Hi andreas, very cool post. I agree 100% that one should leverage his own database first thing: those are numbers easy to truck and on which you can rely on.<p>Since I am looking for to undertake a medium(ish) OS project in Flask and D3.js I wanted to ask: do you think there might be a need for a good simple app that startups can run on their own servers and can use to segment their database?<p>I know there is a bunch of analytics platforms out there. I work in finance, believe me I know. But I was wondering if there is any particular pain point for startups tracking their db numbers that has not been fixed yet.
I found this a great read and immensely useful, but the styling to pull out words/phrases in bold felt really distracting, and above all unnecessary.<p>Though it might be Chrome on Win 7, which makes fonts generally look awful.
Unfortunately, it is only/nearly only web metrics (he mentions accounting somewhat down the page).<p>No discussion of productivity metrics, burn rates, etc.
I'm surprised more folks don't store data about every page view/action in their database. If you have a lot of data, postgres_fdw makes it easy to scale. Analytics becomes much simpler if all your data is in a single system.