It lead me to think more about other software like posthog, software for AB tests, marketing, setting pricing, testimonials and perhaps payments API. Now for payments, auth and other things there are a range of starterkits, some specific, like SaaS starterkits. But not the analytics layer, really. Yet I have found for startups showing flames of life, that this layer is vital.
Setting these up for each sideproject/startup can be a real drag. The practical usage of these tools often seems superficial - lets' say 80% of projects never making significant amounts of requests or using RAM - the sort of things you could pool together?
Is there any company aiming to pull together services from all the above and host an 'all-in-one' solution? They could form partnerships with the likes of Highlight.io and other players to keep the usage amicable and updated without issue. It'd be much nicer to just deal with one company and API for the stack, similar to the days of Google Analytics in the 10s.
On our roadmap, we do have metrics and traces on the horizon. Also, on our session replay product, we've been recently getting lots of requests on the analytics ends, so an analytics product at some point is something we've thought about.
I do agree that it would be nice to have all the data in the same place (as a user of these types of tools). Another idea that we've toyed with is exposing a sql-like UI where people can query data arbitrarily.
Do any of the above points resonate? Thanks for thinking of us, and excited to see what the community thinks.