#idea-validation -- I think it's time for a better analytics solution. thoughts?
#idea-validation -- I think it's time for a better analytics solution. thoughts?
about me
Hi, I’m Deepak Devjani, I am an engineer, builder, and lifelong learner. I've been building products/ businesses since the mid-2000s, have had my share of failures (& some successes) to understand a little bit about building product.
what-I’ve-been-doing
Over the last few years, I’ve built an integrated engineering and design dept. for founders and startups, helping them build their products or run their engineering (this is going well, called ReliableBits.io brings in low 7 figures/yr)
what-I’m-doing-next
Today I am psyched to share my next project — a dope analytics play called Pulse Metrics (Pulsemetrics.io)
why
Being a PM, I always found myself crippled by the lack of accurate and quick analytics that would give me a complete picture of the things I was building, what works, how, why etc.
That’s what led to the nexus of Pulse Metrics. I’m aiming it to be the easiest, quickest way to know the pulse of your business. It automatically tracks the key metrics of any web app, website or mobile app. allowing you to focus on your business.
existing clients seem to love it so I'm thinking of opening it up for beta in a few weeks.
If you'd like to learn more about it or even have questions on how to go about setting up analytics for your business or building product -- let me know! I'm here to help and would be glad to!!
thanks
See you at tonight's meetup in NYC!!
Congrats on building this project, and thanks for sharing it here!
As I was browsing your landing page I found myself wondering how exactly it's different from the other analytics solutions out there. Something to consider knocking people over the head with up front (vs. depending on a chart or in-deep reading) before your Beta. Onwards!
@lforrest Hi! you're def asking the right questions. I did take a stab at comparing Pulse with other analytics providers... here's a quick chart that shows that. would love any thoughts you have on it! :)
https://pulsemetrics.io/comparison
some major differences + pain points I've seen with other analytics platforms that I'm trying to address:
lack of one integrated solution that does web and mobile apps on iOS and Android (google with firebase is attempting to do this and it's ridiculous to setup)
technical debt for setup - Pulse is just a couple lines of code, setup once.
if you update designs, or CTAs or anything on your site or app, the analytics will stop working and will need to be manually remapped. every time. and developers often forget to do that, so now your analytics aren't even accurate. Pulse auto-detects and auto-updates the button / CTA mappings.
if you want to get any level of deeper insights, there's a large learning curve and the need to manually code events together. eg. google analytics, fb, mixpanel etc.
their user experience is really confusing, can't get a straight answer on key metrics (eg. GA)