Keen IO Blog
The blog of Keen IO, an analytics API startup, covering analytics, data stacks, startup pay negotiation, and pricing.
What HN says
HN links it for startup posts and job listings; commenters praise the product, though one says the pricing page needs a worked example.
Stats for nerds
74HN people shared it
194linked in comments
2Kstory points
Mar 2020last shared
Top posts on HN
- 1Permission to Fail4 people · 351 points · first shared 2015 · 60 comments on HN
- 2How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)2 people · 261 points · first shared 2012 · 220 comments on HN
- 3How LinkedIn Just Made Ten Million People Feel Special1 person · 110 points · first shared 2013 · 60 comments on HN
- 4Lessons from a Failed YC Pitch with Paul Graham2 people · 94 points · first shared 2015 · 41 comments on HN
- 5The Early Early Stage1 person · 90 points · first shared 2012 · 9 comments on HN
- 6What CTOs Fear Most1 person · 88 points · first shared 2013 · 22 comments on HN
- 7Sexism in Tech: A Good Apology is Better than No Mistakes1 person · 72 points · first shared 2013 · 170 comments on HN
- 8Pricing is hard. We need your help.2 people · 54 points · first shared 2012 · 33 comments on HN
- 9Why I left consulting and joined a startup2 people · 46 points · first shared 2012 · 47 comments on HN
- 10Work with People You Love1 person · 39 points · first shared 2012 · 10 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
- truongor17Jul 2016
Keen IO (https://keen.io/) | San Francisco Bay Area + Remote USA | Full Time
----- About Keen IO -----
Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale.
Our Mission = Turn Explorers into Discoverers.
We value: introspection, continuous learning, personal agency, honesty, and empathy. It's a work in progress!
We recently raised our Series B and are looking to grow our awesome family of Keenies!
—— Platform Generalist Engineers -----
(SF Bay Area or Remote US only) Keen IO is seeking engineers to join our team. We build and nurture an Analytics API that processes user data and queries around the clock, across diverse industries. Whether it’s gaming, e-commerce, advertising, publishing, or IoT, our platform aims to make Analytics so easy for developers that they can focus entirely on their product. Our challenge is to scale with a constantly growing data deluge and evolve along with our user’s needs. Skills: Cassandra, Java, Scala, Tornado, Zookeeper, Storm, Kafka
----- UX Engineer & Full-Stack Engineers -----
(SF Bay Area) Keen IO is seeking a UX Engineer & a Full-stack Engineer to join our team. Our team is focused on shaping the interactive environment where anyone can put our APIs to work and get value out of our platform. We do this through apps and interfaces like our Explorer, Dashboards, and Dataviz SDK. Our customers' expectations for both technical capability and quality have never been higher than they are…
- dorkitudeDec 2013
Systems Programmer / Infrastructure Engineer at Keen IO - https://keen.io (San Francisco only, for now)
Analytics Backend as a Service for modern developers (web + mobile + internet of things)
Our API's usage is doubling every 6-8 weeks. We need help supporting that load.
Keen IO is a fully managed cloud API that lets developers build complex, hyper-custom, large-scale analytics and data science features directly into their web, mobile, or Internet of Things applications.
Our currency is event data, and events are a pretty broad abstraction. Every time someone draws a breath, clicks a link, loads a website, pauses a song, or starts a car, there's an event. Events like these, in large aggregate, are extremely useful -- and therefore valuable :)
It's probably worth mentioning that we're a platform company, not a product company. This means our customers are using the platform to build for an emergent and rapidly growing set of use cases. The same flexibility that makes us future-proof for a given customer also makes us future-proof from a market perspective. So while a product company seeks a certain kind of product-market fit, we allow product-market fit to come to us: our customers build it for themselves.
Things we look for in a new team member:
• Learning agility
• Abstract reasoning
• Empathy
• Potential is more important than credential
• Confidence, but tempered by humility & the drive to get even betterSome things we believe in:
• Mission =…
- pandemicsynSep 2018
Keen IO | San Antonio, TX | Solutions Architect | Full-time | ONSITE | https://keen.io
We acquired Keen last December and have been carefully growing the team and getting the product in shape since then. We started with ramping up engineering over the spring/summer and we just finished staffing up our CS org. We've got enough organic demand that a Solutions Architect is our next critical hire (our chief platform engineer and I have been splitting that work but its definitely a full time job at this point).
At Keen the Solutions Architect role is a bit different. Its a highly technical role and you work both pre-sales and on post sale implementation. Our analytics platform provides general purpose building blocks to solve a wide variety of challenges, we rely heavily on discovery and a deep level of analytics expertise to help our customers assemble exactly the solution they need.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience in either a Sales or Customer facing engineering role.
- Solid understanding of SQL or NoSQL concepts and implementations.
- Technical background working with modern web technologies, stacks, and API’s.You should have some familiarity with one or more of the following: Javascript, Ruby, Node, or Python, etc.
Ultimately, what we’re looking for is someone with familiarity implementing business or product performance analytics ( activation, engagement, retention, adoption), and that can help other companies use our platform to implement similar metrics and…
- truongdor17Oct 2015
SF Bay Area or Remote || Keen IO || https://keen.io/
----- About Keen IO -----
Keen IO is an API platform that lets developers collect and study custom events at a massive scale.
Our Mission = The Discovery of Truth.
Some things we believe in:
-Honesty & empathy
-Introspection
-Distributed innovation
-The importance of laughter & relationships
-Play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collaborators.
----- Platform & Middleware Engineers -----
(SF Bay Area or Remote) Keen IO is seeking engineers to join our team. We build and nurture an Analytics API that processes user data and queries around the clock, across diverse industries. Whether it’s gaming, e-commerce, advertising, publishing, or IoT, our platform aims to make Analytics so easy for developers that they can focus entirely on their product. Our challenge is to scale with a constantly growing data deluge and evolve along with our user’s needs.
Skills: Cassandra, Scala, Python, Java, Tornado, Go, Zookeeper, Storm, Kafka, Mesos
----- Consultative Sales -----
(SF Bay Area Only) Be one of the first sales reps for a fast-growing, Sequoia-backed, cloud analytics platform.
Our Cross-Vertical Practice is a small, cross-functional team (marketing, sales, sales engineering, data science) tasked with growing our business across all verticals.
For questions, please contact us at humans@keen.io or visit us on Angel List (https://angel.co/keen-io/jobs).
- ccordaDec 2017
We've been doing something similar using keen.io.
Our goals were to get high volume web data (pageviews, clicks, etc.) alongside application data already saved in our Firebase DB and synced to BigQuery.
We picked Keen because it has an open source web tracking lib https://github.com/keen/keen-tracking.js/ that easily plugs into our React/Redux stack.
They also have built-in streaming to BigQuery:
https://keen.io/docs/integrations/google-bigquery/Keen pricing is about 10% of mixpanel, so for our limited needs it has been working well.
Long term if our volumes really grew the original post looks like a good option, but figured we'd pass along this lower dev approach.
- acrichDec 2012
It kinda depends on where that company is in its funding lifecycle. Startups usually have a recruiting stage right after the series A round is complete, so there's a bunch of articles and blog posts about that situation. Here's a short reading list:
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-your-time-in-crappy-startup-jobs/
http://blog.keen.io/post/29904565692/how-i-negotiated-my-startup-compensation
http://jacquesmattheij.com/first-employee-or-cofounder/There are a few equity calculators out there on google, both for partners and early employees. They might give you some direction, although I wouldn't solely rely on them.
Good luck!