Should the core metric you defined when you started building the product be the same 1, 3 or 10 years into its lifetime? On one hand, your product might change in the early phases, but its core purpose is probably going to remain consistent. And your users are still those same people who are attracted to that core value.
Or are you asking for trouble when you cling onto your early metrics for too long?
Spoiler: it’s asking for trouble.
We have a lot of exciting news to share today – our Series C raise, the progress we’ve made as a company over the last 12 months, and the incredible team we have built in San Francisco and Amsterdam which made all of this possible. But first, I want to share with you the vision that has guided our journey.
At Amplitude, we believe first and foremost in providing the best product analytics. We find the right solution for our users and then figure out how to make it happen on the engineering side. This is in contrast to other analytics services or in-house analytics teams that make compromises on data integrity because it’s easier from a technical perspective. But one of the top reasons that people don’t use analytics to make decisions is that they don’t trust the data. And for good reason — those of us building analytics have historically chosen to sacrifice accuracy when it makes systems easier to build. However, we believe that the role of analytics is changing, and that analytics can and needs to be better than that.
Hackathons are a time honored tradition of many tech companies. They’re a time for everyone to break free from their day to day work and innovate. Here at Amplitude, hackathons have been a great way of bypassing the traditional processes of product development to disrupt our own roadmap, as well as an opportunity to foster cross functional teamwork and relationships. We’ve taken to doing a hackathon at the start of every quarter, and are coming hot off of our third with some fresh ideas and ambitious projects.
Happy July! Our Product Development team has been continuously shipping these past few weeks and we’re excited to share with you the new features and improvements we’ve made to Amplitude. In this product update, you will find information on:
Do you care about growth? Growth of your business, growth of your customer base and growth of your revenue? Then you should care about user retention.
Without retention, your product is a leaky bucket; you can invest as much as you can into user acquisition, and yet still have no long term users, which means no sustainable growth and no means to generate revenue.
One of the major challenges that technology startups will face is scaling up effectively and efficiently. As your user base doubles or triples, how do you ensure that your services still run smoothly and deliver the same user experience? How do you maintain performance while being cost-efficient? Here at Amplitude, our customers have tracked more events in the past year than in the first 3 years of our company combined. As we and our customers grow, we need to continue providing the same if not better service across our platform. Previously, we explained how Nova, our distributed query engine, searches through billions of events and answers 95% of queries in less than 3 seconds. In this blog post, we will focus on our data processing pipeline that ingests and prepares event data for Nova, and explain how we stay cost-effective while our event volume multiplies.