https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed/blob/main/packages/is...

- *Helm Chart*: We've added a Helm chart for easy installation on Kubernetes. Several teams are already using it in production.

- *Manual Segments*: Create segments based on a hardcoded list of users, great for targeting based on external data or analysis.

- *Email Attachments*: We've added support for email attachments, enhancing email campaign capabilities.

- *Performance Enhancements*: Significant improvements include an optimization to our segmentation engine, resulting in a 50% reduction in compute times!

- *Webhook and SMS Broadcasts*: Send one-off messages to external APIs and SMS providers.

- *Random Bucket Segment Type*: Useful for testing new journey paths or A/B testing.

- *Synchronize Properties in Webhook Nodes*: Safely retrieve and use data from your own APIs in your journeys.

- *Improved Admin APIs*: Extended APIs allow developers to programmatically read and update journeys, segments, and user properties.

- *HyperDX Integration*: Added support for correlating logs and traces with HyperDX via OpenTelemetry.

For a more detailed breakdown of what's included in v0.14.0, check out our full release notes: https://www.dittofeed.com/post/release-v0-14-0

If you're self-hosting Dittofeed, make sure to consult our latest upgrade guide: https://docs.dittofeed.com/deployment/self-hosted/upgrade-guide/v0-14-0

We'd really appreciate it if you visited and starred our repo to help support the project: https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

We'd love to get your feedback and suggestions for new features and improvements.

Thank you!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41258761

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- *New Webhook Channel*: This channel lets you make API requests directly from user journeys. It's useful for:

1. Use cases include sending Slack messages, triggering native mobile push notifications.

2. Sending messages with your internal APIs.

3. Integrating messaging channels that Dittofeed doesn't yet support natively.

- *Admin API*: The Admin API allows you to programmatically manage your Dittofeed workspace. This release includes endpoints for managing users, searching user events, and more.

- *Improved Template Publishing UX*: Our template editor now allows you to visually compare your drafts against published templates, simplifying the publication process and ensuring you don’t lose track of your changes.

For a more detailed breakdown of what’s included in v0.13.1, check out our blog post:

https://dittofeed.com/blog/release-0-13-1

And for those self-hosting Dittofeed, make sure to consult our latest upgrade guide:

https://docs.dittofeed.com/deployment/self-hosted/upgrade-guide/v0-13-0

We'd really appreciate it if you visited and starred our repo to help support the project:

https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

Thanks all!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077936

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- New "NotEquals" Segment Operator: Now, you can exclude users based on the absence of specific traits, enabling more precise targeting in your Journeys.

- Optimized Query Memory Efficiency: We've significantly improved the memory efficiency of our computed property engine, powered by ClickHouse. This is helpful for teams self-hosting Dittofeed.

- Subscription Email Headers: We've updated our email headers for subscription-related emails to comply with Bulk email sender guidelines, improving deliverability.

- Improved Messaging Stats: Addressed an edge case with Sendgrid webhook events that could lead to inaccurate messaging stats.

For a detailed look at the contents of v0.12.1 you can read our blog post.

https://dittofeed.com/blog/release-0-12-1

For self-hosting users, see our upgrade guide:

https://docs.dittofeed.com/deployment/self-hosted/upgrade-guide/v0-12-0

We’d really appreciate it if you visited and starred our repo.

https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842706

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- Journey Drafts: Edit and save journeys before publishing changes to users. - Journey Percentages: Shows users’ progression through journeys. Useful for debugging and optimization. - SMS Stats: Extended analytics to include SMS, alongside email. - Revamped Resource Tables*: Updated UI for easier navigation of Journeys, Messages, Segments, etc. - User Filters: New filtering options for user properties and segment assignments.

For more info check out our blog post:

https://dittofeed.com/blog/release-0-11-0

If you have any questions or feature requests, we’d love it if you joined us on Discord: https://discord.gg/HajPkCG4Mm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39758659

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- Support for transactional messaging via Event Entry journeys. This was a highly requested feature among community members.

Read more here:

https://docs.dittofeed.com/resources/journey-nodes/entry#event-entry

- Support for new email service providers, Amazon SES, and Postmark. Amazon SES, in particular, has been a long-requested feature, given SES’s reputation for great deliverability and being low cost.

This release also includes several other additions, like event search and optimizations to our segmentation engine. If you’re interested in reading more, we’ve got a release post:

https://dittofeed.com/blog/release-0-10-0

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the tools you currently use for transactional or marketing messaging.

If you’d like to make suggestions, or ask questions, we’re available on our discord.

https://discord.gg/HajPkCG4Mm

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551964

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39280687

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If you're interested in how to segment users by processing semi-structured event logs at scale, keep reading!

Article: https://dev.to/dittofeed-max/how-we-stopped-our-clickhouse-d... Dittofeed's primary repo: https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

This article includes code samples, as well as a link to a git repo you can use to run tests and follow along. These code samples demonstrate a simplified user segmentation setup in ClickHouse.

Accompanying repo for the article: https://github.com/dittofeed/clickhouse-segments-tutorial

User segmentation is key to understanding your business or application’s users’ behaviors. For example, you might want to keep track of which users have gotten stuck in an onboarding flow or which users haven’t logged in within the last 30 days.

Here's a quick rundown of what I covered:

Diving into ClickHouse: Why we (and you) should use ClickHouse for your analytical workloads, and user segmentation in particular.

On User Segmentation: What are user segments, and how do we calculate them. We cover some basic pseudocode.

Tackling Idempotency: To avoid duplicate data messing up our calculations, we've made sure our setup is idempotent.

Scaling with Micro-Batching: Simulate stream processing by incrementally aggregating user events in small batches. This is really the core of the article!

"Event Time" vs. "Processing Time": When did an event happen and what are the different ways we can measure time? How do we accommodate different measures of time in our application?

I'd really love it if you could take a moment to check out the article and maybe even drop a star on the Dittofeed GitHub repo. Your support and feedback would mean a lot!

Catch you all soon!

Would love to learn about your use case and pain points.

Dittofeed is an open-source alternative to platforms like customer.io, Braze, and others. Reverse ETL is useful for allowing growth teams to track new events without blocking on the product engineering team.

Polytomic is a data platform which supports both ETL and reverse ETL.

A few other release highlights based on HN feedback:

- Full overhaul of our “broadcasts” feature to improve the ease of sending one-off messages like newsletters and product updates. - You can now send test messages to yourself to ensure proper rendering in different email clients, validate ESP credentials, etc.

Release blog post with all updates [here](https://dittofeed.com/blog/release-0-6-0). Hope to hear your thoughts!

Github Repo - https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

Demo - https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard/journeys

Docs - https://docs.dittofeed.com/getting-started

Polytomic Docs - https://docs.polytomic.com/docs/getting-started

Dittofeed Polytomic Docs - https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/sources/polytomic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38073060

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- Twilio-based SMS messaging. You can create SMS templates and customer journeys within Dittofeed.

SMS is a great channel for B2C software companies, looking to engage with their users. For example, e-commerce businesses commonly use SMS to support checkout flows.

We'll be making further enhancements to Dittofeed's SMS support in the coming weeks!

- We added a new "Trait Exists" segmentation option, which can be used to create a segment of all users with phone numbers, for example.

- We made some fairly large improvements to our settings UI. Big shout out to our contributor! https://github.com/promisetochi

The full feature release blog post can be found here: https://dittofeed.com/blog/release-0-5-0.

Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!

Github Repo - https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

Demo - https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard/journeys

Docs - https://docs.dittofeed.com/getting-started

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781455

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