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Hello everyone, my name is Alan. I am a part of WWW.ZOOO.OOO.
ZOOO is a location-first live video platform designed to let users see and share what’s happening around the world right now.
It is a video discovery tool built to reconnect individuals in an increasingly fragmented digital world, bridging the gap between entertainment and reality.

We are new to Amplitude and have been exploring its features, but we are encountering some limitations and wanted to check in with Slack to see if the community can help us address these "potential issues."

Given that we have events and event properties, we have an event called WATCH_VIDEO (did the user watch a video) with an event property TIME_WATCHED (how long the user watches videos).
We want to create a chart that shows the distribution of TIME_WATCHED across our users, such as how many users watch 1 minute of video, how many users watch 2 minutes, and so on. Additionally, we want to create a chart that displays, per user, how much time they spend watching compared to how much time they spend using the app without watching videos. For this, we would like to calculate something like Session_time minus Time_watched.

So far, we have learned that this could potentially be done with metrics, but our plan does not include metrics, so we would need to upgrade to a $30,000-a-year plan, which is a bit too expensive for us. We wondered if anyone in the channel has experienced the same limitations and if they have found a way to work around this without upgrading to the next tier. Our user count is extremely low, so we would really like to avoid paying.
Also, we had a conversation with an Amplitude account manager, and he mentioned that Amplitude is not really built for this purpose, which we found to be very surprising.

2b:T6c0,. ZOOO is a location-first live video platform designed to let users see and share what’s happening around the world right now. It is a video discovery