bother you about payment no matter what integrations you're using.
Re: Segment (YC S11) Raises $15 Million Series A
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outside of the tech field everything but a .com is viewed negatively. When I worked for clients they used to really push hard for a .com. They'd rather have a 25 character .com than use anything else. My guess is that they only trust .com.
also .io will seem pretty dated in a few years. its okay for conferences and dev related things, but I wouldn't start a business on it now.
It depends. For new tech startups it's becoming the standard and until your market expands beyond tech I feel like .io is fine.
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#35Congrats guys! Brings continued and much needed attention to help app developers more easily operationalize their data and connect with partners.
The ecosystem of developer tools is expanding fast and guys like Segment (and us- mParticle) are helping lead the way for app developers to move faster and build better apps.
This is good for everyone!!!
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#36Congratulations Segment team! As I've said to multiple folks, working with Customer.io through Segment removes "Integration risk"... the risk of spending a bunch of time integrating and then hating the service.
I'm thrilled for your progress and excited for what your team does in the future!
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#37How is this service better than 100s of marketing companies out there ?
All you do is track people without their consent , steal data in un-ethical manner.
Anyone can raise millions these days. What a time !
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#38Congrats Peter! I've been using segment.io with many projects and clients since 2012, and I'm superhappy. Peter also helped me alot. My only concerns are: 1. That they will continue to raise prices like many other in the SaaS-space, without grandfathering excisting user/customers. 2. That they will keep limiting certain integrations to their premium plans. This prevents me from integrating with them for new "pet"-pro…
uh, i disagree. strongly.
if you are incorporating their product into commercial projects of your own, how in the world do you come to the conclusion that it should be free?
to segment: raise your prices according to the utility your product provides. make money. this kind of product is changing the way enterprise software is built and sold and viewed at large. i will gladly pay good money to a dozen small saas startups rather than oracle or microsoft or whoever. i've worked for the giants and it's a complete shit show. i know where that money goes and it's not pretty.
i LIKE paying for saas because it feels like i am engaging in an actual business transaction. i trust 'free' (as in gratis) solutions as far as i can throw them.
also, companies that under-charge are toxic elements in the marketplace - they push out healthy firms because they can subsidize the cost of operations and marketing with an unlimited budget of funny money. and when that solution your business is relying on goes out of business because they never had the inclination to make any money, that sucks.
try going to the market and asking about their freemium chicken.
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#39Congrats! We at CapLinked love your product.
Re: Segment (YC S11) Raises $15 Million Series A
#40Congrats Peter! I've been using segment.io with many projects and clients since 2012, and I'm superhappy. Peter also helped me alot. My only concerns are: 1. That they will continue to raise prices like many other in the SaaS-space, without grandfathering excisting user/customers. 2. That they will keep limiting certain integrations to their premium plans. This prevents me from integrating with them for new "pet"-pro…
uh, i disagree. strongly. if you are incorporating their product into commercial projects of your own, how in the world do you come to the conclusion that it should be free? to segment: raise your prices according to the utility your product provides. make money. this kind of product is changing the way enterprise software is built and sold and viewed at large. i will gladly pay good money to a dozen small saas start…
No need to ask, your local super market or big box store probably already has a freemium model -- samples (http://imgs.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/parenting/2010/08...)
I do, however, whole hardheartedly agree with you sentiment about relying upon free services or saas.