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Show HN: Pulse – An open-source Baremetrics / ProfitWell alternative

12 points by mritchie712 5y ago

mritchie712 5y ago
Hey HN - At my last SaaS company, I tried all the subscription analytics platforms out there, but they each lacked some things I wanted: 1. Drill down to customer level detail for metrics 2. Ability to inspect the data pipeline and calculations from raw data to final metric 3. Direct SQL access to the modeled data I've been hacking on Pulse for a few months and it's now ready for beta. Pulse is: 1. Transparent - Easily drill down and see how metrics are calculated at the customer level 2. Free & Open source - It's easy to self host, but there's also a free hosted version here: https://pulse.trypaper.io/ https://pulse.trypaper.io/. 3. Extensible - Have some weird edge case you need to exclude? You can update your data model with a little SQL and you always have direct SQL access to your data. 4. Push first - Metrics can be pushed to Slack, Sheets, and email so you don't need to check yet another dashboard. The integrations work out of the box, no janky Zapier workflows are needed. Links: Pulse - https://pulse.trypaper.io/ https://pulse.trypaper.io/ Github - https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse
- phil-martin 5y ago
  Hi Mike! Looks really interesting, and your screenshot looked awesome. It's something relevant for me at the moment. I read through the GitHub page and some of the code, but couldn't find the information I was after. Could I ask some questions? - How do I get data into this? e.g. How did the system know that person760@example.com had a payment failed for their invoice? - Did you mean to link to trypaper.io on your github page? It doesn't look like it should, and I don't really want to "Get offers from 100+ lenders in one click" :) - How long have you been working on this for?
  - mritchie712 5y ago
    Hey Phil! Great questions and I'll add this to the README: - Data is automatically loaded using your Stripe API key. Stripe is the only source I'm supporting right now, but happy to add more based on demand. - Yeah, good catch, it shouldn't link Paper's landing page. I'll fix that! - Been working on it a few months

12 points by mritchie712 5y ago

Hey HN - At my last SaaS company, I tried all the subscription analytics platforms out there, but they each lacked some things I wanted: 1. Drill down to customer level detail for metrics 2. Ability to inspect the data pipeline and calculations from raw data to final metric 3. Direct SQL access to the modeled data I've been hacking on Pulse for a few months and it's now ready for beta. Pulse is: 1. Transparent - Easily drill down and see how metrics are calculated at the customer level 2. Free & Open source - It's easy to self host, but there's also a free hosted version here: https://pulse.trypaper.io/ https://pulse.trypaper.io/. 3. Extensible - Have some weird edge case you need to exclude? You can update your data model with a little SQL and you always have direct SQL access to your data. 4. Push first - Metrics can be pushed to Slack, Sheets, and email so you don't need to check yet another dashboard. The integrations work out of the box, no janky Zapier workflows are needed. Links: Pulse - https://pulse.trypaper.io/ https://pulse.trypaper.io/ Github - https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse

phil-martin 5y ago
Hi Mike! Looks really interesting, and your screenshot looked awesome. It's something relevant for me at the moment. I read through the GitHub page and some of the code, but couldn't find the information I was after. Could I ask some questions? - How do I get data into this? e.g. How did the system know that person760@example.com had a payment failed for their invoice? - Did you mean to link to trypaper.io on your github page? It doesn't look like it should, and I don't really want to "Get offers from 100+ lenders in one click" :) - How long have you been working on this for?
- mritchie712 5y ago
  Hey Phil! Great questions and I'll add this to the README: - Data is automatically loaded using your Stripe API key. Stripe is the only source I'm supporting right now, but happy to add more based on demand. - Yeah, good catch, it shouldn't link Paper's landing page. I'll fix that! - Been working on it a few months