rrweb VS Matomo

Interesting project!

How does this compare to rrweb[0], the library that Sentry and many other commercial offerings for frontend monitoring use?

[0]: https://www.rrweb.io/

Congrats on being the only commercial company to actually sponsor rrweb[0] rather than just fork it and contribute absolutely nothing back (or in the case of Sentry - remove their copyright and violate their license).

Seeing as you're "open-source", why chose to fork and detach the project rather than contribute directly to it? With a detached fork, other users can't even compare your changes to the original and pull in fixes. If you truly believed in the spirit of open source, you'd believe in working together and giving back, not just taking advantage of a free lunch.

It feels like all these "open-source" companies are just closed source but with open-source as a marketing gimmick.

[0] https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb

if you want I can help to install www.rrweb.io free, DM me

In the end, I had to experiment quite a few times. First, I tried using rrweb since it was something that was already on my radar. The idea is I would record using that and convert it into a video using rrvideo.

I didn't think postHog was a good comparison either,

I knew of rrweb https://www.rrweb.io/

Great to see more open source contendants in the space

(something like https://www.rrweb.io/)

I'm indie/solo making Linkkraft browser (to make a living from it). Browser to be effective researcher & collector. It visualizes your steps as tree and makes html snapshot for your each step (even steps in SPAs like twitter).

Matomo just released their major v5 upgrade with following key improvements:

There are many good, lightweight, and open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, such as Plausible, Matomo, Fathom, Simple Analytics, and so on. Many of these options are open-source, and can be self-hosted.

You can for example use analytics that aren't spyware, and hence don't even have to try to trick users giving "consent" to things they don't really want.

Seriously: what share of people actually want their behavior to be tracked for ad companies to make more money?

https://matomo.org/

Matomo is a GDPR-compliant and open-source analytics platform. You can either host it yourself or use Matomo’s hosted version. https://matomo.org/

I tried the self-hosted version of Matomo [1][2] a few years back but I remember it was a bit underwhelming for the effort required to set it up.

https://matomo.org

It seems like you just want a self hsoted google analytics. Theres Plausible , Matomo and Umami for that.