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Ask HN: Email analytics for your business or newsletter?

A friend and I are tossing around the idea of building a Chartbeat for email. Using pixel tracking we'd show helpful real-time data (number of opens right now, opens today vs. one week ago) and deeper stuff (users that open emails most often, read newsletters the longest, etc.). Would this be something anyone would want to use?

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Re:Unit Economics on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:28PM (#10255258)
Homejoy seems to be the most recent example of non-sensical unit economics.
Re:iOS 8 Widgets Gallery on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @06:03PM (#8364430)
cool, what app do you work on?
Re:First health app to accept Bitcoin on Thursday August 28, 2014 @03:50PM (#8239304)
How does apple feel about it?
As a Sikh American that wears a turban every day [https://www.facebook.com/satjot], it's great to see a positive piece on Turbans in the US. For the most part I've dealt with comments like, "Hey Osama", "You Towel Head", "Taliban!"...
Re: on Monday July 07, 2014 @04:06PM (#8001066)
This seems very similar to hired.com
If the tech just looks at the screenshot image, how does it have near full coverage of mobile web but has to train/fingerprint apps?
Nice. Congrats guys.
Re:Facebook’s F8 Agenda: Deep linking for mobile apps on Sunday March 09, 2014 @12:44AM (#7367614)
@allantyoung there are a few ways Facebook can compile this data : (1) They could make calls to app url schemes that are publicly known (i.e. http://handleopenurl.com/) to check for a response (2) Facebook will become the largest data set of app url schemes as more apps register their url schema with Facebook when enabling deep-linking (3) Facebook bought Parse, and over 100,000 apps use Parse and many of those apps use FB connect, so Facebook knows which apps those users have
My friend has a 25 minute timer, during which time, he only focuses on the task in front of him. It is more to curb ADD but ends up helping with productivity.
Re:Create gifs of your mobile app on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @03:10PM (#7342752)
Thats the magic - we are making so easy easy to make the gifs that it'll be a no brainer.
Re:Create gifs of your mobile app on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @03:00PM (#7342651)
Thanks eric. We realize that gifs can get cumbersome and sometimes take a while to load, but it's a good place to start.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best sources of news for iOS app dev? on Thursday February 13, 2014 @07:51PM (#7235983)
@tapfame writes a weekly newsletter - check them out.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014) on Saturday February 01, 2014 @08:49PM (#7164410)
SEEKING FREELANCER - I created this meetup group earlier this year for iOS and Android freelancers: http://www.meetup.com/ios-android-freelancers/

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