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by karterk 4569 days ago
Having taken this path from a 2-person running a "nobody cares about this" app to an app with some decent traction, there are always other things more worthwhile to do in the early stages than trying to get insights from the invariably small amounts of data in the DB. A 2-person company should be talking to users rather than trying to analyze patterns from database tables. Sample size is just too small, and you will be evolving so fast that the trends will almost be meaningless.

If you grow to be more than 2-people, then taking a mirror dump of the prod db to run queries against is pretty trivial effort.