As soon as you release the first version of your Electron-based application into production, you may need to gather some statistics regarding how your customers use the application. Then, you can use that information to improve the product and boost the downloads or sales of your application if it's commercial. Some examples of how we can use this information are as follows:

• Improving distribution and sales: Imagine that, according to analytics, most of your user base is coming from the macOS world. You may want to provide more macOS integration or focus on strengthening support for other platforms, for example. The same goes for geographical locations. You may see the need to improve advertising for a particular set of countries that lack downloads or purchases.
• Improving product quality: The critical aspect of any successful application release is having a bug tracking system. Bugs sometimes happen, and it's not always easy for our end users to raise issues or provide all the necessary technical details. Upon releasing a new version of your application to the public, you definitely want to see error details, as well as the number of systems that have been affected by any errors that have occurred.
• License management: Tracking application licenses is another crucial part of your product life cycle. You may want to gather statistics on how many licenses have been sold alongside the analytical statistics. This helps when you are selling your application or you have different feature tiers or add-ons that users can purchase separately.

Next, we are going to discuss whether we should start building our homegrown analytics and tracking solution or use existing services. In addition to this, you will learn how to use Nucleus (https://nucleus.sh/) in order to integrate analytics, bug tracking, and license management for your Electron applications with little effort.