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Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative

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Re: Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative

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Post by phartenfeller »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #47
phartenfeller wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...and campfire, a one time fee slack alternative. Are people allowed to change their views?

Does anybody use it? There was a lot of hype on Twitter when it first came out and I haven't heard a single thing since then. Who wants to install that on a VPS and be responsible when it goes down when they could just use a Discord server or Slack?

This definitely depends on the use-case. But not having to rely on a foreign service and owning your data is huge for many people. Additionally slack is super expensive for a paid tenant that does not delete your chat history. And some day in the future Discord will surely enshittify their free options too.

Re: Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative

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Post by XCSme »

rognjen wrote: post #9

While admirable, a one time payment for a service you host is fair neither to you (what if I use it for 10 years) nor me (what if you shutdown tomorrow). On the other hand, a one time fee for analytics I could deploy on my server a) makes financial sense for you and b) is an intriguing value proposition for me. Have a look at https://once.com/

I am trying this with https://uxwizz.com but it's not easy.

I do like this model, but there are some challenges:

* With one-time the initial payment is higher ($299 one-time vs $29/mo), many people don't think too much before paying $29, but think a lot more before paying $299.

* Only paying once still doesn't cover the support expenses or future development. In my case, I went with pay-once use forever, but with paid updates after the first year. Also, the way I do the updates payment is different (you can pay any time to get 3, 12 or 24 more months of support/updates). With this model, the customer only pays what they want, and me as a developer, I'm incentivized to keep releasing updates.

* Self-hosting is also more niche than a service, especially if your product is not aimed directly at technical people. With my product, a lot of marketers could use it, but many of them don't even know what self-hosting is. That being said, for a small business, the available market of people who know how to self-host is large enough.

I do hope more companies/products switch to this self-hosted model, it's better for privacy, ownership, avoiding data centralization, etc.

Re: Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative

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Post by solardev »

Timwi wrote: post #42
vivzkestrel wrote: post #13

As genuine feedback, you have a long way to go. First of all, plausible can be self hosted and it won't cost you a dime. Secondly, there are atleast 50 analytics services out there that are self hostable and they clearly indicate what features they provide. It is good expect value for your efforts but the other person buying for 49$ also needs to see value. Perhaps add a list of features, some GIFs, screenshots of yo…

GIFs??

Yeah man, we don't like .BMPs anymore.

Re: Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative

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Post by Avfrosta »

geewee wrote: post #18

It's unclear to me based on your post, but you do realize that public IPs very much count as personally identifiable information under the GDPR, right?

Just like Plausible they're hashed with a daily rotating salt on arrival to my servers, forgot to mention that in the post.
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