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If you're open to suggestions, right now I feel that there's a huge market opportunity for a SaaS Splunk killer with more reasonable pricing. Having a great analytics UI is 1/4 of the problem there.

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I totally agree - but don't you think there are bigger fish to fry than Splunk, i.e. mixpanel?

Mixpanel is a great tool, and I think their niche is gaining popularity because start ups want an easy way to see their data. Data visualization is very interesting to me. Have you started working on a mobile component?

If you mean gathering data from mobile devices my answer is: Any cloud-based app or any mobile app that has a cloud component can leverage the RESTful API. Also see, http://www.localytics.com/ for a vanilla mobile analytics solution.

If your question is 'is the dashboard mobile device viewable' then: Not really. Most of the javascript that powers the dashboard isn't touch-screen compatible, sadly.

Probably, but with a good pricing model and an easy to use system (maybe a ssl-wrapped caching proxy or an ssl vpn) to send the logs over the wire for processing and storage would attract the attention of the devops world (which is worth about $3.50) Then you could just tell everybody, "it's like splunk, but in the cloud, and affordable". Fame, fortune, and the critical logs of hundreds of new startups would quickly be yours.

Thanks- very compelling feedback!

On that note, you might think about talking to troyd (a HN user) who is working on a similar app at http://cloverapp.com/ ..

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