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Great post Ben, curious if you collected that list over time or just got on an inspired roll :)

I literally just published a post that tries to answer this question :) https://www.airpair.com/meteor/posts/choose-meteor-for-your-...

We're getting past that, the issue is top-of-mind for Meteor and community continues to work on better solution, for example https://meteorhacks.com/meteor-server-sider-rendering-for-se...

You and me both :) Ironically, even analytics companies can have cobbler's shoes syndrome. Good analytics is a journey, not a destination.

Wow - very cool :)

Once you learn about Snowplow's canonical event model (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Canonical-event-mo...) or read Keen's data modeling guide (https://keen.io/docs/event-data-modeling/event-data-intro/) you quickly realize all the stuff that you haven't been recording :)

glad i pasted this here, found a typo :)

Totally agree - here's a quote from our YC Application Summary that we're submitting today...

"Mid-stage product owners that rely on all-in-one user user analytics platforms eventually outgrow the simplicity of those tools. Many choose to build their own user events datawarehouse at this point."

Sounds like I'm describing you personally ;)

Suprisingly, no issues w/ Polymer in production. The Google guys didn't lie to us when they said "sure, you should use it in production."

Honestly we get asked who our designer is all the time, and I say "it was Google. A whole team of world-class designers at Google."

Thanks Kyle — been wanting to share with you guys all the crap we've been doing for some time, finally found some time to write some of it down this week.

I'll think about some API ideas, but I'm not too shy about firing over ideas as they come to me. You've got great support people, the stuff always gets done.

Great guide Mark — it's important to get event data right, or else it really limits the analysis you can do. I'm always so sad when I discover bad data.

We considered building on Mixpanel (and still are open to it) — we were 100% certain that Keen IO had the API we needed, and we liked that their business model was in line with what we're doing.

Also, I was worried that since Mixpanel is somewhat of a competitor, it wouldn't be wise to use them as a foundation.

Heh — I actually have never met the man. Someday...

We're also working on making space travel free and open too.

First cohort analysis, next... space travel.

Heh Alex — the Meteor posse has arrived to this thread (I'm a big Meteor fan too!) I'll echo some of the others, that any issues with Meteor being ready for primetime don't have to do with the issues you cited, but more around being unproven to scale at high traffic (also not disproven).

I've been using Meteor since early 2013 on all my web projects, and for me the core team goes to the correct feature depth — there's 4000+ packages on Atomosphere — it'd be really hard to determine how deep they should go pulling things into the core.

Oh wow, you're right... yuck! gotta fix that.

Nice post Josh — seems like Meteor has gained a lot of momentum and it's good to rehash exactly what it is, there are definitely misconceptions out there.

yeah it's not the right answer anymore for early-stage startups. Mixpanel seems to have better structure. Keen.io has startup-friendly pricing, but you have to roll your own front-end.

it's production ready — however it's still very early in the life of the framework, so expect the unexpected.

YES! That was it. Thanks so much.

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Wow — very in depth article by Tom Coleman. As we get more growing Meteor apps out in the wild, scaling become a larger concern. Good to see Meteor Development Group focusing so much attention on it, and great tools from the community too.

Yeah — famo.us is a javascript tool like D3, jQuery, etc. So I think use cases are more centered around new and interesting interface concepts, that could be applied within a wide variety of specific apps.

hmm - i don't see the author picture flash - i'm chrome 31 on osx mavericks but i don't see how that'd be very different :(

curious what browser you're using?

I actually recommend "Running Lean" by Ash Maurya as a more practical guide to the analytics.

My switch from Microsoft to the world of open source 8 years ago was like taking the red pill — absolutely transformation in how I thought about and now build software.

Doesn't seem to be working for me - just get message "we dispatched the elves to get your trip details, hold tight"

Thanks for sharing Andy — I'm preparing a talk "Applying Lean Startup to the Enterprise" and will reference your post :)

Great looking Ghost blog too, btw.

@neya have you tried Meteor yet? I am a Rails dev since 0.8 — but since moving to Meteor the past few months, I'll not go back to Rails.

I have more faith in open-source community to fix warts vs. closed-source Microsoft. I did ASP.NET back when it launched, and Microsoft wasn't setup to really listen to developers like the Meteor team is.