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Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Post by whylo »

This is a great idea and I love the design.

It looks like anyone can see the stats for any domain using the service without any authentication. I added the tracking code to my domain and was able to hit https://simpleanalytics.io/[mydomain.co.uk] without signing up or logging in. I was also able to see the stats for your personal site.

Is that intentional? If it is, it seems like an odd choice for a privacy-first service. If not, it seems like quite a worrying oversight in a paid-for product.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Post by pierrefar »

Looks good! I'm the founder of a similar service (Blockmetry). Obviously non-tracking web analytics is the future!

I'm curious why you chose to host the data yourself instead of giving customers the data immediately at the point of collection. That's the path we chose for Blockmetry as it genuinely required to be a non-tracking web analytics service and makes it impossible to profile users. Any service that hosts its data would still be open to being untrusted on the "no tracking no profiling" argument.

Thanks, Pierre

PS - YC Startup School founders: ping me via the forums and get an extended-period free trial.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Post by xur17 »

sondr3 wrote: post #17

I've moved away from using any kind of script embedded in my webpages for tracking and instead just use Goaccess ( https://goaccess.io/ ) to analyze my logs. Though there are obvious caveats with this, you need to install it, configure the server logging to match it and so on. But personally the benefits outweighs the cons, it all runs on the server, you are the sole owner off all the data and this tracking doesn't r…

This looks awesome - I'm curious if anyone has found a good way to use this with Kubernetes. You can choose where to ship your cluster logs, so it should be possible.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Post by xrisk »

sleepyhead wrote: post #58

"We don't use cookies or collect any personal data." IP-address is considered personal data. So when the browsers visits a page with the JS, the IP-address of the user is transferred to your server. So that means the website I am visiting is sharing my IP-address with a third-party (you).

The IP address isn't stored though.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Post by MrQuincle »

Well done brother. :-) The more privacy-aware tools, the better!

Something that would interest me, is a little explanation of https://github.com/simpleanalytics/cdn.simpleanalytics.io/bl....

You already have very brief comments at strategic points. If you would explain these one by one, I would learn a lot about optimizing for number of requests, skipping stuff to load, etc. Maybe a technical blog post at a later time when the dust settles?

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Post by sleepyhead »

xrisk wrote: post #64
sleepyhead wrote: post #58

"We don't use cookies or collect any personal data." IP-address is considered personal data. So when the browsers visits a page with the JS, the IP-address of the user is transferred to your server. So that means the website I am visiting is sharing my IP-address with a third-party (you).

The IP address isn't stored though.

I don't think that is relevant. What matters is that it is transferred to a third-party. And regardless if it is stored in a database, the servers are still processing the data (and maybe storing the log of it).

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Post by harianus »

exikyut wrote: post #50

My feedback: someone else mentioned making the tiny live demo button bigger. I suggest scrapping it entirely... and embedding the demo statistics directly under the video, or very close to it, to go straight from "why" to "what it looks like". The chart/stats page design is sufficiently clean that shoving the whole thing onto the homepage won't actually be an information overload. Speaking of the video, it's ridiculo…

I made the live button huge under the video, thanks for the feedback! Thank you for the kind words, means a lot! I will read this comment threat a hundred times after today, for sure!

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

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Post by dwild »

danielbln wrote: post #51
harianus wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please remember this is a Show HN, very early stage.

You could argue that if it is very early stage, then it's maybe not the right time to charge $12/month.

Or maybe it's the right time to charge $12/month?

Usually too early you don't want many low paying customer which would imply too much support while you iterate quickly. A low number of high paying customer is much better.

It's also easier to lower the cost later than increasing it. It's hard early on to find the right price point.

If he doesn't sale as much as he want, he will adapt.

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