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Ah gotcha. Thanks for the input.

I've been looking at Snowplow and it seems really cool.

I think San Francisco is definitely among the top cities.

You don't need a degree. It's all about what you can do. What have you done? What skills do you have?

When I was looking, I researched a lot of the job openings and looked at the skills they were hiring for. Then I taught myself the skills and technologies I didn't know.

It also helps to know what the most in demand jobs are. I'm not sure if it's the same, but last year the top jobs were front-end engineers and dev ops.

When I was ready I went out to apply for jobs and pretty much had the exact resume jobs were looking for. Then the bidding war starts as everyone wants you to work for their company!

I'm doing the same thing. Been working on it for a year now and I'm solo.

Not going to lie, it's fucking hard sometimes. It's definitely not for everyone. Some days I want to give up and some days when things come together I feel that it's all worth it. That's the life you have to be prepared for - drastic ups and downs.

Since I'm bootstrapping the company I just don't have the money to hire full-time people yet. So what I did is bring on a few advisors who can help out in exchange for equity. Mainly in the areas that I'm not very strong skill wise. If anything they are someone to talk to. It can get lonely being solo.

As far as meetups and presenting it, that's usually better after you have something. If you already have something and have traction, people are often more interested in joining you rather than competing. Before then talk to prospective customers and make sure people actually want what you have.

Good luck!

Sounds pretty cool. What tech is it based on? Just a standard api and db?

Also, can I ask how big your company is? A few million records is decent volume.

Sounds really useful. I'll have to check that out.

Yeah I agree. It's a tough call sometimes.

Whoa. That's badass.

Do you pull any info regarding the IP addresses, or is it only the raw logs that you're going through?

Yeah I hear you. I run into the same issue - why pay if you can build it yourself.

Thanks for the insight.

I haven't heard of WebTrends before. I'm looking at their website now. Are you self-hosting it? I can't find info on that option.

Yeah that makes sense being a government org.

I'm not sure if I follow you there. What did you mean by, "The bigger the data the more self-hosting will make sense for you, but the less for your customers"?

Good feedback.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing - that companies who are self hosting are more likely to be engineering-oriented. Otherwise like you said it's just too much of a pain to handle it yourself.

May I ask, why did you self-host vs use an external service? To save money, for greater security and privacy?

Yeah. I'm actually asking the question as one of my friends mentioned we should offer a full self hosted option for enterprise.

I don't know if we want to go that direction though. Plus I wasn't even sure who is actually self hosting these days. Kind of reminds me of the Silicon Valley show with the "box" in the data center dilemma.

Yeah, that would be awesome.

This looks awesome. Just what I was looking for.

Seems like they have some decent companies using them too.

I've been talking to a friend about it and he mentioned using Elastic Search to build our own setup. Idk if it's the right use case though...

Thoughts using it so far?

Yeah I've been looking at Piwik. What do you think so far?

The only aspect I didn't like was it was PHP. Not really my strong language - if I wanted to customize it.

This looks great. I'll definitely try it out.

Yeah I've been there too. I actually had that realization while in college. I saw my friends a couple years older than me who were graduating, but could not find jobs, and were going no where.

It took me awhile, but you need to figure out what you want of life. For me at least, I decided I wanted to help make the world a better place and be in control of my own life. To create something and not rely on a 9-5 job for a paycheck. I'm still figuring shit out myself, but I think I learn more by trying and failing than I would ever learn in school.

Check out James Altucher. I read this a few years ago when I was in a similar state of mind and this article really struck a chord with me.

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/12/the-ultimate-cheat-shee...

I'm on year 3 :)

This is awesome. Learning the whole modern build ecosystem was such a headache. It's great it see best practices rolled up for new users to experience.

Hey everyone. I originally built this after getting sick of my PM constantly ask me to add / change the event tracking in the app.

The big question - "How is this different from Heap?"

You choose what you want to track and we only track that. So there's less noise from a bunch of bs data that you don't care about. Additionally, you choose what integrations you want the data sent to. We don't store the data ourselves. You can even choose to send the data to an internal setup via a Webhook.

Lastly, you can track very fine grained events. Like when the user has scrolled 75% of the page, the form validation failed, or a YouTube video was watched 50%.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Yeah I've learned this the hard way as being one of those people to "sort it all out". I now make a point of reviewing a company's codebase before joining. I refuse to join a startup with a shitty codebase that falls apart after to touching it once.