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makwarth

293 karma · joined February 26, 2011

Founder https://reflag.com Prev: Founder of Opbeat (acq. by Elastic), and some failed startups before that!
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makwarth··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)
Bucket | https://bucket.co | Europe/US East | Engineering

Ever shipped a feature and didn’t know, if the customers loved it?

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Job description: https://bucket.co/jobs/senior-full-stack-typescript-engineer

makwarth··on Ask HN: How to you track if newly released features have expected engagement?
Cheers!
makwarth··on Ask HN: How to you track if newly released features have expected engagement?
Got it, makes sense. Appreciate the concrete example! As for the event tracking data, do you use a tracking plan, like Segment Protocols?
makwarth··on Ask HN: How to you track if newly released features have expected engagement?
True ;) Sometimes, though, a new feature isn't getting engagement because people are busy. Product and Product marketing can use low engagement metrics to raise awareness.
makwarth··on Ask HN: How to you track if newly released features have expected engagement?
Good point! Talking to some of the users of the feature you're about to remove is probably a good first step. Do those users use the feature in a way that's aligned with your product strategy?
makwarth··on Ask HN: How to you track if newly released features have expected engagement?
How do you track that exactly? Any chance you can share a concrete example?
makwarth··on Show HN: Bucket – Simple Feature Analytics
Hi, I’m the solo founder of Bucket. I’ve built this tool to easily measure the success of software features. Out of the box, Bucket will tell you how many users are engaging with your feature, and how often (daily, weekly, monthly). That’s it! It’s simple but enough to be actionable.

I’ve needed something like this in previous SaaS companies. For whatever reason, traditional product analytics platforms were never adopted outside of a small group of product managers. Bucket is analytics for the individual features.

I hope that software teams (engineers, designers, product, etc.) will consider using this. Sometimes we need to ship less new features and iterate on existing ones. Maybe even delete some features once in a while! :)

Feedback very welcome!

makwarth··on A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine
Very cool - thanks for sharing!
makwarth··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Nice work!
makwarth··on Engineering offices
;-)
makwarth··on Engineering offices
Fully agree regarding "collaboration". The "money" argument is what I'm arguing against in the post. You can pack more engineers in an open office, but if the software output is low, you're not saving money - you're carelessly wasting resources.
makwarth··on Introducing Annotated Stacktraces
Hey, I'm the co-founder of Opbeat. Thanks for sharing! Would love feedback on our release.
makwarth··on Don't Ask for Money - Ask for Advice
Agree. However, a good side effect of being out there, talking to angels etc., is that you build up a gut feeling, so you learn whether conversations are going somewhere or not. Hopefully, over time, you won't stay clueless ;)
makwarth··on Fuck it, ship it.
When we put it up in the office some people thought it said "Fuck it, sail it." ;)