Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
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Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#2Hi everyone,
I spent the last 8 months working on a web analytics app that is completely self-hosted. First it was just as a small side project - but then I more and more liked the idea and added feature after feature.
I wanted to have a web analytics tool that I could easily set up on a new project, that is easy to use, provides an appealing user-experience and combines all the features of "classic" analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics) with functionalities like Heatmaps (so I only have to use one tool). Furthermore, I wanted to have full control over all my data.
I was so pleased with how everything came out that I decided to give it a try and make it a product (321 Analytics).
So the first version of 321 Analytics is finally ready and I wanted to share it with you.
I would be very happy to hear your thoughts and appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improvement.
Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#3Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access (https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data).
Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What about the database?
Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#4Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access ( https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data). Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What abo…
Thank you for your feedback. I will add some bigger screenshots - thanks for this idea!
The demo should be working however - if you go to the demo and click on "Traffic" for example there should be data.
I just checked again and it works for me. Could you try again please? Thank you very much!
Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#5Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access ( https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data). Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What abo…
I saw empty demo pages as well. Turns out it tries to load a local /analytics.js file which my adblocker prevented.
Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#6Looks interesting. I’ve been thinking about self hosting analytics so this is timely.
I didn’t see any sort of feature comparisons available vs something like Matomo/piwik or hosted Google analytics.
One thing that has kept me from self hosting and just using Google analytics is that I feel like Google probably does a good job at filtering out bots and spam where I’d be more unsure with a less mature option. Would be interested to hear more if you have a moment, though perhaps I could run both for a month and just compare the data.
Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#7Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access ( https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data). Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What abo…
I saw empty demo pages as well. Turns out it tries to load a local /analytics.js file which my adblocker prevented.
Thanks for the feedback. That would be an explanation that adblocks block the analytics.js file - I didn't think of that. Let me quickly do some modifications - I hope that it doesn't get blocked anymore. Thanks for your help.
Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#8Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access ( https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data). Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What abo…
As a shameless self-promotion side-note, I have written https://trackingco.de/ too, which is kinda open-source too, but has a hosted version which is free while it's beta.
But mine is much simpler and has much less features, mostly because storage is not cheap and I wanted to optimize to it.
Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#9Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access ( https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data). Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What abo…
I saw empty demo pages as well. Turns out it tries to load a local /analytics.js file which my adblocker prevented.
Yes, exactly that. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app
#10Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access ( https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data). Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What abo…
I saw empty demo pages as well. Turns out it tries to load a local /analytics.js file which my adblocker prevented.
I made a few modifications to hopefully prevent this "adblocker-error". Would you be so kind to check again? Thanks.