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RudderStack
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RudderStack is the company blog at rudderstack.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2020, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 94 times, most often “Why RudderStack Used Postgres over Apache Kafka for It's Streaming Engine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention RudderStack as an open-source alternative to Segment for routing customer data to multiple tools, and link its homepage and guides on replacing Google Analytics 4 and loading data from Google Sheets.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
RudderStack brings agentic power to the entire customer data lifecycle. Collect, unify, active, and govern your data from one warehouse-native platform.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-24
- Why RudderStack Used Postgres over Apache Kafka for It's Streaming Engine2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
- Identity Resolution (a.k.a. transitive closure in Graph) using SQL2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-04
- Why It’s Hard for Engineering to Support Marketing2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-16
- Churn Prediction Using BigQuery-ML and RudderStack2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-20
- Why Twilio Acquired Segment2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-11
- Our Product Vision for a Developer-First CDP2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-28
- We Optimized the RudderStack JavaScript SDK2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-21
- Ten companies you never expected to collect your data2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-15
- Engineering Teams Use RudderStack to Support Marketing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-22
What Hacker News says?
RudderStack ( https://rudderstack.com/ ) founder here. We have a different pricing vector (event-volume vs monthly-users/MTUs of Segment) so it's not directly comparable. Having said that, RudderStack can be much cheaper in two scenarios 1) Low # of events per users. For example, if you have a lot of anonymous users who don't do many events and leave. In this case, you may have a lot of MTUs but low number of events…
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on “Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B”Submitted Why Twilio Acquired Segment as a story · 81 points
HN discussionI know of three (all OSS) * https://www.posthog.com/ (more mixpanel alternative, can auto-track events too) * https://snowplowanalytics.com/ * https://rudderstack.com/ (explicitly say it's Segment alternative)
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on “Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B”Submitted From Show HN to Series A in One Year: Reflections from Our Founder as a story · 50 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: I am the founder of RudderStack ( https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server ) With our open-source data collection framework like RudderStack (an alternative to Segment), dumping data into a warehouse (Redshift/BigQuery/Druid etc) and sticking another open-source visualization layer on top (e.g. like SuperSet), it is possible to put together an alternative to Google Analytics. One of our early users di…
Comment linking /blog/open-source-analytics/
on “Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics”Submitted Launching RudderStack Cloud Free Tier as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIndeed. Even when you have the full identity graph in warehouse and just want to assign a cannonical-ID (by doing a transitive closure), it is not easy in SQL. We wrote a blog on it (sorry for the shameless plug) https://rudderstack.com/blog/identity-graph-and-identity-res... Creating the ID graph is a next level problem altogether!!. How do you know a record in Salesforce is the same as the anonymous visitor on you…
Comment linking /blog/identity-graph-and-identity-resolution-in-sql/
on “Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure”Submitted An open-source analytics stack using RudderStack and Apache SuperSet as a story · 13 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: Haven't looked at Jitsu in depth so my understanding below may be limited. Reading through their comment below - "Jitsu can be used for any kind of data while Segment compatibility is just a thin layer on top". I am guessing they have built a generic event API that can be used to send any JSON payload while RudderStack (like Segment) has a opinionated view of events - e.g. there has to be a userID (or an…
Comment linking /docs/rudderstack-api/api-specification/rudderstack-ecommerce-events-specification/
on “Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative”Submitted Why Twilio Acquired Segment? (by RudderStack) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI think yes, all these products -> https://segment.com , https://rudderstack.com , https://snowplowanalytics.com , https://fivetran.com , https://stitchdata.com , https://www.alooma.com , https://singer.io , https://www.holistics.io , can work as a pipeline, but some have more features than others. This is a bit simplifying answer.
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on “Amazon AppFlow”Submitted How Twilio Is Shaping Segment: Lessons Learned from the Signal Conference as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHi Dan, Impressive profile. I think you would be a great fit for us. Can you take a look at https://www.rudderstack.com/ and shoot me an email at chandra@rudderstack.com. We can discuss further. We can connect on linkedin too ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandrashekar-v-b37861a/ ) Chandra Shekar
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022)”Submitted Our Product Vision for a Developer-First CDP as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAlways a bit frustrating to hit a pricing page and not see pricing. Please take time to provide at least some info https://rudderstack.com/pricing/
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)”Submitted Overcoming the Limitations of Client-Side Form Tracking with Webhooks as a story · 7 points
HN discussionOh wow, this reminds of Hightouch ( https://hightouch.io ) and Rudder ( https://rudderstack.com ). It's interesting that all of these are positioned around data warehouses, which is generally very messy to deal with.
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on “Grouparoo: Open-source app to sync customer data with 3rd party tools”Submitted Why Your Data Warehouse Should Be the Foundation of Your CDP as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYes, there are tools such as PostHog[0] that you can deploy on your servers. You can have events, users, funnels, etc. It shows you how people are moving around. It shows you clicks, page views, page leaves, etc. It shows you retention charts. You can also use the client to create custom events. When you move things to "the cloud". Take a look at Sentry[1] for error monitoring. It'll show you errors and exceptions a…
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on “Ask HN: How to data collect to understand product usage”Submitted Lessons from scaling PostgreSQL queues to 100k events per second as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou might wanna check out Rudderstack or Stitchdata: https://rudderstack.com/guides/how-to-load-data-from-google-... https://www.stitchdata.com/blog/google-sheets-stitch-easy-sy... And here's a reverse path from Census as well: https://www.getcensus.com/sync/redshift-to-google-sheets
Comment linking /guides/how-to-load-data-from-google-sheets-to-redshift
on “Ask HN: Spreadsheet like tools that sync to Redshift”Submitted RudderStack and Mixpanel Announce Partnership Advancing Product Analytics as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIn bigger setups, all you want is a data collector and router so that you can feed the data into multiple destinations, depending on the use case. Analytics is just one. Example: https://www.rudderstack.com/ & https://www.rudderstack.com/replace-google-analytics-4-guide...
Comment linking /replace-google-analytics-4-guide/
on “Google Analytics 4 Has Me So Frustrated, We Built Our Own Analytics Service”Submitted Thank you HN for helping us reach $21M Series-A milestone as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRudderstack claims to be a GA alternative [1] and accepts server-side data allowing this to be a 1st party integration skipping the consent complexity. Any thoughts on this one? It also made it to the Thoughtworks Tech Radar [2]. [1] https://www.rudderstack.com/replace-google-analytics-4-guide... [2] https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/radar/platforms/ruddersta...
Comment linking /replace-google-analytics-4-guide/
on “Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy”Submitted The future of data pipeline tools must include better transformations than ETL as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRudderStack has come a long way since our Github repo got posted on HN in 2019 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081756 ) and we made our first Show HN post in 2020 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637302 ). We recently launched a new product called Profiles to solve the technical challenges around identity resolution — detailed here on our blog ( https://www.rudderstack.com/blog/why-it-s-hard-to-buil…
Comment linking /blog/why-it-s-hard-to-build-a-360-degree-view-of-your-customer/
on “Show HN: RudderStack Profile Builder – warehouse native customer 360 profiles”Submitted RudderStack Warehouse Action Unlocks Data in Your Warehouse as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRudderStack has come a long way since our Github repo got posted on HN in 2019 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081756 ) and we made our first Show HN post in 2020 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637302 ). We recently launched a new product called Profiles to solve the technical challenges around identity resolution — detailed here on our blog ( https://www.rudderstack.com/blog/why-it-s-hard-to-buil…
Comment linking /blog/why-it-s-hard-to-build-a-360-degree-view-of-your-customer/
on “Show HN: RudderStack Profile Builder – warehouse native customer 360 profiles”Submitted Show HN: The Open Source Story – Open Sourcing RudderStack Blog and Docs as a story · 5 points
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