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Heap
Company blog · heapanalytics.com/blog/engineeringprogrammingdata
Heap is the company blog at heapanalytics.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2013, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 37 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Product site for Heap, an analytics tool that automatically captures user actions so they can be queried later. HN comments are mostly job postings and mentions of the product, not its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 37 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Heap by Contentsquare is the only digital insights platform that shows everything users do on your site, revealing the "unknown unknowns" that stay invisible with other tools.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-03-22
- /5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-07-03
- Testing Database Changes the Right Way4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-02-21
- /jobs3 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-09-01
- Building a Live Data Visualization in 4 Days Using Redis Pub/Sub2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-04
- /dashboard/demo2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-22
- /terms2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-19
What Hacker News says?
Heap (YC W13) | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Fulltime | https://heapanalytics.com Help us bring data science to the masses. We're a small team building the analytics engine that powers 6,000 companies and helps them make smarter decisions. Heap automates away the pain of data. Other analytics tools require you to define events upfront and manually instrument code. Instead, Heap automatically captures ever…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything as a story · 339 points
HN discussionHeap | Software Engineer | San Francisco | REMOTE https://heapanalytics.com/jobs Heap is building analytics infrastructure for web and iOS. Unlike other tools, which require you to manually instrument code, Heap captures all user actions automatically, and then lets you answer questions retroactively. Instead of writing a bunch of new tracking code every time you want to answer a question, the data is already in Hea…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down as a story · 178 points
HN discussionHeap (YC W13) | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Fulltime | https://heapanalytics.com Help us bring data science to the masses. We're a small team building the analytics engine that powers 6,000+ companies and helps them make smarter decisions. Heap automates away the pain of data. Other analytics tools require you to define events upfront and manually instrument code. Instead, Heap automatically captures eve…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted How We Found a Missing Scala Class as a story · 85 points
HN discussionHeap | Software Engineer | San Francisco | REMOTE https://heapanalytics.com/jobs Heap is building analytics infrastructure for web and mobile. Unlike other tools, which require you to manually instrument code, Heap captures all user actions automatically, and then lets you answer questions retroactively. Instead of writing a bunch of new tracking code every time you want to answer a question, the data is already in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted Show HN: Heap's iOS Event Visualizer – Set up analytics just by using your app as a story · 25 points
HN discussionHeap Analytics -- https://heapanalytics.com And I run everything through Segment rather than embedding individual trackers directly. Segment either relays data to other services or loads required JS on page load.
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on “The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build”Submitted Building a Live Data Visualization in 4 Days Using Redis Pub/Sub as a story · 12 points
HN discussionHeap | Software Engineer | San Francisco | REMOTE https://heapanalytics.com/jobs Heap is building analytics infrastructure for web and mobile. Unlike other tools, which require you to manually instrument code, Heap captures all user actions automatically, and then lets you answer questions retroactively. Instead of writing a bunch of new tracking code every time you want to answer a question, the data is already in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Heap launches retroactive analytics on Redshift as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI appreciate your willingness to share your perspective here. The problem is that marketing/PR is a profession dedicated to finding whatever just-barely-technically-true weasel wording is required to make what they're getting paid for sound at least "ok" and preferrably "great!" If you have time (definitely not expected) I would like to hear more specifics regarding this aspect of your statement: > We don't do cross…
Comment linking /terms
on “Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains”Submitted Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI am not the OP but from looking at their profile - https://heapanalytics.com/terms you can check there
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on “Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains”Submitted Design Is for Everyone: 10 Principles Anyone Can Use as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHead's up. Depending on the circumstances, multiple updates are vulnerable to a race condition known as "read skew". If a user's status changes while the multiple update transaction is executing, their status can wind up in a bad state. Here's a demonstration: > CREATE TABLE reward_members (id bigint, member_status text); > INSERT INTO reward_members (values (0, 'silver')); > BEGIN; > UPDATE reward_members SET membe…
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on “My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter”Submitted Testing Database Changes the Right Way as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI know that applying on jobs pages is not popular here on HN but, well, sometimes it works. In my opinion, having some projects on GitHub certainly helps, even if they are just hobby projects with no use in real world. So it doesn't mean that you must spend months working on open source projects on the evenings and weekends, hoping to get noticed. Same for technical blog posts. It definitely provides more signal to…
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on “How to find a remote job”Submitted Building a Live Data Visualization in 4 Days Using Redis Pub/Sub as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe demo page ( https://heapanalytics.com/dashboard/demo ) fails in IE8. Is it just me or IE8 is just not considered by web startups anymore ? Sorry to deviate a little but every time I try to look at a "Show HN" in IE8 (work computer), it fails for about 85% of the time. I could understand that some startups heavily depend on latest browsers but what about others ?
Comment linking /dashboard/demo
on “Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything”Submitted Finding a Better Way to Interview Engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWriting effective one sentence product descriptions can be boiled down to: Describe in simple terms a major product feature that either or both: a) solves the biggest pain point for your customer b) makes you the most different from your closest competitor Examples: https://heapanalytics.com : Automatically track all website and app user actions - no coding required https://mailchimp.com/ : Easiest to use email mark…
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on “The Art of Writing One-Sentence Product Descriptions”Submitted How to Structure Permissions in a SaaS App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHeap (YC W13) - Software Engineer - San Francisco or Remote https://heapanalytics.com/jobs === What's Heap? === Heap is taking a new approach to web and iOS analytics: just capture everything. Whereas other analytics tools require you to define events upfront, Heap lets you run instant, retroactive analytics without writing code. === The Role === Your creativity and intelligence are much more important to us than yo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)”Submitted Testing Database Changes the Right Way as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHeap (YC W13) - Software Engineer - San Francisco or Remote https://heapanalytics.com/jobs === What's Heap? === Heap is taking a new approach to web and iOS analytics: just capture everything. Whereas other analytics tools require you to define events upfront, Heap lets you run instant, retroactive analytics without writing code. === The Role === Your creativity and intelligence are much more important to us than yo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)”Submitted Introducing Sources: Insights on the Entire Customer Journey as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> The worst part? Even if you add it immediately, you'll have to wait 2-4 weeks to get a sufficient amount of data. I think this was the problem a product like Heap [1] was designed to solve: just track all user actions, forever, and then assign pipelines after the fact based on what you want to check up on. Don't work at Heap or anything, just love the team and product. [1]: https://heapanalytics.com/
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on “Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail”Submitted Testing Database Changes the Right Way as a story · 1 points
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