10M events a month, free
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10M events a month, free
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Re: 10M events a month, free
#2good, analytics has always been overpriced
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#3Hi all, founder of Amplitude here. We've always felt volume based pricing to be bad for analytics culture as it discourages tracking and so are taking as aggressive of a stance as we can here. Would love HN's feedback!
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#4Hi all, founder of Amplitude here. We've always felt volume based pricing to be bad for analytics culture as it discourages tracking and so are taking as aggressive of a stance as we can here. Would love HN's feedback!
Internal Server Error -- HN effect?
Re: 10M events a month, free
#5Hi all, founder of Amplitude here. We've always felt volume based pricing to be bad for analytics culture as it discourages tracking and so are taking as aggressive of a stance as we can here. Would love HN's feedback!
what is your backend stack ?
is redshift that cost effective ?
Re: 10M events a month, free
#6Thanks, I'll add this to a website tonight.
Re: 10M events a month, free
#7So, you moved from volume pricing to limiting features that we can use instead. heh.
Re: 10M events a month, free
#8Hi all, founder of Amplitude here. We've always felt volume based pricing to be bad for analytics culture as it discourages tracking and so are taking as aggressive of a stance as we can here. Would love HN's feedback!
what is your backend stack ? is redshift that cost effective ?
We offer Redshift and raw SQL access as an add-on to the analytics, it's not used to power the dashboards at all.
We've actually developed an in house backend from scratch that's gone through ~10 or so iterations. There are 3 main data stores:
1) We have a real-time in memory data store (similar to Redis) for recent data that aggregates data in various ways to display on the dashboard 2) We have a batch service backed by Amazon S3 that for data older than 24 hours that also aggregates data 3) We have a column store for more complex queries that can't be represented by the aggregated data
On top of all that we have a distributed query engine that access all the data stores and queries the appropriate ones in parallel at query time on the dashboards.
We'll have a blog post that has more details about our stack in the next week or so.
Re: 10M events a month, free
#9Hi all, founder of Amplitude here. We've always felt volume based pricing to be bad for analytics culture as it discourages tracking and so are taking as aggressive of a stance as we can here. Would love HN's feedback!
Internal Server Error -- HN effect?
Sorry, should be fixed now! Are you still seeing any issues?
Re: 10M events a month, free
#10So, you moved from volume pricing to limiting features that we can use instead. heh.
Ok I'll bite. Going from volume based pricing to feature based pricing is standard as an ecosystem matures and the underlying "resource" becomes commoditized. We offer both more features (Microscope- it's pretty cool, please check it out!) and more volume on our free plans than similar competitors so I hope that's compelling enough. Things like enterprise support and complex features are better put on the paid plans where larger organizations are happy to pay for them. Long term, the idea is you want to charge by value, not by cost.