Clickpath
Data
analytics query language
SHOW HN2011
25points
8comments
#423of 1,097 in 2011
Top 39%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Design: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting idea, and a GUI sandbox would help learning
From 1 comment
This is an interesting idea, but this query implementation seems awfully complex. What are the chances you are developing a sandbox where a user can construct queries through a…
mikegreenberg on HN
Objections
Query implementation seems complex
From 1 comment
This is an interesting idea, but this query implementation seems awfully complex. What are the chances you are developing a sandbox where a user can construct queries through a…
mikegreenberg on HN
Copy aimed at developers, but analytics buyers are business and marketing people
From 1 comment
Who is your target user? It seems like your copy on your site (for the home page & query language) is geared towards developers but analytics are typically used by the…
benbjohnson on HN
Requests
Visual query editor / GUI sandbox
From 1 comment
Yes, visual query editor is a good idea, we will try to add it. We hoped that people will try out examples from the front page to get used to the language. Also writing small…
petrohi on HN
Event properties and custom attributes on events
From 1 comment
I feel the data analysis in the most efficient way and to learn from the data is the most important aspect to grow. You have mentioned in the point 2 that "We do heavy-lifting of…
shivang on HN
Questions
Who is the target user?
From 1 comment
Who is your target user? It seems like your copy on your site (for the home page & query language) is geared towards developers but analytics are typically used by the…
benbjohnson on HN
Alternatives named
Mixpanel
From 1 comment
isnt is somewhat like event tracking and funnel analysis that mixpanel provides. They do provide a fair bit of flexibility of slicing and dicing of data as well in their UI
shivang on HN