MixPanel (YC S09); my mini review
After spotting the mixpanel logo at the bottom of HN I decided to give it a spin on a reasonably serious site to see what it can do. I've got some issues with GA that I can't seem to resolve so I figured maybe MixPanel can replace them. First impression is that it looks really neat and simple, but on my browser (ff 3.01) the form fields all somehow manage to hang outside the containing blocks. The sign up process is very quick, but there is no email verification, which is a bit of a pain because it could mean that people use a fake address leading to emails dumped on unsuspecting bystanders. After signing up you get a secret token and a skeleton piece of javascript that you can flesh out to track variables that are important. This is mostly a manual operation, you insert the relevant bits in strategic spots on your site, 'instrumenting' it so MixPanel can keep track of what is happening.
Why it failed
After spotting the mixpanel logo at the bottom of HN I decided to give it a spin on a reasonably serious site to see what it can do. I've got some issues with GA that I can't seem to resolve so I figured maybe MixPanel can replace them. First impression is that it looks really ne
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jacquesm
- Ended
- 2009
- Source
- hackernews