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Re:Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative by public_void on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:31PM (#29109221)
Hey congrats on the launch, clearly a lot of thought and effort went into this. I'm pretty new to this space, and maybe this is a dumb question but how does this differ from Mixpanel? Would I use this for something different?
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Re:Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative by vklmn on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:36PM (#29110168)
Mixpanel will store the data for you and do visualization. Jitsu just help you to get you data to your data warehouse.

Downside: you'll need to build all visualization by yourself. Fortunately that's easy with tools such as Looker, Mode, Metabase etc

Upside: you can do with your data whatever you want - built any reports, join with other datasets etc. You not limited by reports MixPanel team build.

In reality, Jitsu and MixPanel could co-exist. Jitsu support s MixPanel as a destination (e.g. you send data to Jitsu ; Jitsu sends it to MixPanel and data warehouse).

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Re:Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative by frb on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:53AM (#29117208)
Feedback on "Jitsu support s MixPanel as a destination"

This is not really clear from the website. Mixpanel is mentioned in https://jitsu.com/sources but NOT in https://jitsu.com/destinations. Also the docs seem very clear about that.

We are currently looking at Segment, Jitsu and others. While we generally liked Jitsu, this was kind of a big deal for us and made us lean towards Segment.

However, no final decision has been made yet. ;-)

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Re:Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative by jbwyme on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:29PM (#29154530)
Mixpanel employee here, I actually just emailed Jitsu this morning to ask about adding Mixpanel as a destination. We're willing to work with them (or any of you!) to get the PR open. Feel free to reach out directly to [email protected]!
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