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I built an analytics tool that tells you what's broken instead of showing more charts
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I built an analytics tool that tells you what's broken instead of showing more charts

via Dev.to WebdevAlex Koval1mo ago

Six months ago I had a Mixpanel setup with 140+ custom events. Nobody on the team knew what half of them tracked. The engineer who set them up had left. The PM spent two weeks building dashboards before making any decision. And after all that work, the dashboards told us what happened. Never why . Never what to do next . So I started building something different. The problem I kept running into Every analytics tool I've used follows the same pattern: you track events, you build funnels, you stare at charts, you try to figure out what they mean. The interpretation part — the "so what?" — is always left to you. And if you're a small team shipping fast, you don't have time to be a data analyst on top of everything else. I wanted a tool that skips the dashboard phase entirely and just says: "Feature X has a drop-off problem at step 3. Here's what's likely causing it." How it works under the hood The core idea is simple. Instead of tracking hundreds of discrete events and hoping someone con

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