[deepaksshah]

Congratulations on the launch.

We were looking for this very solution. Writing queries and mapping them downstream is pretty handy.

I also noticed that you support Rudderstack(yet another great tool), and we can send events via their http connector.

Looking forward to using this tool.

Do you plan on adding Clickhouse as source anytime soon?

[kashishg]

Yes, Clickhouse is a top priority source for us to build next to enable real-time analytics (we already support Rockset as a source used by customers like Seesaw). Would love to learn more about your use case for Clickhouse: feel free to reach out to [e-mail]!

[killerpixler]

Interesting tool indeed. You made a good point about RudderStack and synergies there. I'm curious to see how hightouch is going to diffentiate from something like RudderStack, which has a boatload of reverse ETL functionality of its own. I mean event stream data and moving data from your warehouse back out to tools is pretty their mantra

[kashishg]

Then you could say the same thing about Hightouch and Segment. Segment == Rudderstack for all intensive purposes.

The way it's differentiated is that Rudderstack does event collection + forwarding + some flavor of reverse ETL. In order to be successful with them you'd need to replace your whole stack and do event collection with them. A lot of companies already have an existing stack and they want to buy a best-in-class Reverse ETL player (something that takes 5 min to set up) and that's where we come in!

[soumyadeb]

RudderStack founder here.

We tend to believe we have a pretty good reverse-ETL product too which can be used standalone without event collection. Best is class is a moving target anyway and upto customers to judge :)

However, I do agree on the point around focus. Our positioning, go-to-market, pricing, use cases etc are centered around building the end to end customer data infrastructure. There are folks who already have pieces of the stack or don't need a full CDI (e.g. non PLG B2B companies) and only need reverse-ETL.

The market is enormous so I believe we both will do great. Congrats on the launch.

[tejasmanohar]

Agree RE: focus. Rudderstack is a bundle and there is a place for that.

Hightouch is 100% focused on activating data from the warehouse. Everything we build is Reverse ETL or built on top of Reverse ETL - that means we spend every waking minute thinking about progressing the Reverse ETL space, just like Fivetran are laser-focused on SaaS data ingest or Snowplow on behavioral/event data ingest (other parts of the Rudderstack bundle)

We're a big fan of RudderStack's drive. As an ex-Segmenter, I can say that competing with that team is not easy. Best of luck! We will continue watching from the sidelines :)

[soumyadeb]

Thanks Tejas for your kind words :) We too have nothing short of enormous respect for what you guys have achieved. Looking forward to you and team to push innovation in this space forward.