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

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Post by SomeCallMeTim »

the_arun wrote: post #49
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…

Regarding PostHog: If am a Startup & still running my beta product, $1500 per month is very expensive for managed service. They should charge it by number of API requests. Then I can start using this and naturally grow into the product. I really do not have bandwidth to self host when I am busy solving core customer problem.

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

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Post by Jugurtha »

the_arun wrote: post #49
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…

Regarding PostHog: If am a Startup & still running my beta product, $1500 per month is very expensive for managed service. They should charge it by number of API requests. Then I can start using this and naturally grow into the product. I really do not have bandwidth to self host when I am busy solving core customer problem.

I'm not affiliated with PostHog nor am I privy to their internal tradeoffs; I therefore can't comment on how they should charge. However, their self hosting modality is rather straightforward: it's a docker-compose. It takes a few minutes to set up and mostly just works.

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

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

robin_reala wrote: post #2

The standard recommendation is https://matomo.org/ . I’ve used it in production once (when it was called Piwik) and it seemed reasonable, but I’m not sure how it stacks up right now.

A company I used to work for used Piwik and that's what I was going to suggest - I didn't realise it was now called Matomo.

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

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Post by stanislavb »

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.

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

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Post by alexknowshtml »

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

Another huge plausible fan here! I pay for the hosted version but the option to self host in the future is really nice.
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