Ask HN: Mixpanel alternatives for Desktop applications

Posted by oglo on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:03AM
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Are there any good alternatives to Mixpanel for desktop applications? Its a bit too expensive.

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Re:Ask HN: Mixpanel alternatives for Desktop applications by rfergie on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @10:48AM (#9069089)

There are a variety of tools for web applications because of how the web predisposes developers towards certain metaphors (page views, clicks etc.).

There restrictions also appear in desktops apps but it is more likely that the metaphor will be broken in a way that does not fit the model of the tool.

You might want to check out Snowplow as it has the most flexible model I know of. But from your answer to other comments it may be too much work for you

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Re:Ask HN: Mixpanel alternatives for Desktop applications by oglo on Monday February 23, 2015 @11:46AM (#9095236)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look at SnowPlow :)

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Re:Ask HN: Mixpanel alternatives for Desktop applications by darkxanthos on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:13AM (#9062994)

Build your own. It's crazy cheap to log things to a text file on a server. Use Spark to query from S3 and you're done.

You're really paying for the intuitive interface which you may not need.

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Re:Ask HN: Mixpanel alternatives for Desktop applications by oglo on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:49AM (#9063251)

That doesn't sound so nice as it would create an additional point of failure that I'll have to support.

I want to use a tried and tested, managed service whose uptime/maintenance is something that I don't have to worry about.

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