Mixpanel VS PostHog

You can test sales copy with Mixpanel to see where your traffic is coming from so you can see which content (Informative or promotional) generates the most engagement.

Custom Data Collection As you grow you can consider a bit more precise configurations and data analytics approachs. Implement custom data collection through or event tracking for example via Mixpanel. This allows you to capture specific metrics tailored to your product's unique needs

11. Mixpanel

Add analytics event with Mixpanel:

I am looking into whether you have experienced any pain points or issues not solved by current analytics platforms. By current solutions I'm talking plausible.io, mixpanel.com, usermaven.com and alike, providing features such as: total visitors, page views, online users, custom events tracking, top sources.

Ten years ago, there was a popular Ask HN: "what's your startup’s analytics setup?” [0]. Like the poster then (malandrew), I have the same problem in 2023: Selecting analytics solutions for the startup I'm working at has proven to be more daunting than I imagined.

There are many services to choose from and it's not immediately obvious how you should choose from the many offerings to get not only complete analytics coverage but also do so in a way where you can integrate them all to get a complete picture without any mismatch.

There is too much marketing speech copy on the sites of many analytics startups to properly evaluate them without wasting time and effort to signup, configure and use each one long enough to understand the value they provide.

Off the top of my head, there are services like Segment [1], Amplitude [2], Mixpanel [3], Trackingplan [4], Avo [5], Posthog [6], Freshpaint [7], etc.

So ten years later, what are the must-have analytics solutions for startups? What are the best tools for bringing in all the data from the different analytics tools? How should Engineering, Product and Data work together around analytics?

The more details you can provide the better.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707903

[1]: https://segment.com

[2]: https://amplitude.com

[3]: https://mixpanel.com

[4]: https://www.trackingplan.com

[5]: https://www.avo.app

[6]: https://posthog.com

[7]: https://www.freshpaint.io

Mixpanel is a truly impressive product analytics tool that can provide rich insights to engineering, product, and marketing teams alike. Server-side Mixpanel integrations are able to produce an extremely reliable analytics layer with highly consistent event tracking. Deeply integrating Mixpanel in this way enables you to fully analyze your product and discover useful insights.

Website: https://mixpanel.com

For example, we all know advanced analytics systems such as Mixpanel or Amplitude, which are fundamentally the same. The implementation of these products requires the help of the developer, so the product that communicates clearly with the developer through clear documentation or tutorials can capture a large market share.

It would be a shame not to mention PostHog as the telemetry provider we are using, since it turned out to be extremely useful. Because it is hard to find people who will talk with you about your product, gathering statistics gave us a much greater insight into our users.

6- PostHog

Hi HN, PostHog employee here. I'm working on our Web Analytics product, which is currently in beta. It's fun to see us mentioned here :)

I should mention that we have a ton of SDKs (see https://posthog.com/docs/libraries) for back end frameworks and languages, so if you wanted to use PostHog without any client-side JS you could send pageviews and other events manually, but for the vast majority of people it makes more sense to use our JS snippet.

Hijacking this comment to share the roadmap for web analytics https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/18547. It's very much in the launch-early-and-be-embarassed phase, but I would love to hear any feedback or suggestions that people have, particularly if you're already a PostHog user.

how's this different than https://posthog.com/ ?

PostHog - Open Source Alternative to Mixpanel

Don't insert the logs/events/analytics into your Application DB. Usually, you send those to specialist datastores (OLAP etc) that process such high volume of data. You can use something like clickhouse [0] for example or use 3rd party SAAS solutions like posthog [1] etc that are built on top of clickhouse

[0] https://clickhouse.com

[1] https://posthog.com

I may use Flask-Admin initially to offload the "CRUD" operations to have an initial prototype fast but then drop it ASAP because I don't want to write a "flask-admin application" to fight against later on. If the application is mainly "CRUD", then Flask-Admin is suitable.

Now...

Would you do a breakdown/list of all the jobs you've done by sector/vertical and by function/role and by application functionality?

- [0]: https://flask.palletsprojects.com

- [1]: https://flask-admin.readthedocs.io/en/latest

- [2]: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.3.x/patterns/celery

- [3]: https://sentry.io

- [4]: https://posthog.com

- [5]: https://www.docker.com

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Full stack engineer, technical ex-founder, tech lead | https://posthog.com

PostHog is the only open-source Product OS, combining product analytics, session recordings, feature flags, cdp and a data warehouse in one.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [0]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us [email protected]

[0] https://posthog.com/handbook/

There seems to be posthog.com analytics and AB or feature flag functionality that is blocked by adblockers. Probably that?