Alternatives Guides Long List

andyvan-ph commented 8 months ago

Session replay

[ ] Uxcam (110/m) – waiting on mobile replay
[ ] Highlight.io - 0/mo

Feature flags & A/B testing

[x] Eppo - 0/mo @Lior539
[ ] ConfigCat - 0/mo
[x] Flagsmith - 30/mo @Lior539

Surveys

[x] Sprig - 30/mo - @Lior539
[x] Survicate - 40/mo - @Lior539

BI & CDP

[ ] Segment - 480/mo (get in first and add PostHog later)
[ ] Rudderstack - 70/mo (get in first and add PostHog later)
[ ] Metabase alternatives - 880/mo (get in first and add PostHog later)

Web analytics (Pause until product is more ready)

[ ] Matomo - 170/mo
[ ] Fathom - 50/mo
[ ] Vercel analytics - 0/mo
[ ] Plausible - 170/mo (once web analytics ships) @andyvan-ph

andyvan-ph commented 8 months ago

FAO @PostHog/marketing. We should probably aim for 80% of the above. Please suggest any you think we should add in.

charlescook-ph commented 8 months ago

Weirdly I think it might be worth doing the Optimizely one purely to help filter out the wrong kind of ICP?

Strong +1 on alternatives to Segment.

Growthbook is probably worth considering?

simfish85 commented 8 months ago

+1 on Growthbook Pendo

ivanagas commented 8 months ago

Do we want to adjust the positioning of this blog on open source Hotjar/Fullstory alternatives? Current ranks poorly for Fullstory alternatives.
I think we should avoid any with zero search at the moment, as there are plenty with some search we can work on.

More options:

uxcam alternative (110/m) for session replay
userpilot alternatives (140/m) for product analytics, surveys + onboarding
smartlook alternatives (140/m) for product analytics, session replay
crazy egg alternatives (110/m) for session replay
lucky orange alternatives (110/m) for session replay, surveys, analytics
split alternative (110/m) for feature flags and a/b testing

andyvan-ph commented 8 months ago

Do we want to adjust the positioning of this blog on open source Hotjar/Fullstory alternatives? Current ranks poorly for Fullstory alternatives.

That page actually targets stuff like "Hotjar open source" and "fullstory open source" so no need to change.

I think we should avoid any with zero search at the moment, as there are plenty with some search we can work on.

I think @Lior539's tutorial work showed ranking top for something with "zero search" can generate decent traffic – "0" often means they just don't have the data, not that there's literally zero search. For example, I'll be amazed if there's really no searches for "AB tasty alternatives" given it's a pretty well established product.

That said, we should 100% prioritize the ones with bigger search first and only do the "zeros" if they align super well with our ICP – e.g. GrowthBook is much smaller, but aligns very well with our ICP. Same for Flagsmith.

Suggestions

uxcam alternative (110/m) ✅
userpilot alternatives (140/m) - already had it under "other"
smartlook alternatives (140/m) - ✅
crazy egg & lucky organge - I think these are both too marketing orientated atm.
split alternative (110/m) - will add but I think this is really a "0/mo". I strongly I suspect some of these searches are people looking for an alternative to visiting Split in Croatia!

andyvan-ph commented 8 months ago

Ok, I have:

Added more suggestions
Put them into some kind of priority order

@Lior539 @ivanagas I can take session replay and you guys can split feature flags?

Probably makes sense to focus on the ones with reportable search for now. Once we've covered them off, we can review.

Lior539 commented 8 months ago

@andyvan-ph Sounds good. I will likely only get around to it in Mid-march. Id like to complete the tutorials megaissue first and have about 35 tutorials I'd like to write first

andyvan-ph commented 8 months ago

Yeah, no worries. There's no massive rush. We'll just keep chipping away at them over the next month or so.

jamesefhawkins commented 8 months ago

Stat sig are quite up and coming in the experimentation space

andyvan-ph commented 8 months ago

Ah yes, totally forgot. Lior even wrote a comparison on them. Will add.

andyvan-ph commented 7 months ago

Mental note: Firebase alternatives

ivanagas commented 6 months ago

Ok, we aren't going to get to all of these, and as we have a lot to do in Q2, we really need to focus. I suggest we only do the ones we have a product launched now and get search traffic (+ Statsig and Growthbook because requested). We can write alternatives as part of the launch of new products. This means:

Session replay

[ ] Uxcam (110/m)

Feature flags & A/B testing

[ ] VWO - 170/mo
[ ] Optimizely - 260/mo
[ ] Split - 110/mo
[ ] Statsig - 0/mo
[ ] Flagsmith - 30/mo
[ ] GrowthBook 0/mo

Surveys

[ ] Userpilot - 140/mo
[ ] Sprig - 30/mo
[ ] Survicate - 40/mo

andyvan-ph commented 6 months ago

Agreed. Will update this issue today, but will change these a little. UXcam is mobile only, so only makes sense to do that when iOS and Android replays have shipped.

Given the current status of surveys, I'm unsure if we want to invest there. I suspect web analytics will be valuable once that's ready.

andyvan-ph commented 6 months ago

Q2

Priority

[ ] VWO - 170/mo

[ ] Optimizely - 260/mo

[ ] Split - 110/mo

[ ] Statsig - 0/mo

[ ] Flagsmith - 30/mo

[ ] GrowthBook 0/mo

[ ] Plausible - 170/mo (once web analytics ships)

Nice to haves

[ ] Segment - 480/mo (get in first and add PostHog later)

[ ] Rudderstack - 70/mo (get in first and add PostHog later)

Have updated the issue as above.

andyvan-ph commented 5 months ago

@Lior539 @ivanagas @Lior539 @jtemperton I've split up the high prio alternatives guides amongst us above. Ian has already done / started on his. Will assume these are fine unless I hear otherwise! 😉

Lior539 commented 5 months ago

Im assuming its fine if I get these done sometime before the end the quarter?

andyvan-ph commented 5 months ago

@Lior539 Yes, but let's bias to the first half rather than the second. The earlier we do these, the sooner we'll reap the benefits.

andyvan-ph commented 4 months ago

Moved this to backlog as this is complete from a Q2 POV

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