Congrats Peter! I've been using segment.io with many projects and clients since 2012, and I'm superhappy. Peter also helped me alot. My only concerns are:<p>1. That they will continue to raise prices like many other in the SaaS-space, without grandfathering excisting user/customers.<p>2. That they will keep limiting certain integrations to their premium plans. This prevents me from integrating with them for new "pet"-projects. I make a lot of MVP-type product for clients, that we test the demand for. For such products, I usually integrate with a lot of tools straight away (GA, Mixpanel, Facebook Ads, Adwords, Optimizely). Even though such MVP-project only will get a few hundre visitors, it still requires Segment.io's "Startup"-plan, which is 79usd/month. I think it makes a lot more sense to allow most integrations for the free plan, and rather segment your customer based on API calls. Many of the integrations that require the Startup-plans are really useful for MVP project (Facebook Ads, Adwords, Kissmetrics, Mailchimp etc.). So please segment your customers based on API-calls, not integrations (maybe except for super expensive enterprise software). I know I could just have one "Startup"-account, and add all the MVP projects to that account, but some of my clients want to have their own segment.io account.
Awesome! I'm a huge fan of Segment: <a href="http://playbook.thoughtbot.com/#instrumentation" rel="nofollow">http://playbook.thoughtbot.com/#instrumentation</a><p>We're using this code-level approach in basically every one of our Rails apps these days: <a href="http://robots.thoughtbot.com/segment-io-and-ruby" rel="nofollow">http://robots.thoughtbot.com/segment-io-and-ruby</a><p>Most common integrations: Intercom, Mixpanel, HubSpot, AdWords, Twitter Ads, Google Analytics.<p>Good interview with Peter (Segment founder) from February this year: <a href="http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots/86" rel="nofollow">http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots/86</a>
Excellent news! We've used them at Spreedly for a long time now (a lot of similarities in some ways) The biggest benefit for us is it helped us run MixPanel and KissMetrics side by side for an extended period of time before finally deciding. I think too there is an <i>enterprise</i> API that will be exposed allowing us to send the raw data to some custom tools?
Why drop the .io and spend cash on the .com?I'd guess it was somewhere in the 10k-60k range...<p>Does the tld really matter? My hunch is that .io is perceived as a toy product TLD and .com is where 'real' business is done?<p>This kind of sentiment sucks though because other startups probably see it as well and will needlessly shell out cash for a .com.
Congrats guys. As a Segment partner, we love that people can "take the Pepsi challenge" in terms of other analytics platforms. Helps prevent lock in and forces companies to continue to push value and differentiation vs relying on "ugh I guess we'll keep XYZ because ripping out the integration is such a pain"
Segment is great -- the team helped me with a complex mobile app issue, and Peter personally came to my office, opened up code, and helped solve it. Segment is providing stellar developer support and service to me and my client. Congratulations!
Big congrats to Peter, Raphel and the whole team! A solid service and solves a real problem that developers go through every time they start a new project & update their existing ones. Excited to see what you come up with next.
I wonder how much of that 15m was spent to buy the .com domain? Interestingly the domain was registered by DomainsByProxy, why is a real company hiding their contact info behind DomainsByProxy?<p>That being said, I've used them for a little over a year and a half now and am quite pleased. The "one stop shop" for integrating all the analytics and email stuff is great
Congrats guys! We at Amplitude are very lucky you guys exist.<p>For quite a while, a majority of our new inbounds mentioned that they first saw Amplitude through the list of tools at Segment. A lot of companies see Segment as a recommendation platform- so they’ll go to them to get a list of vendors. It's definitely huge for us that you guys are around.
Congrats guys! Brings continued and much needed attention to help app developers more easily operationalize their data and connect with partners.<p>The ecosystem of developer tools is expanding fast and guys like Segment (and us- mParticle) are helping lead the way for app developers to move faster and build better apps.<p>This is good for everyone!!!
Congratulations Segment team! As I've said to multiple folks, working with Customer.io through Segment removes "Integration risk"... the risk of spending a bunch of time integrating and then hating the service.<p>I'm thrilled for your progress and excited for what your team does in the future!
Huge! It's always been a pleasure to work with Segment, and they've made our lives at Amplitude a lot easier. Glad to see that their hard work is being valued :)<p>Congrats to the team!
How is this service better than 100s of marketing companies out there ?
All you do is track people without their consent , steal data in un-ethical manner.
Anyone can raise millions these days. What a time !