[HN Gopher] Launch HN: June (YC W21) - Two-click analytics repor...
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Launch HN: June (YC W21) - Two-click analytics reports on top of
Segment data
Hi HN! I'm Ferruccio, cofounder of June (https://june.so). We make
it easy to set up dashboards for your most important product
metrics. After a couple of years working in product teams, we
realised that most companies measure the same things. So we created
a set of templates that help you streamline the process of getting
an insight from your data. With Amplitude/Mixpanel you have to
know what you should be measuring and how. Getting to an insight
starts from a blank canvas, is intimidating, and requires some
expertise. With June, you pick a template, connect Segment, select
the right events for your analysis, and get a report. We currently
have 9 templates including Retention, Active Users, and Churning
Users. We release a new one every week. We're also starting to
allow you to create and share your own templates. To try it out,
go to https://june.so/templates and pick a template you'd like to
try. Connect your Segment account, select the events required for
your analysis, and get your insights. Looking forward to ideas and
feedback from the community!
Author : 0xferruccio
Score : 95 points
Date : 2021-02-16 16:15 UTC (6 hours ago)
| yingninggui wrote:
| June is super simple to set up! I literally got it up and running
| in less than 5 minutes. Congrats on the launch team :)
| knes wrote:
| Do you store the data you received from Segment. If so, how ? and
| how it is "secured"?
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Yes we store the data from Segment as it's just a pipeline.
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| Data is stored on AWS on a managed DB that is encrypted, always
| up to date with security patches and never leaves our
| infrastructure.
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| If your data is extremely sensitive and this isn't enough you
| can always remove PII from your Segment settings
|
| That being said if you have any suggestions on things that we
| could do to be more safe I'm happy to learn
| swlkr wrote:
| Congrats on the launch!
| bhouston wrote:
| Can I use June to get customer facing dashboards for customer
| slices of segment data?
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| We haven't thought of this. Would love to learn more about your
| use case! Feel free to email me at ferruccio at june dot so
| lessand_ro wrote:
| That's actually a good idea. I remember I was trying to put
| our user growth/daily active on our B2C product landing page
| and I needed to replicate in SQL the Amplitude query (after
| figuring out how to export data). Being able to embed
| "customer-facing" templates from June might be an interesting
| feature!
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| something along those lines that i was thinking about was
| embeddable iframes founders can add to their notion pitch
| decks or investor updates!
| mlejva wrote:
| Just signed up. Do you retrospectively pull events from the past?
| Not sure if it's even possible to do with Segment.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| We only do this if you have an enterprise Segment plan.
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| This generally isn't the case as most of our users are early
| stage startups
| mlejva wrote:
| Got it. Excited to try out some templates once you have more
| events after few days!
| udewie wrote:
| Congrats!
| buremba wrote:
| It looks like a great SaaS product targeting solo-founders that
| don't have enough time to build their own reports. The customer
| data platforms such as Segment enable these use-cases by making
| the integration seamless enough for everyone so Segment looks
| like a great choice too, congrats!
|
| It's not an argument but as the companies scale, I see that most
| of them often feel the need of switching to (or adding an extra
| layer) a BI tool for flexibility so I hope to see the same trend
| among the data analysts. It's now trivial to ingest the customer
| event data into your data warehouse thanks to Segment Warehouse,
| open-source tools such as Snowplow, and even GA4 which provides a
| free way to ingest the data into your BigQuery project.
|
| The open-source ELT tools such as dbt can be used to build up
| similar models for product analytics using SQL. That way, you can
| use the default definition of `Power Users` out of the box and
| customize it later on if you need to join different datasets in
| order to calculate the same metrics as you grow.
|
| I'm actually working on a similar product that works on top of
| the data warehouse using SQL, you model your event data (or just
| use integrations) and run ad-hoc funnel & retention queries but I
| must admit that the onboarding process is not seamless as yours.
| :)
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| You nailed it on our persona!
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| I also love the idea of your product, for bigger companies a
| pattern we saw is that it's hard to do entity resolution across
| multiple data sources
| datewithwing wrote:
| Awesome!!! Excited how easy this is
| dennismu wrote:
| okay now i wish we would use segment. what's the main point to
| use segment? (given that you're building your v1 on top of that)
| SigKill9 wrote:
| Segment is a tracker that allows you to pipe the data to any
| tool that supports segment. That way you can change or add
| tools without touching the tracking code in your app or
| service.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Segment is a product that allows you to write events once and
| then allows you to send them to whatever tools you want.
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| If you use amplitude or Mixpanel you're locked in with an SDK
| and it's harder to switch vendors. With segment you can write
| events once and decide afterwards where to send them.
|
| This is useful as your company grows and you start using
| analytics events in BI tools, Marketing tools (like Intercom)
| and product analytics tools (like Amplitude)
| MaxwellM wrote:
| Congratulations, this is exciting. Canned solutions are a good
| way to get young companies from zero to one quickly
| emre wrote:
| Congrats on the launch! Why did you decide to start with Segment?
| Do you plan to add other services in the future? (GA, Firebase
| etc.)
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| We started from Segment because it makes it extremely easy for
| us to onboard companies and it allowed us to focus on building
| the core of our product, our templates!
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| It also makes it easy for non technical folks to get started if
| Segment is already in place
| jay_ru12 wrote:
| Pre-packaged analytics is definitely valued for early on
| businesses that don't have the time or resources to do in-depth
| data exploration. However have you considered ways to slice the
| data at any event property or user trait level, similar to
| Amplitude's group by functionality? Also, I see a lot of value in
| more "pro tips" on recommended segment event payloads and JSON
| structure for the most optimal data piping to this destination.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Great point! I think we forgot to highlight that this is a
| feature in the product. Once you set up a template you can
| slice your results by cohort, traits and accounts (if you're a
| b2b saas company)
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| On the suggested events that's also something we've been
| looking in. Segment defined their spec, which is a standard
| naming convention for events and we were thinking about
| building on top of it
| lessand_ro wrote:
| This looks like the next iteration on analytics products after
| Amplitude and Mixpanel, solves a real problem for founders and is
| one of those "why wasn't this built before" experiences.
| Literally spent days on Amplitude trying to get out a useful
| chart instead of working on my product, now June.so fixes this.
| molsongolden wrote:
| Were you able to produce the useful charts using June?
|
| >Literally spent days on Amplitude trying to get out a useful
| chart instead of working on my product, now June.so fixes this.
|
| This is a very compelling pull quote considering the value of
| your time as a product builder.
| quentindty wrote:
| Congrats in the launch!
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| I was one of those guys thinking Amplitude was all that I needed.
| By trying your tool, I realized that indeed analytics weren't
| supposed to be that hard to setup.
| seapunk wrote:
| Congrats on the launch, Ferruccio!
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| Hope to see you next time we'll go in France.
|
| Do you plan to add alternatives to Segment?
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Oh wow great to see you here :)
|
| We were talking with Freshpaint and have plans to integrate
| with Rudderstack too at some point.
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| In fairness every company we talked to either used Segment or
| Google Tag Manager, or implemented the Amplitude SDK
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| So those integrations might come first
| rjeli wrote:
| Congrats on the launch :)
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