Congrats on your launch, and looks really exciting! I'm curious how this compares to tools like Snowplow [1]? I guess Jitsu comes with more sources and destinations out of the box?
I really like this, congratulations on the launch. And this is such a huge space that there's definitively room for other options (aside from Segment).
I'm a little bit out of the loop in this event processing space. Do you think Jitsu could replace lower-level event processing implementations as Kafka/Kinesis? Or this is thought for more "high level" marketing stuff.
Hey congrats on the launch, clearly a lot of thought and effort went into this. I'm pretty new to this space, and maybe this is a dumb question but how does this differ from Mixpanel? Would I use this for something different?
How do I scale jitsu if the load from my app servers become too big? Will adding more jitsu nodes trample the database nodes that jitsu writes to? How should I plan capacity for a jitsu deployment in a multi node scenario, and what should I take into consideration when scaling it?
This looks really cool. I'm keen to try it.
It looks like it might play well with my current logging system of choice, Seq [0].
Do you support inbound webhooks? I can see webhooks as a destination but not as a source?
Are there any examples on how the resultant SQL tables look like in postgres or clickhouse for a given event schema? I'd like to know how generic it is per event type (is it sth like (event id, blob), or tries to decompose each event field into a column - what about nested objects then, etc.)). Knowing this would greatly improve my understanding on reusability of jitsu for various event-collection tasks I may have.
Can we expect react native integration any time soon ?
Congrats on the launch, much needed! Would love to see if it's possible for you to connect to https://june.so for easy to use product analytics.
Are you following the same tracking convention spec as Segment?
> We help companies collect events from their apps, websites, and APIs and send them to databases.
For those who don't know what "Segment" is (like me) - this Jitsu thing seems to only be relevant to web-based/web-oriented apps.
This is super cool, congrats!
The website is heavy on Segment comparisons (which makes sense). However, you're not the only open source Segment alternative, so how do you view yourselves in comparison to e.g. RudderStack or Snowplow?
Many of your integrations talk about “syncing” rather than event collection, which to me sounds like what Fivetran is doing. Does that distinction make sense and how are you thinking about that?
Adding on to the previous comment, how does this compare to rudderstack?
Congrats on launching and thanks for making it easy to deploy using docker! I'd like to suggest that you make it available as a 1-click app on DigitalOcean as well.
Is https://meltano.com/ a more general version of this ?
i am wondering how this compares to it?
Congrats on the launch!
Just wondering, do you have any plans to support CrateDB?
It supports SQL and understands PG protocol - perhaps supporting Postgres kinda already makes it close.
Congrats on the launch! We've started using the open source version for one of the tools we are building (CLI anonymized telemetry) and it looks good so far- thank for the great product. It was very easy and straightforward to get started, deploy and start collecting things (into BigQuery).
Overall, I like this recent trend a lot - more companies are building open-source, lightweight, GDPR compatible analytics, chats (e.g. Papercups). I hope there will be good ways to monetize and sustain this. Wish you all the best, folks!
CTO at Vertica here. How can we make sure Vertica is one of the DWH destinations in Jitsu?
Good job guys. Amazing work!
It was fun watching you grow Jitsu and love the way you provide support!
Do you support something similar as ajs_aid url param id override in Segment?
Great story. How do you feel Jitsu compares to Rudderstack?
what value does the airbyte / elt integration provide? Surely I could just run etls on airflow or similar on tables that jitsu generates?
Sweet! Great to see an OSS alternative to Segment.
Why would I use this instead of Airbyte?
I miss the eventnative name :)
Great product! Lovely team!
The black banners at the top and bottom of your website breaks scrolling on mobile.
Great job!
Great work! It's funny that YC funded Segment as well as two direct Segment competitors (RudderStack is the other one, though I think they initially started with a different idea an pivoted to that afterwards), though given the size of YC this is probably expected and Segment is probably large enough to "deserve" some good smaller competition.
As someone who also builds an open-core product (though not directly modeled after an existing closed-source product) I really hope this kind of business model will become more accepted.
Please consider posting some form of this as a blog post as well, I love to hear about product inceptions.
HN doesn’t allow lesser users with lesser eyesight to read light grey on beige self text, unfortunately.
Congrats on the launch. Unrelated to the actual software, are any of you actual Jiu-Jitsu grapplers? If not, why'd you go with the name Jitsu?
Congrats on the launch!
Kudos on the work done and I hope you the best of luck.
A little note of advise: I wouldn’t start my company description as “the Y of X” or “the Y alternative to X”.
It’s okay to mention if you are similar to another well known company, but don’t use it to describe your company, specially not in the first line.
> Jitsu solves the AdBlocker problem...
This line alone is enough to infuriate me. So I am unable to block spying and data collection now?
I don't understand why we are still praising spyware tools?
The name is 1 letter off of an already existing opensource project: Jitsi
Congrats on the launch!
Noticed a typo on jitsu.com - DHW should probably be DWH.
Congrats on your launch. Great to see more innovation in this space. Segment deserves some serious competition.
-RudderStack team.
Great product. I'm a frequent user of Segment from the early days and have been curious to see when an open-source competitor comes around that will match feature-for-feature.
Thoughts:
1. You've got most major ads sources that I care about, but it seems that there is a higher bar to implementation. Segment lets me just plug in Google & FB ads and dump the entire shebang right into my data warehouse. A lot of marketing teams are going to have less time/resources to deal with implementation so smoothing this out is key.
2. Functions are an underrated and highly powerful feature of Segment. The ability to operate on data in transit, create custom connectors that "just run" (akin to CF Workers) and the like is a big selling point for more technically advanced marketing teams. It doesn't seem present here and that would hold a customer such as myself back on bigger scope projects.
3. I'd love to see a "compare us to your segment usage" where I select my data sources and destinations to see what you cover vs. Segment in a specific use case (and possibly pricing advantages on a self-hosted vs. non). This would make it much easier to sell through procurement and devops for new customers that are switching.
4. There are going to be a lot of people like me that are soon to start fresh in terms of marketing stack, so going after people before they select Segment might also be a play.
Looking forward to seeing where you all take this. Good luck!