Taras Shynkarenko

Hey everyone

ClawOffice was a bit of a gimmick - a 3D virtual office for AI agents. It was fun to build and got some attention on launch, but let's be real: it didn't take off. People thought it was cool for a minute, then moved on. No real retention, no real problem being solved.

Here's what I actually learned from it:

• Novelty value. A cool concept gets you a launch day. It doesn't get you users who come back on day 30.

• I was building for the demo, not the workflow. ClawOffice looked great in a screenshot. It didn't solve anything measurable for anyone.

• "What gets tracked gets improved" is real. The founders I talked to afterward all had the same pain - they were shipping features and running experiments with no clue what was actually driving revenue.

Hey all, this is not AI written so you can keep on reading :)

So I needed analytics for my side projects. My first instinct was to connect PostHog, and it was great, I use it to this day, however it's just too complicated for the simple analytics that I wanted: Country, Origin, some UTMs, per user attribution, entry page, pages, and revenue. Later I discovered that PostHog events are immutable, and I couldn't remove my test fake data from their analytics. In order to do so I'd need to write manual SQL filters all over the place, so I started looking for an alternative.

The first one I found was Plausible, installed it - all great, but it did not have per user attribution that I really wanted. Next pick was DataFast, I've seen it on Twitter and it looked to me like it has exactly what I needed.

So I installed DataFast, added proxy to get all the customers, and it appeared that I actually collect much more, I'm not sure whether Plausible had the proxy setup, but I remember not being able to set it up, so I kept the DataFast.