ivarpruijn
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Co-founder Objectiv, open-source infrastructure for product analytics. Building things people want to use, data geek.
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Comment · 4 years ago
PostHog & Mixpanel are great for self-service analytics, we aim to do something different. We're building infrastructure around a generic event taxonomy, so data teams can share & collaborate on advanced modeling. We don't do the BI part, but are data warehouse native.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the detailed comments. To create the first version of the taxonomy, we looked at the 50 companies we worked with doing modeling on their existing analytics data (from GA, Adobe, Mixpanel etc) and mapped their product UI’s and data team requirements into one extensible data format. In your examples, the taxonomy would classify these as interactive user actions, with a PressEvent on a Pressable UI element. This way, models can work both on the GitHub and HN examples in one generic way, so there is no need to come up with very case-specific naming and map these once you build a model. If you still have use-cases that are not covered, the taxonomy is also extensible, which enables you to use our validation & data modeling.
About replacing components: no need to do this if you don't want to, you can either: A) Swap native components without having to code anything, using the premade Tracked<Component> for a specific platform (e.g. `<TrackedButton onClick={handleClick}>Click Me!</TrackedButton>`); or B) Use your own component of your liking (i.e. Next.js' Link) and wrap a TrackedContext around it that automatically triggers an Event (e.g. see https://objectiv.io/docs/tracking/react/api-reference/tracke...).
We're big fans of Snowplow for scalability and have an early integration where you can run Objectiv data straight into a SP pipeline https://github.com/objectiv/objectiv-analytics/tree/main/bac...
Comment · 4 years ago
One of the creators here. Think you're totally right, going to disable the automatic toggle. Thanks for pointing this out.
Comment · 12 years ago
There's syntax highlighting for over 110 languages (TextMate/Sublime Text.tm language files can be imported), but if yours is not included, the Ace editor we use is Open Source, so you can build your own highlighter (see http://ace.c9.io/#nav=higlighter) or submit a request to build it: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues?labels=mode-request&pa...