Oh by the way, we are looking for a Co-Founder that we are convinced is able to grow counter. We really don't care how, chould be content marketing. We are here for the long term. Write a couple of sentences to hey@counter.dev
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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.
If you're collecting data, you generally want a) as much as you can get and b) be able to make use of it any way you want. Yes users of a privacy centric analytics tool are opting into less information, though the inability to do more may be a large downside to counter (if it is the case that it has less data collection capabilities vs plausible at this time). You never know what data you will need later, better to c…
This is for people that don't want to do that.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worth mentioning that the "pay what you want" business model can be a lot more profitable than people give it credit for. My hobby photography business, which my wife and I run on a "pay what you want" model, brings more than enough to pay our monthly bills and have some leftovers for savings. While the last time I checked about 97% of photo shoots paid below average, the 3% that paid above average more than made up…
That's interesting. Here in Berlin there is/was also a restaurant where you could pay what you want when you leave and it seemed to also work there. I can imagine important is to explicitly state that you do have costs and are expecting payment - it's just not such a strict thing and if you are a student of course you pay less. Let's see how it goes.
Agreed. I got the idea from the Humble Bundle[1] and wondered if it could work with physical products as well, instead of digital. Turns out there are more businesses than I thought doing it, even in the city I live, although it mostly seems limited to be coffee shops and restaurants for some reason.
If nothing else, this experience showed me that people can be pretty generous if you give them the chance, which changed my outlook on life for the better.
I may try offering a plan with this model for a limited time on my hosting business, to see how things go, as an experiment. It may be a little difficult since dedicated servers are not cheap, but depending on how much each people pay, it may offset the costs and turn into a profit. Tom Morkes[2] has a book on this model that might be worth the read as well[3].
Personally, I go with no analytics whatsoever for my business, for personal reasons, but we do offer a GoatCounter to customers to entice them to move away from Google Analytics. I will definitely keep an eye on Counter.dev as an alternative to that, good luck!
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#64Nice, I see u use cloudflare, is it the free version of cloudflare you use? or a paid version?
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#65I've been using Simple Analytics[1] for a while now and am loving it. Glad there is no trackers on the site.
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#66I was not expecting it to work flawlessly with my open source LMS CourseLit which I am currently building as CourseLit still has rough edges. But it did!
I was able to collect the analytics from my website and the setup was easier than that of Google Analytics. Great work.
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#67> Web Analytics made simple and therefore privacy friendly
One small remark: not storing personal data doesn't mean it's privacy friendly. Yes, it can be private for the user, but not for the business owner. If we still centralize data, then potentially a single entity gets information about traffic and browsing habits of user cohorts, which can then indeed be used for "evil", such as creating a competitor of that business by using the collected data or to guide those users towards a different website/direction.
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#68Looks nice but does the "pay what you want" model actually work?
I just can see a lot of people not paying at all because people usually don't care enough.
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I swapped from GA to Plausible myself recently and am loving it. Just the feeling of knowing there's no trackers on your site is worth it tbh.
A tracker is a tracker. Doesn't matter if it is privacy friendly or not. If I can block it, you bet I will.
I get this, and that's alright. The only reason I have tracking set up is to get an idea of how the site is doing. I should probably just record the events I need myself instead.
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#70I was not expecting it to work flawlessly with my open source LMS CourseLit which I am currently building as CourseLit still has rough edges. But it did! I was able to collect the analytics from my website and the setup was easier than that of Google Analytics. Great work.
:-)