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Why is this free? Is this a loss-leader to get people to sign up for the full Mixpanel service? These days I just don't trust free services. I don't think the
by masukomi 15y ago
Why is this free?
Is this a loss-leader to get people to sign up for the full Mixpanel service?
These days I just don't trust free services. I don't think there's anything nefarious about them, I just don't trust that they're going to be around in a year (why keep running a service that has costs but no revenue), or that they won't get bought for their talent and promptly shut down.
If it uses resources to any significant degree (a JS on every page load can definitely do that when used at scale) there should either be a fee or a damn good reason why I should put my faith in it, especially if you're asking me to base business decisions / process on it.
- avree 15y agoI don't think you need to be worried about it being free. It's not actually free for everyone, I'd assume. The fact that they let you put a badge on your page to get "4x more views" makes me believe they're going to price it similarly to how Mixpanel is priced—it's free up to a certain number of interactions, and then has tiered pricing from that point on.
- martian 15y agoThis is free because to install it, you must put a link on your page back to MixPanel. MixPanel likes links because Google likes links: it increases the domain authority and PageRank for MixPanel. You'll notice that alt text in the link back to www.pixpanel.com is "Real Time Web Analytics", surely a set of keywords that MixPanel is aiming to own in search. This is a very clever and subtle SEO move that provides real benefit to users at the same time.
- notknifescience 15y agoAdding the badge to your site is not at all required to use Flow. We would like it if you did, so we will give you 4x the page views if you do, but it's not necessary at all.
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