my hackathon project
Data
web analytics
SHOW HN2013
39points
11comments
#638of 1,739 in 2013
Top 37%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
5 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
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Impressive that a quality analytics product is free
From 1 comment
Pretty impressive, we used Quantcast at my previous job and I was really impressed that you guys did for free what other services charge top dollar for. (Nothing wrong with…
samspenc on HN
Real-time lobby display and demographics are useful
From 2 comments
Our demographics are the best out there- you can figure out age, income, race, etc of people coming to your site. We also offer an API where you can call out and receive info on…
schimmy_changa on HNWell, Quantcast is free, unlike kissmetrics. And it offers demographics information about visitor composition (ie age/gender/income/etc breakdown), unlike Google analytics (as…
Tossrock on HN
Objections
Free service means the site feeds data to an ad network
From 1 comment
Nothing is free. Your website becomes a data collecting beacon for their advertising network (hence the awesome demographics). Nothing wrong with that BTW, it's the same reason…
ra on HN
Requests
Real-time API for stats
From 2 comments
This is great. Is there an API available to query the real time stats?
frankacter on HNno, although if you check out the HTTP requests your browser is making to our servers, you might find something interesting ;) again, there is no real-time API as of now, and…
schimmy_changa on HN
Questions
How is the unique visitor count calculated?
From 2 comments
Pretty impressive, we used Quantcast at my previous job and I was really impressed that you guys did for free what other services charge top dollar for. (Nothing wrong with…
samspenc on HN1. Yes, myself and another engineer (@schimmy_changa) spent about 4 months getting it ready for public use after releasing the initial version internally. 2. That's unique…
necubi on HN
How does it differ from Google Analytics and Kissmetrics?
From 1 comment
I'm using Google Analytics for www.planza.com and was thinking on using Kissmetrics. How is Quantcast different?
jeroendesmet on HN
Alternatives named
Google Analytics
From 2 comments
I'm using Google Analytics for www.planza.com and was thinking on using Kissmetrics. How is Quantcast different?
jeroendesmet on HNWell, Quantcast is free, unlike kissmetrics. And it offers demographics information about visitor composition (ie age/gender/income/etc breakdown), unlike Google analytics (as…
Tossrock on HN
Kissmetrics
From 1 comment
I'm using Google Analytics for www.planza.com and was thinking on using Kissmetrics. How is Quantcast different?
jeroendesmet on HN