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Are there any reason why you dont use currently available Open Sources solutions and decided to create your own? ( Other than it is fun to do it yourself :D )

I am wondering why in the past 2 years we went form having little to zero GA alternative to all of a sudden having dozens of them.

I am genuinely curious.

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This may just be me, but I'm very particular about my software. I want it to look and flow a certain way. So I wrote Umami mainly for my needs first. Plus it was just a fun project.

I always start side projects so I can learn something new. In this case it was Prisma.io, Chart.js, Next.js authentication, JWT and Postgresql. All of which I didn't know about until this project.

Pretty impressive you learned all this and implemented in just 30 days.

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