Building a Product Discovery Platform with Real-time Analytics using the Dub API
Product discovery platforms like Product Hunt and Betalist have become popular destinations for tech enthusiasts to discover new tools and resources. Every day, thousands of new products are submitted to these platforms, which in turn generates millions of outbound clicks to the products' websites.
Usually, these platforms rely on product analytics tools like Segment, Amplitude, or Mixpanel to track these clicks and other user interactions. However, there are several limitations with these tools:
In this article, we'll show you how you can leverage Dub's API to integrate real-time user-facing analytics into your products – using OSS Gallery as a real-world example.
OSS Gallery is a crowdsourced list of the best open-source projects on the web. It's a platform for you to discover new open-source tools, libraries, and resources that can help you build better software.
We built OSS Gallery to showcase the capabilities of Dub's API for building real-time user-facing analytics. With Dub's API, we were able to track outgoing clicks from OSS Gallery to a project's GitHub repository + website and display those clicks in real-time on the project page.
