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Re: 10M events a month, free

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Post by flashman »

CanioX wrote: post #68
mw67 wrote: post #65

Has anyone tried both Mixpanel and Amplitude? What are your recommendations? We are deciding which one to use for our startup. We are specifically interested in measuring: 1/ retention (as per Amplitude's video), 2/ usage patterns on mobile, and 3/ user flows. Thanks

This is a good blog post about how a customer switched from Mixpanel to Amplitude! https://medium.com/@illscience/mixpanel-vs-amplitude-6b3ba36...

As a data analyst this is really cool. As a user, it's terrifying to see how easily I can be tracked and quantified.

Re: 10M events a month, free

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Post by shostack »

alishiu wrote: post #69
shostack wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is actually shocking about not trusting the results. From the screenshot, they appear easy enough to verify (although some might require significant resources to implement/act on). Out of curiosity, what sorts of things was your initial attempt spitting out as insights? Also, as someone likely in your target audience (senior digital marketing/analytics guy), I have a suggestion for your site that I see lots of s…

Sorry I'm just seeing this now -- but we actually do have a full interactive demo of the product with pre-populated data, just like you suggested! There are CTAs to try the demo all over the website if you're using it on a desktop/laptop. Were you looking at the site on mobile? ( https://amplitude.com/ )

So that is exactly what I was hoping to see, but the email gate prevented me from moving forward. I entered "utc@ftc.gov" and it worked though. Nice product! Wish I could have seen the growth discovery beta in there. Definitely a different offering than Looker, but still has some nice stuff.

Back to my previous point...are you A/B testing the email gate on demo? You don't tell me how my email will be used, and my only assumption is that it is to add me to some drip mailing list I have no interest in, get your newsletter which I have no interest in, get contacted by a sales person which I have no interest in at that point, etc. All of that leads to me bouncing without seeing how awesome your product is.

I obviously recognize I might be in the minority hence my question about testing, and if the numbers make sense they make sense. Just my $.02 as someone that would likely be a highly-qualified lead and has seen a million sites/products like this.

Re: 10M events a month, free

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Post by gorkemcetin »

preetnation wrote: post #56
gorkemcetin wrote: post #44

You know what? 10 million is not cool, but 1 billion is. Nowadays many apps already can exceed this many API requests. If you go with an open source and self-hosted solution, then you can have a billion events per month for free, on a modest Linux server. Have a look at Piwik and Countly for mobile & web analytics that. Both companies have a lot more on-prem options for a fraction of price of analytics companies ask…

10M is cool and Amplitude is an amazing service. Pretty lame the way you're trying to hijack the thread.

Flurry has been doing that for ages, as well as Google Analytics. What's the point to announce it like it was never done before, and everybody is ready to "buy" it like Apple Watch? :)

Re: 10M events a month, free

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Post by gingerlime »

This looks neat and the video on the post highlights stuff that we've always wanted to do with mixpanel, but couldn't really manage that easily. Even things like copying a query and just changing one parameter is a drag with mixpanel.

All that being said, the free plan doesn't include all those neat features like cohort analysis, and the paid plan is way beyond our reach at ~$1k. We're currently paying around $300 to mixpanel, and that's already maxing out our small budget. We would love to have a paid plan with less events, but more functionality at a more affordable price point.

Re: 10M events a month, free

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Post by sskates »

gingerlime wrote: post #74

This looks neat and the video on the post highlights stuff that we've always wanted to do with mixpanel, but couldn't really manage that easily. Even things like copying a query and just changing one parameter is a drag with mixpanel. All that being said, the free plan doesn't include all those neat features like cohort analysis, and the paid plan is way beyond our reach at ~$1k. We're currently paying around $300 to…

You can get started on the free plan with more data and Microscope- which on it's own many teams have already have found to be a gamechanger. Message me at spenser@amplitude.com and we can figure out a way to make it compelling.

Re: 10M events a month, free

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Post by sskates »

shostack wrote: post #72
alishiu wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry I'm just seeing this now -- but we actually do have a full interactive demo of the product with pre-populated data, just like you suggested! There are CTAs to try the demo all over the website if you're using it on a desktop/laptop. Were you looking at the site on mobile? ( https://amplitude.com/ )

So that is exactly what I was hoping to see, but the email gate prevented me from moving forward. I entered "utc@ftc.gov" and it worked though. Nice product! Wish I could have seen the growth discovery beta in there. Definitely a different offering than Looker, but still has some nice stuff. Back to my previous point...are you A/B testing the email gate on demo? You don't tell me how my email will be used, and my onl…

Agreed, an email gate is something that we'll be testing a lot in the future. For now- you can go directly to amplitude.com/demo and you can get around the email gate. Hope that's helpful!

Also- around the first version of growth discovery engine, it spit out a bunch of precomputed groups of users with no input and ranked them by which ones were most correlated with retention. We beta tested it with many of our existing customers who were looking for functionality like this and they all didn't like how magical it was. I know, I was surprised too, who doesn't like automation!

Re: 10M events a month, free

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Post by sskates »

interesting_att wrote: post #62
sskates wrote: post #3

Hi 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!

Game developer here, currently deciding between you guys and Mixpanel. Could you offer pros/cons to each platform? We are looking to create a bunch of custom dashboards for in-game activity.

There's a good amount of stuff on Google, but here's a recent convert's take: https://medium.com/@illscience/mixpanel-vs-amplitude-6b3ba36...

Re: 10M events a month, free

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Post by gingerlime »

sskates wrote: post #75
gingerlime wrote: post #74

This looks neat and the video on the post highlights stuff that we've always wanted to do with mixpanel, but couldn't really manage that easily. Even things like copying a query and just changing one parameter is a drag with mixpanel. All that being said, the free plan doesn't include all those neat features like cohort analysis, and the paid plan is way beyond our reach at ~$1k. We're currently paying around $300 to…

You can get started on the free plan with more data and Microscope- which on it's own many teams have already have found to be a gamechanger. Message me at spenser@amplitude.com and we can figure out a way to make it compelling.

thanks Spenser. Dropped you an email. Hope to hear back and figure out a way.
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