Toasted Analytics

Hi fellow founders ✌️

I'm happy to announce that Toasted Analytics has finally launched after 6 months of development, tweaking, fixing & rewriting. Over 100 people subscribed to Toasted's launch in December and January.

I don't want to make this a purely promotional post, what I'd like to do is just share some of my thoughts. I'll keep this short and maybe will follow it up with a longer blog post in a few months.

• There's no perfect tech stack. Ask yourself what requirements do you have regarding your own product? For example: I wanted Toasted to have an API that performs really well while using little memory, so I picked a tech stack that allowed me to achieve this.

• Unless you have millions in funding then expenses low. Realize where you need to compromise and instead of using an amazing (and expensive) paid tool. Pick a free or open source alternative, maybe even build your own. It's much easier to play the long game when you're not loosing thousands every month

• Look at the competition. Looking at what the competition is offering is a great way of learning what their customers want (and what yours will too!).

• Make sure your product is ready for prime-time. Ask yourself, would you go back and try a tool for the second time if the first time your experience was terribly buggy and unstable?

And finally... Don't give up. It's easy to fall into the mindset of "there's no way this will work" during the development phase. Not to sound too cheesy but "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take". So, keep pushing, you never know what the future holds.

And here comes the plug 😛
If you are looking for a simple analytics tool for your website then take a look at https://toastedanalytics.com
If you have an interesting startup then contact me at hello@toastedanalytics.com and we'll arrange a discount ;)