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Product teams struggle to connect user behavior to outcomes

Product builders and analysts want to understand what individual users do over time and whether they return, but finding a specific user journey in Google Analytics can be tedious, and signup growth alone does not reveal retention. Some developers also want exact ad income by user or link, but say their ad providers do not expose it. A lightweight analytics product could address the behavior and retention questions, but exact ad-income reporting depends on what data providers make available.

For product builders and analysts. Mentioned from Dec 2023 to May 2024 on Bluesky, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.

4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.

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Indie fit
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Pain
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Businesses
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High
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Medium

What people said

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  1. Well if i want to know what the journey of a specific user is. How they progressed over time. Or an aggregate of that. pretty tedious to do that now in GA
  2. What do you use for metrics? I’m curious about daily active users (I know the signup number is growing fast but I’m curious how many stay)
    lainshep.bsky.social on BlueskyDec 2023Asked for a tool
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