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Saw your comment on the Posthog post yesterday. Sounds like you felt the pain of scaling at Heap, which bodes well for FP. Freshpaint looks super useful for t
by kareemm 7y ago
Saw your comment on the Posthog post yesterday. Sounds like you felt the pain of scaling at Heap, which bodes well for FP.
Freshpaint looks super useful for two reasons:
1. Heap-style "collect it all" and "define events in the UI" features. Loved these on Heap and it should be the default collector for taking dev out of the "tracking usage metrics" equation
2. More Segment competition. Segment's great, but super expensive for business models where the # of your tracked users doesn't scale with pricing.
I could imagine using this with PostHog for a nice product usage stack.
- malisper 7y ago> Saw your comment on the Posthog post yesterday. Sounds like you felt the pain of scaling at Heap, which bodes well for FP. Yep! At Heap I had to build a system to ingest a ton of data and process queries over that data that returned in seconds in real-time. For Freshpaint, we need to ingest the same amount of data, but without the need to query it. I honestly think building Freshpaint has been several times easier than building Heap. Early on, I had a conversation with Heap's CTO about Freshpaint. He said something funny along the lines of "I wish I could work on this because I would absolutely destroy this problem." > Segment's great, but super expensive for business models where the # of your tracked users doesn't scale with pricing. Definitely! This is one of the things Fitz and I noticed before starting Freshpaint. It seems like until now, Segment hasn't had any real competitors. Segment is kind of now known for being overpriced.
- divbzero 7y ago[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22379373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22379373 "direct link to that PostHog comment"