Lifetime Mixpanel.com Startup Plan - $17
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Why? Because often it's a desperate move done by a company to generate cash flow. It's not ultimately sustainable either. Theoretically you could be providing that same service 10+ years down the track. You might (reasonably) assume some attrition in the time but you get my point.
Too many times I've seen this done as a company's last move before filing for bankruptcy. Disclaimer: I'm speaking generally here. I know nothing of Mixpanel's circumstances (financial or otherwise) and certainly don't mean to impugn them, their management team, their founders or their employees.
Providing a free service is different. Typically this is done as a "freemium" model where you hope a certain percentage of free users will later convert to paying users. People know this and have a different level of expectation than for something they've paid for, even if that something is a nominal one-off fee (you and they may also disagree about what constitutes "nominal").
As a paid service, due to consumer protection, etc you may have to meet a higher standard but IANAL.
I think that in this case that's not what's happening. These kind of deals(a la groupon) are to generate awareness about the brand, and hopefully future clients, and not to generate money.
Sorry for the delay, anyone who bought it and hasn't heard back from us yet.
I would just like to confirm the 500,000 data points as AppSumo now states that the offer is for only for 100,000 per month.
I've just checked my Appsumo account and see that the startup plan has been downgraded to basic. Will customers after the 1000 mark get anything or are you guys planning to refund?
(I think also think it is wrong of you guys to modify invoices which is supposed to be a record and agreement of a transaction.)
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For other people on the fence, I'd suggest getting this now while you still can! I loved using Mixpanel in the past (although, I did think it was a bit pricey ;-)). The fact that I could send in events from my server made it far superior to GA. It meant that I could, for example, build funnels for emails I was sending out (send -> open -> click -> completion). Their HTTP API was easy enough to use that I wrote my own lisp (drakma-based) library to interact with it in under a few hours.
They used to have some scaling pains (multiple days delay on getting data processed), but that was all fixed towards the end. The support is great too - I got Suhail on the phone instantly when I was having trouble with something.
Hmmm this is a bit worrying.. rather than just stopping tracking they just charge you more
//cofounder @ mixpanel
Did Noah do the "$1500 value" thingy on appsumo.com? I'm interested in where that figure came from, it doesn't seem to make any sense if this is a one time fee for the $150/m account.
Note: all this assumes noahkagan is from appsumo.
There's a different problem now, though.
I have on account, but I'm not a customer. I wonder if this deal applies to me too.
Noah's on HN though, perhaps he can clarify?
Although I have to wonder why $17? Seems rather arbitrary.
The majority of website owners refuse to pay for analytics, and instead opt for GA. I think we're seeing the effects of this with heavy discounts for low traffic sites from both KissMetrics and MixPanel.
For $17 though I'm still a happy camper.
Enough to handle something like 20 points/events per minute