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Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by RMPR »

stanislavb wrote: post #58
Jugurtha wrote: post #38

PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS. I was using Avodocs ( https://www.avodocs.com ) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai , but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something. I tweeted…

And we can find alternative open-source projects to Posthog here https://www.libhunt.com/PostHog/posthog . In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt. All you need to do is open a GitHub repo and replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL. Disclosure: LibHunt is a project I work on.

> In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt

How does it compare to alternativeto?

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by RMPR »

ukutaht wrote: post #45
ggoo wrote: post #8

I use plausible for my very low traffic side project, mostly because it's easy to host yourself and free if you do so. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

Thank you! I'm the maintainer of the project and it's so heartwarming to see it being recommended on this forum. All the projects mentioned here are great. What I think sets Plausible apart is that we've managed to create a profitable business around a 100% AGPL-licensed codebase (i.e. no dual-license for enterprise version). This means we can keep investing into the product and adding new features without being in t…

I know that it's not a support channel here, but I set up plausible on my blog (rmpr.xyz) was very happy with it, decided to pay for one year. The thing is, when I try to pay, it says my bank refused the transaction (when I pay on other websites like Amazon) it's perfectly fine. And one thing I should note is that I'm charged then refunded a bit later, I don't know if the problem is my bank or your transaction provider. Thank you for such an amazing Product, easy to use and without overhead at all. Kudos to you

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by iamacyborg »

waspight wrote: post #110
iamacyborg wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because their customers understand the value of the data and are willing to pay for it.

So are you saying that their profit is high or that the cost for running such saas is high?

I'm saying they have a very high profit margin.

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by markosaric »

RMPR wrote: post #112
ukutaht wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! I'm the maintainer of the project and it's so heartwarming to see it being recommended on this forum. All the projects mentioned here are great. What I think sets Plausible apart is that we've managed to create a profitable business around a 100% AGPL-licensed codebase (i.e. no dual-license for enterprise version). This means we can keep investing into the product and adding new features without being in t…

I know that it's not a support channel here, but I set up plausible on my blog (rmpr.xyz) was very happy with it, decided to pay for one year. The thing is, when I try to pay, it says my bank refused the transaction (when I pay on other websites like Amazon) it's perfectly fine. And one thing I should note is that I'm charged then refunded a bit later, I don't know if the problem is my bank or your transaction provid…

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 transaction they tell us to tell you to contact your bank or to try a different payment method. will get back to you with their response.

(the second Plausible cofounder)

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by rambambram »

I had to ask myself this question some time ago. I decided to build it myself instead. Starting point being the principle that Simple Analytics explained in their blogpost some time ago: if referrer is from the same site, then it's just a visit, otherwise it's a unique visitor. I mixed in some more browser details, also used some blacklist of known bots, and now it's functioning pretty accurately. I don't have the tracking that GA does, but that was exactly the point.

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by wolfhumble »

XCSme wrote: post #5

I have been building a self-hosted analytics platform[0] (note that it's not free or open-source, just partially source-available) that is focused on the ease of self-hosting. It is most similar to Matomo but with a better performance, simpler UI and with features that they only provide in their paid plans. I used simple technologies (MySQL/PHP) for performance and portability reasons and, compared to other self-host…

Looks like a great tool! Questions: I think you might be based in the Netherlands(?), how does UXWizz conform to European laws of privacy? I see that it tracks IP addresses, is that legal? How does it handle cases where people don't respond or opt out of eu cookie consent?

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by sergioisidoro »

Jugurtha wrote: post #62
toshk wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Side question. Posthog describes an event pipeline. Is there a saas/open source server with event pipelines where you can do add logic to do things, like: send email, notifications, send api call, maybe add custom logic etc. Ive seen things like segment.io, but didn't find a straightforward solution. Example: - if a user finished three workouts, send this notification. - if a user hasn't done a workout in a week remi…

As far as I know, PostHog uses ClickHouse, Redis, and Kafka among other things. https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/architecture From the use cases you're describing, you might want to check out https://customer.io

There is a minimal setup of Posthog with postgres and redis, if I'm not mistaken. The default setup is geared towards large scale deployments.

Edit: The base docker compose is: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/docker-compos...

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