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I'm not affiliated with Freshpaint, but I'm curious what you mean by this. Event collectors absolutely do make money (albeit none are probably profitable due t

I'm not affiliated with Freshpaint, but I'm curious what you mean by this. Event collectors absolutely do make money (albeit none are probably profitable due to being in growth phases right now). Also, very few are open source (Mixpanel, Segment, Snowplow, and Amplitude's tracking libraries are open source, Heap's mobile library is open source, but the backends and visualization platforms are closed and the primary value of the product).

xmly 7y ago
collectors, I mean analytics.js... These js files collect the events from web app and sent them to the backend. You can charge people on these files, but who is gonna pay? But once the events are in your backend, customers have to pay for getting them out and for storage as well.
- slap_shot 7y ago
  Who is going to pay for anlaytics.js? Segment, the maintainers of analytics.js, did $50MM in revenue last year.
  - xmly 7y ago
    That is because they have a backend service. The revenue is generated through the backend service, not the js client.