[throwaway63820]

Just use Amplitude

[alex_lav]

Last I used Amplitude it was insanely expensive. Is that not still the case?

[sskates]

We’re working on it! Free up to 10M events, more to come later this year.

What would reasonably costed look like to you?

More on my view on real-time analytics here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15380607

[alex_lav]

I need to remember that on HN, sometimes the founders of companies I'm talking about will respond :D. I should've used more words.

I don't really know what reasonably costed would've looked like for the time I used Amplitude (2018-2019), but I know that the value my team extracted from it was not commensurate with its cost. Whether that was because of overzealous assumptions on our part, or something else, I don't really know, but I know we signed up, used for a few months and then canceled/downgraded to a cheaper service whose name is escaping me.

I was mostly challenging the "Just use ____" notion of the commenter above, not really that Amplitude is worth the money for correctly-intentioned businesses. Regardless I appreciate the ask.

[dylan604]

real-time, good, cheap. pick two.

[cduzz]

At best it's pick two. Often you get one or none.