Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics • Hacker News Board

At the first sight they really look quite similar. Counter does not use a relational database and is highly optimized to serve users for free. If you want more details and really dig into the data plausible could be a better fit. If you value a free product and don't need too much details or actually even value less data collection then I would say go with counter.

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

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Post by ihucos » Sun, Mar 07, 2021, 10:30 PM UTC

rafaelturk wrote: post #6

This looks amazing. Kudos for the project. Extra points for using Redis as main DB.

Thanks! That is really cool to hear.

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

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Post by dorianmariefr » Sun, Mar 07, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

I use https://github.com/ankane/ahoy and quite happy with it

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

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Post by Techonomicon » Sun, Mar 07, 2021, 10:40 PM UTC

ihucos wrote: post #4

kowlo wrote: post #3

Seen many of these on HN recently - decision paralysis

That's why with counter you can get started in like 10 seconds. And permanently delete your data via the GUI if you don't like it :-)

Can't speak for the OC, but I'd say decision paralysis for these sorts of utilities is more about "will I regret having used this after a year vs something else" and less about "can I dump this after trying it for a week".

Competition is great, but people are people and want to know they're making a good longer term decision, which isn't always clear in the short term.

This is just something you can't help with outside of provide information, especially since use cases and desires of users of these services change over time.