The privacy-first angle is the part I'd lead with harder. I built an analytics product too and landed on the same constraint for a different reason — my users' data is sensitive enough that "we don't collect it" had to be structural rather than a policy, so there's simply no column for it in the schema. Turns out the constraint sells better than the feature would have.
One question on the gamification: does the XP track effort or outcome? Levelling up on visitors feels different from levelling up on shipping — the first rewards a number you only partly control, the second rewards the thing that actually moves it. Curious which way you went, because that choice probably decides whether founders come back on a bad week.
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The privacy-first angle is the part I'd lead with harder. I built an analytics product too and landed on the same constraint for a different reason — my users' data is sensitive enough that "we don't collect it" had to be structural rather than a policy, so there's simply no column for it in the schema. Turns out the constraint sells better than the feature would have.
One question on the gamification: does the XP track effort or outcome? Levelling up on visitors feels different from levelling up on shipping — the first rewards a number you only partly control, the second rewards the thing that actually moves it. Curious which way you went, because that choice probably decides whether founders come back on a bad week.