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markosaric

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About markosaric

I'm the co-founder of Plausible Analytics https://plausible.io

More info about me is on https://markosaric.com/

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    Thanks for the feedback! Could you please share what you mean by bait and switch? We're fully open source, we have a completely free as in beer self-hosted solution and we've only …

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    Comment #33092863

    Thanks! All existing subscribers are grandfathered to the price they signed up with. And we do have a complete free as in beer self-hosted solution.

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    Comment #33092645

    Thanks for your feedback! We've only had 3 different prices since May 2019 when we launched and you can see them on GitHub as the code goes there: 2019: $6/month for up to 10k page…

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    Comment #31863613

    exactly! our first "viral" moment was on HN too and we only got a few direct signups that day but we would never have made it to this point without being on the top of HN that time…

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    Comment #31863537

    thanks for sharing! there's this saying in marketing that you should ignore anyone who's not much bigger than you so that's how we think about it. we focus on the tools with a larg…

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    Comment #31863520

    good point, thanks! we had to shorten the top menu on mobile devices to fit all the important stuff so you only see "X filters" rather than the full filter as on the desktop

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    Comment #29955261

    All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean i…

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    Comment #29954320

    All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean i…

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    Comment #29954317

    All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean i…

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    Comment #29954313

    All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean i…

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    Comment #29954292

    All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean i…

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    Comment #29954280

    All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean i…

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    Comment #29918853

    hi! we use Paddle for all the payments. i've sent an email to them now to see if they can tell us more. in majority of cases when transactions fails because the bank refuses the tr…

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    Comment #29917440

    Plausible has an events API that allows you to record pageviews and custom events without JS. https://plausible.io/docs/events-api (I'm the cofounder)

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    Comment #29917354

    PostHog is more focused on product analytics rather than web analytics. It's a very different product to Plausible so we didn't really do a comparison with them. I would say they'r…

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    Comment #28368849

    the subreddit that drove the traffic to the post that was analyzed was /r/linux which should be more technical than the average subreddit out there

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    Comment #28366398

    Depends really on the subreddit in question. The traffic to the blog post that was analyzed came from /r/linux which should be more tech savvy than the average web user and also mo…

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    Comment #26649630

    You mean like a page drilldown to see stats of the individual page? You can do that already. On our live demo, click on any page in the Top Pages report and the dashboard will be s…

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    Comment #26649533

    What's wrong with AGPL that doesn't fit with our ideas? We were on the MIT first and got into a situation where a large corporation wanted to take our code and resell it to tens of…

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    Comment #26649296

    This is probably a better overview of what makes Plausible a privacy-focused tool: open source, can be self-hosted, no connection to adtech, minimal data collection, no cookies, no…

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    thanks, glad to hear that! and hope you enjoy this feature!