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Keen
Company blog · keen.io/blog · on HN as dorkitudedatastartups
Keen is the company blog at keen.io, writing about data and startups. Since 2012, 63 different Hacker News readers have linked it 187 times, most often “Keen IO - The API for Custom Analytics”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Keen's blog and docs as analytics references, often inside job posts. The pieces praised are a post on being rejected at YC Startup School and guides on event data modeling and retention analysis.
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.
Keen is a fully managed event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. Start streaming in minutes with 30 days free.
Most-linked posts?
- Keen IO - The API for Custom Analytics8 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2013-05-10
- Keen IO - The API for Custom Analytics5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-12-02
- How I negotiated my startup compensation4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-02-24
- Record every action your users take3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-04-04
- Analytics as a service3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-04
- Apache Kafka vs. Amazon Kinesis to Build a High Performance Distributed System2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-14
- How are you structuring your startup?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-27
- Lessons from a Failed YC Pitch with Paul Graham2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-14
- /docs/data-visualization/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-08
- Permission to Fail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-15
What Hacker News says?
Keen IO ( https://keen.io/ ) | San Francisco Bay Area + Remote USA | Full Time ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = Turn Explorers into Discoverers. We value: introspection, continuous learning, personal agency, honesty, and empathy. It's a work in progress! ----- Platform Generalist Engineers ----- (SF Bay Area or…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Permission to Fail as a story · 347 points
HN discussionKeen IO ( https://keen.io/ ) | San Francisco Bay Area + Remote USA | Full Time ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = Turn Explorers into Discoverers. We value: introspection, continuous learning, personal agency, honesty, and empathy. It's a work in progress! We recently raised our Series B and are looking to grow o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted How LinkedIn Just Made Ten Million People Feel Special as a story · 110 points
HN discussionKeen IO ( https://keen.io/ ) | San Francisco Bay Area + Remote USA | Full Time ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = Turn Explorers into Discoverers. We value: introspection, continuous learning, personal agency, honesty, and empathy. It's a work in progress! ----- Data Storage Engineers ----- (SF Bay Area or Remote…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Lessons from a Failed YC Pitch with Paul Graham as a story · 94 points
HN discussion----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = Turn Explorers into Discoverers. We value: introspection, continuous learning, personal agency, honesty, and empathy. It's a work in progress! ----- Platform Product Engineers ----- (SF Bay Area or Remote US only) Keen IO is seeking engineers to join our team. We build and nurtu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted What CTOs Fear Most as a story · 88 points
HN discussion----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = Turn Explorers into Discoverers. We value: introspection, continuous learning, personal agency, honesty, and empathy. It's a work in progress! ----- Platform Product Engineers ----- (SF Bay Area or Remote US only) Keen IO is seeking engineers to join our team. We build and nurtu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Sexism in Tech: A Good Apology is Better than No Mistakes as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSF Bay Area or Remote || Keen IO || https://keen.io/ ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth. Some things we believe in: • Honesty & empathy, introspection, Distributed innovation, the importance of laughter & relationships, play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collaborator…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted Joining A Startup: 1,000 Terrors, 9,000 Delights as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSF Bay Area or Remote || Keen IO || https://keen.io/ ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth. Some things we believe in: • Honesty & empathy, introspection, Distributed innovation, the importance of laughter & relationships, play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collaborator…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted The Highest Form of Flattery as a story · 33 points
HN discussionKeen IO | San Francisco Bay Area + Remote USA | Full Time ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth. Some things we believe in: -Honesty & empathy -Introspection -Distributed innovation -The importance of laughter & relationships -Play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collabor…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted How To Write Good Blog Posts as a story · 32 points
HN discussionKeen IO | San Antonio, TX | Solutions Architect | Full-time | ONSITE | https://keen.io We acquired Keen last December and have been carefully growing the team and getting the product in shape since then. We started with ramping up engineering over the spring/summer and we just finished staffing up our CS org. We've got enough organic demand that a Solutions Architect is our next critical hire (our chief platform eng…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”Submitted Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates) as a story · 31 points
HN discussionKeen IO | San Francisco Bay Area + Remote USA | Full Time ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth. Some things we believe in: -Honesty & empathy -Introspection -Distributed innovation -The importance of laughter & relationships -Play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collabor…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)”Submitted Analytics as a service as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSF Bay Area or Remote || Keen IO || https://keen.io/ ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth. Some things we believe in: • Honesty & empathy, introspection, Distributed innovation, the importance of laughter & relationships, play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collaborator…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)”Submitted The dark side of HackerNews: negativity at best, suppression at worst as a story · 27 points
HN discussionKeen IO ( https://keen.io/ ) | San Francisco Bay Area + Remote USA | Full Time ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = Turn Explorers into Discoverers. We value: introspection, continuous learning, personal agency, honesty, and empathy. It's a work in progress! ----- Data Storage Engineers ----- (SF Bay Area or Remote…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)”Submitted Charts on Grids – Responsive Dashboard Templates with Bootstrap as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSF Bay Area or Remote || Keen IO || https://keen.io/ ----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth. Some things we believe in: -Honesty & empathy -Introspection -Distributed innovation -The importance of laughter & relationships -Play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collaborators…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)”Submitted Show HN: How to install Keen IO Analytics into Node.js apps in mere seconds as a story · 18 points
HN discussion----- About Keen IO ----- Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale. Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth. Some things we believe in: -Honesty & empathy -Introspection -Distributed innovation -The importance of laughter & relationships -Play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collaborators. ----- Platform & DevOps Engineers ----- (SF Bay Are…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)”Submitted 17 CTOs Share Their Greatest Fears as a story · 18 points
HN discussionA few more reads on this subject that I have collected from HN: * http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ * http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro... * https://keen.io/blog/29904565692/how-i-negotiated-my-startup...
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on “Salary negotiations for techies (2011)”Submitted Post-mortem: the one where we accidentally DDOS'd ourselves as a story · 15 points
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