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Amplitude
Company blog · amplitude.com/blog · on HN as sskatesdatabusiness
Amplitude is the company blog at amplitude.com, writing about data and business. Since 2014, 67 different Hacker News readers have linked it 132 times, most often “Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory – 3 Years Later”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Linked for product analytics content on user behaviour, retention, cohorts, causation versus correlation, and agent analytics. Most comments discuss the company's product, pricing, and hiring.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
From analytics to feedback to code, Amplitude brings AI into every step of building self-improving products. Start free with 2M events per month.
Most-linked posts?
- /8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-07-23
- /pricing5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-08-27
- /4 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-01-23
- Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory – 3 Years Later4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-19
- /careers3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-02-01
- /privacy2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-05
- Nova: The Architecture for Understanding User Behavior2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-25
- Amplitude (YC W12) Launches a CDP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-25
- /blog/employee-equity-is-broken-heres-our-fix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-29
- Trial or Freemium? Get the Best of Both with a Reverse Trial2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-04
What Hacker News says?
Here is the update to this article, 3 years later: https://amplitude.com/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-featu...
Comment linking /blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory-3-years-later
on “Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)”Submitted 10M events a month, free as a story · 234 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build the best products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart, fast, and easy-to-use analytics, not the complex data science stacks or surface-level vanity metrics of today. We're a 55-person company (15 engineers), and we raised our Ser…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Employee Equity Is Broken – Here's Our Fix as a story · 84 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build the best products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart, fast, and easy-to-use analytics, not the complex data science stacks or surface-level vanity metrics of today. We're a 55-person company (15 engineers), and we raised our Ser…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Scaling Analytics at Amplitude as a story · 67 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build better products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart and easy-to-use analytics, not the complex data science stacks or surface-level vanity metrics of today. We're a 100-person company (< 20 engineers), and we raised our Series C…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted A Distributed Real-Time Data Store with Flexible Deduplication as a story · 46 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build better products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart and easy-to-use analytics, not the complex data science stacks or surface-level vanity metrics of today. We're a 150-person company (20 engineers), and we raised our Series C la…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Companies Overspend on Marketing, Underspend on Product as a story · 28 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build better products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart and easy-to-use analytics, not the complex data science stacks or surface-level vanity metrics of today. We're a 180-person company (30 engineers), and we raised our Series C la…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Nova AutoML: A New Architecture for Predictive Insights as a story · 19 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build better products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart, easy-to-use analytics that helps you make good decisions and invest in the right areas. We're a 200-person company (30 engineers), and we raised our Series C last summer. We've…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Analysis of how Covid-19 impacted product analytics usage as a story · 16 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build better products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart and easy-to-use analytics, not the complex data science stacks or surface-level vanity metrics of today. We're a 100-person company (< 20 engineers), and we raised our Series C…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Amplitude (YC W12) Launches a CDP as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build the best products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart, fast, and easy-to-use analytics, not the complex data science stacks or surface-level vanity metrics of today. We're a 70-person company (15 engineers), and we raised our Ser…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted Show HN: Free Geo (SEO for LLM) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE We help companies build the best products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart, fast, and easy-to-use analytics, not the complex data science stacks or surface-level vanity metrics of today. We're a 60-person company (15 engineers), and we raised our Ser…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted A Pledge to Increase Fairness in Amplitude's Machine Learning Systems as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://amplitude.com We help companies build better products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart, easy-to-use analytics that helps you make good decisions and invest in the right areas. We're a 400-person company (60 engineers), and we raised our Series E last year. We've gotten incredi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Amplitude and Statsig Partnership as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics - San Francisco, CA We're hiring backend, frontend, devops, mobile, and test engineers who are looking to work at an exciting early stage startup (11 people) that has grown very quickly over the last 6 months and is about to go through a ton more growth over the next year. We're very generous with salary and equity because we have a high bar for hiring ( https://amplitude.com/team ). Amplitude is…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)”Submitted We 3×'d PRs in 6 months, and how you can too as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAmplitude | San Francisco | Full-Time | On-Site Amplitude builds analytics tools that enable product teams to understand user behavior and use that to improve their products. We're a Series C company with significant revenue, but our engineering team is still quite small and there is a lot of opportunity for ownership. One of the things that we pride ourselves on is that everyone stays close to the customer - engine…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted Nova: The Architecture for Understanding User Behavior as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAmplitude Analytics | Backend Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area At Amplitude, we’re building analytics that helps our customers use data to build better products and drive growth. We area a Series C, $56 million funded leader in product analytics, backed by top VCs -IVP, Battery Ventures, Benchmark, and YCombinator. We are the #1 product analytics company with over 20,000 teams around the world using us to grow thei…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted Seven Deadly Sins of DevX as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAmplitude | Full Time | San Francisco | ONSITE Front-End Engineer We're looking for talented front end engineers to help build out our analytics offering, engineers who aren't afraid to tackle the challenges of building out features for an evolving product. Our front end stack is constantly evolving to keep up with best-in-class technology. We're currently building our UI using React and Flux. As we grow, we believe…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)”Submitted OpenAI Sells Statsig to Amplitude as a story · 2 points
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