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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 aggres

by sskates 11y ago

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!

hellbanner 11y ago
Internal Server Error -- HN effect?
- sskates 11y ago
  Sorry, should be fixed now! Are you still seeing any issues?
  - hellbanner 11y ago
    Working
ddorian43 11y ago
what is your backend stack ? is redshift that cost effective ?
- sskates 11y ago
  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.
nocturne 11y ago
Oh, hello Spenser-- haven't seen you in years. We went to MIT together. Congrats on the launch!
- sskates 11y ago
  Hello! Definitely miss MIT. Can't find anything on your profile, who am I talking with?
cakoose 11y ago
But isn't volume-based pricing a good approximation of cost-based pricing? With the new setup, are low-volume customers paying extra to subsidize high-volume customers?
interesting_att 11y ago
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.
- sskates 11y ago
  There's a good amount of stuff on Google, but here's a recent convert's take: https://medium.com/@illscience/mixpanel-vs-amplitude-6b3ba36103a0 https://medium.com/@illscience/mixpanel-vs-amplitude-6b3ba36...

by sskates 11y ago

hellbanner 11y ago

Internal Server Error -- HN effect?

sskates 11y ago
Sorry, should be fixed now! Are you still seeing any issues?
- hellbanner 11y ago
  Working

ddorian43 11y ago

what is your backend stack ? is redshift that cost effective ?

sskates 11y ago
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.

nocturne 11y ago

Oh, hello Spenser-- haven't seen you in years. We went to MIT together. Congrats on the launch!

sskates 11y ago
Hello! Definitely miss MIT. Can't find anything on your profile, who am I talking with?

cakoose 11y ago

But isn't volume-based pricing a good approximation of cost-based pricing? With the new setup, are low-volume customers paying extra to subsidize high-volume customers?

interesting_att 11y ago

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.

sskates 11y ago
There's a good amount of stuff on Google, but here's a recent convert's take: https://medium.com/@illscience/mixpanel-vs-amplitude-6b3ba36103a0 https://medium.com/@illscience/mixpanel-vs-amplitude-6b3ba36...