Countly VS pirsch

* [Countly](https://countly.com/)

I suggest you use Countly, they have a free edition (Community) also its Self-hosted.

Happy cake day. Yeah, nowadays there are so many analytics variants out there: Swetrix, Plausible, offen, count.ly any many more.

Hello HN, founder of Countly (https://count.ly) here. As you might know, we are the creators of one of the first open-source product analytics platforms that has 10+ SDKs for mobile, desktop and web applications. We've been working on a new SaaS, myCountly, to help you launch your own Countly servers in any location, so your user data stays close to home.

We are going to do an alpha launch soon, and looking for alpha testers, please signup below if interested:

https://gocountly.typeform.com/to/ayGA2EOm

Some highlights of myCountly:

- Your dedicated, fully managed deployment(s), not a shared service

Is countly still operational? Can't connect to their website https://count.ly/

Countly (https://github.com/Countly/countly-server)

Always surprised more people don’t use countly. Runs nice in docker or digital ocean. https://count.ly. Been self hosting it for years with few issues.

Countly (website, GitHub) is also an open-source product analytics platform that is designed primarily for marketing organizations. It helps marketers track website information (website transactions, campaigns, and sources that led visitors to the website, etc.). Countly also collects real-time mobile analytics metrics like active users, time spent in-app, customer location, etc., in a unified view on your dashboard.

Pirsch Analytics (paid)

I was also looking for server-side analytics, created my own, and now it's a product! The idea is that tracking can be done from both, a JS snippet (for easy integration) and an API. Both rely on fingerprinting and almost provide the same set of features. The API just lacks screen resolution. The method is GDPR (and CCPA and whatnot) compliant.

Original article: https://marvinblum.de/blog/server-side-tracking-without-cook...

Product: https://pirsch.io

before this comes up again: Yes, we checked professionally with an external DPO and it was checked by some companies you've probably heard of externally.

Pirsch analytics is a great one https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch

Take a look at Pirsch. You can find a demo with real data here.

pirsch.io :)

I'm building Pirsch Analytics [0], a privacy-friendly web analytics tool. I think it took the two of us ~1.5 years to get to $2000 MRR. Currently we're setting just above $4000 MRR.

It started as an experiment for my personal website and I was in the same position as you're right now. We were already working on a Notion like app to take notes, but didn't make any money and probably went into the wrong direction. As my prototype seemed to work quite well, we decided to turn it into a product.

My initial goal was to do server-side analytics without the downsides of parsing access logs, but of course we now also have a "regular" JS snippet integration.

You can learn more about our journey here [1] and on our blog [2]. Let me know if you have any questions!

[0] https://pirsch.io

[1] https://pirsch.io/about-us

[2] https://pirsch.io/blog

Not saying you shouldn’t or anything, but Plausible, Pirsch, and Umami are already privacy friendly open-source analytics.

Pirsch has been easy and great IME.

[0] https://pirsch.io