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   by sskates 12y ago

   We don't- you need to explicitly instrument. I think auto-instrumentation is great for web because you already have a clear DOM structure. Mobile is more difficult as it's native code and 1 to 1 mapping to UI elements is not as cu
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   by sskates 12y ago

   We actually had a good number of customers in private beta from before our launch but it's grown by a factor of 5 since then. It's true though that the lower the denominator the higher the growth percentage that you can quote.
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   by sskates 12y ago

   Direct access to querying on your data via a data warehouse (Amazon Redshift). Localytics' sales team will say they have that but if you actually try it you basically have to build an entire ETL pipeline yourself (I'd encourage yo
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   by sskates 12y ago

   Spenser from Amplitude here, happy to answer any questions you guys have about what we're up to.
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   Amplitude (YC W12), Mobile Analytics Startup, Raises $2M Seed Round(techcrunch.com)

   42 points by sskates 12y ago|16 comments
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   by sskates 12y ago

   The most difficult part is selling to a hospital. So if you can crack that half of the problem the technology is the easy part.
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   by sskates 12y ago

   I know you think it might come across antagonistic in an interview, but I wouldn't be offended if you came in and asked us these: > Who's the weakest person on your team? The newest hire to our company. It's not a total or
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   by sskates 12y ago

   Surprising how difficult this process is. You'd think that publishers would be careful about having matching names and icons so that it'd be easy for people on Android to find an app when they see an equivalent in the apple App St
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   by sskates 12y ago

   I'll be forwarding this to our lawyer when we implement the legal paperwork on our stock option plan. We already do 1) and 4) as much as we can. If anyone here has any ideas of how else we can be more friendly to employees with regard
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Whenever I read HN and see an extremely anti-startup comment I always know it's from you. For a while I'd get angry reading your comments, but I'm actually curious- What on earth happened between you and startups to make you
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Wil Chung holds the record at 7 last I checked. I actually have a huge amount of respect for him for being so persistent. If I were an investor that'd be the thing I look for first.
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    by sskates 13y ago

    iPad Applications definitely are. In the non-gaming world, Plangrid, drchrono, and Paper by Fiftythree have all been really successful, and that's just off the top of my head.
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    by sskates 13y ago

    We're really glad to have you as a customer, Siqi!
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Thanks Andrew!
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Thanks for taking a look! Email me at spenser@amplitude.com
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Thanks Brandon!
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    by sskates 13y ago

    We don't share data to any third parties. We do look at aggregate traffic internally to ensure we can meet demand. We also will go into people's accounts if they ask us to for support. I'll make that more explicit in our poli
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Yes, we tie the two data sets together.
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    by sskates 13y ago

    It's persistent across app opens, not across installs though. We were using AdvertiserID for tracking but Apple started clamping down on that so we've switched over to to vendor ID, which they explicitly recommend for things like
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    by sskates 13y ago

    It's not a dollar amount, but any NSNumber value. We'll provide support for localization down the line.
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    by sskates 13y ago

    It's true that tests are very helpful for this. However there are a lot of bugs in the wild that are difficult to reproduce, especially ones that will only crop up under rare conditions of state. It's as Linus said- "There re
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    by sskates 13y ago

    If you're curious about it for your own iOS app, we have that data for you. We keep all app data private to the app developer though, so we can't share aggregate statistics.
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions! We're on cocoapods, have tests, and a sample app locally but haven't pushed all that to Github to keep things simple for everyone looking at the source. Model name tracking is an issue- we've fixed
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Affected by the Namecheap DDOS today unfortunately. Just switched over to Amazon Route 53 but it's taking a while to propagate to everyone.
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Thanks for taking a look at our SDK. We actually put in all the comments on the interface file to clear up confusion people had when using the API.
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    by sskates 13y ago

    We're actually cheaper than Google Analytics at really large scale. One of our most recent customers was recently forced upgrade to Google Analytics Premium because they were tracking too much data and decided to come to us instead bec
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Really proud of the entire team on getting us here! Happy to answer any questions you guys have.
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    Mobile Analytics Platform Amplitude (YC W12) Takes On Flurry and Mixpanel(techcrunch.com)

    46 points by sskates 13y ago|43 comments
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    by sskates 13y ago

    Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything quite like it. Top coder is a programming competition- although it's normally algorithms based instead of objective based. If you do find anything, let me know! You can also still
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    by sskates 13y ago

    You can do it- the competition and prizes are 100% open and they have people from lots of schools at the finals.