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Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Post by catton »

natrius wrote: post #20
ben wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This project has nontrivial pieces written in Squeak, Java, Ruby, and Javascript. The site has a dash of PHP.

Care to share the rationale behind those choices? Sounds interesting.

Sure, in brief: Smalltalk because we're most productive in it, Java for some code that particularly needed to be performant, and Ruby because it's better than the other two at interacting with the OS/tying all the pieces together. Obv JS for client-side whiz-bang.

Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Post by quizbiz »

I want an analytics system that I can give different style sheets to, it will apply them like in AB testing automatically, and show me the performance results.

Google analytics is good enough for collecting data but how do you help us implement the data?

Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Post by avibryant »

emmett wrote: post #23

It's taken more than 2 hours to get my results - I'd love to get an email saying "After looking at your data, it looks like it's going to take N more hours to finish the results".

Yeah, that would be good. The main bottleneck is in sucking all the data down from Google's API - for a site with as much traffic as justin.tv, that can indeed take hours. Once that's done the processing itself is relatively quick. But that's certainly something we could notice and let you know about. (Consider this your notification for now...)

Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Post by ckinnan »

lsb wrote: post #5

So here's the thing: I'm not going to give you my Google Analytics until you show me a compelling reason to. "We track Google Analytics" doesn't mean anything to me, an intrigued audience, yet skeptical of and resistant to just installing shit willy-nilly. Install it on the company blog or something.

GA is the keys to the kingdom for an online business...conversions, cash flow, ad sense, ad words...it is all there. You'll also need to offer a very clear and compelling value-add over Google Analytics for a serious person to even consider it. Heck, I don't even use 1/2 of the stuff GA gives me-- why do I need another service? You've got to answer that question.

You should also charge money for the service....I'd actually feel more comfortable about using it.

Also, the site lacks basic things like a location address, privacy policy, an obvious About Us page, and a TOS that protects my data.

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