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Creator of https://simpleanalytics.com
A tip for the upcoming ones: please tell us about yourself instead of repeating the job ad back to us. Leave your AI off for 10 minutes, and give us those spelling mistakes!
Although we are flexible to move days back or forth between weeks.
Hi HN, I'm Adriaan. Simple Analytics exists thanks to HN: it started with my Show HN in 2018 [1]. Today we're a self-funded, profitable team of four building privacy-first analytics.
Privacy is why we run our own bare-metal servers instead of the cloud. We're preparing for a LOT more traffic, and you'll own the infrastructure and its reliability. We have good documentation. First project: leading the infra side of our Elasticsearch to ClickHouse migration, with Alex, our developer.
Stack: Ansible, OpenTofu, Docker Compose, Grafana, GitHub Actions, TypeScript. Clear async communication matters more than knowing every tool.
You can apply from your terminal:
curl https://www.simpleanalytics.com/jobs/devops.md
– founder Simple Analytics [0]
This is not your average company to work for. We are a very small team fighting Google. We make the internet a little better by adding privacy-friendly analytics. You will have a ton of ownership, and to get an idea of who you are dealing with, check out the video [1].
Hacker News gave us our first 30 customers through this post [2]. We have always had warm feelings for this community. This salary is not high in the US, but feel free to apply if it meets your expectations.
[1] https://www.simpleanalytics.com/careers?deadline=hackernews (keep the params, the other deadline has passed)
I founded two profitable SaaS companies without VC money. In building those, I used a few rules to evaluate their potential to succeed.
Basically, I created a little framework to minimize the risk of failure.
The statistic that 90% of startups fail has been around for decades, but I don't think it's entirely true.
It may be true for VC-backed startups that must turn into a Billion dollar company or die. But fuck that!
The Silicon Valley way is not the only game in town.
The framework:
I called it "The most unambitious way to build a startup" because you will not change the world. The returns won't be as outlandish.
But if you're looking to build a business that changes your own world, this might be an interesting read.
Here are my four rules: 1) Is it B2B? This is where the money is 2) Is there a competitor making bank? Good! There is a market 3) Is there one angle to outcompete your competitor? This could be support, pricing, or features. 4) Are there SEO opportunities? People need to find out about you. For me, this is SEO, but it could be sales, partnerships, etc., or whatever your jam for growth is.
I wrote more in-depth about how I applied it to my businesses before I started in my newsletter (linked).
Hope you get something out of it! Cheers, Iron
35.5K MRR (+36%) >10K users 1330 paying customers 1.3 Million website visitors (+32%) 4250 Twitter/X followers (+100%) 1 Newsletter launched with almost 400 subs 0 dollars in funding
Just wondering though, the last release is from September last year. Any specific focus of the activities outside of the core product?
@Tim, If interested (and reading this comment), I'm happy to set you up for your website. Its on me.
Just ping me here: dm.new/iron
I just launched a new business and was looking for a “launch & growth template,” but I couldn’t find any.
So, I decided to write down everything that worked for me in the past.
I divided it into two sections: - Phase 1: Traction: How to go from 0 to 1 - Phase 2: Long-term growth: How to go from 1 to 10
Hopefully, this will help you to be on your way. Feel free to steal anything and use it however you like.
Also, if you have specific questions, just shoot a message down here.
[0] https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/how-to-move-forward-wit...
1. Since 2020, it's illegal to send personal data to the US because of the invalidation of the Privacy Shield [2]
2. Google said it was okay in the EU to use anonymized IP addresses
3. The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) [3] ruled differently and waived most of the arguments raised by Google. The DSB ruled that even anonymized IP addresses are personal data.
4. The Data Protection Authority of The Netherlands followed by implying that the use of Google Analytics might be banned in the future [4]
5. In February 2022 The Data Protection Authority of France (CNIL) followed [5]
6. In June 2022 the Data Protection Authority of Italy (Garante) followed [6]
7. September 2022, Denmark – after already banning Google Workspace for municipalities [7] – considers Google Analytics unlawful as well [8]
8. Now, February 2023, Finland rules against the use of Google Analytics [9]
This is a sound decision, but – as others pointed out – not a new one. It's a confirmation of what has been ruled in July 2020, but now it seems to have more impact when it happens per country.
PS: I'm the founder of Simple Analytics [10] - the privacy-first analytics tool that, unlike other privacy tools, does not use any identifiers.
[1] https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/will-google-analytics-b...
[2] https://iapp.org/news/a/the-schrems-ii-decision-eu-us-data-t...
[3] https://www.data-protection-authority.gv.at/
[4] https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/onderwerpen/interne... (in Dutch)
[5] https://www.cnil.fr/en/use-google-analytics-and-data-transfe...
[6] https://www.gpdp.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d...
[7] https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/denmark-bans-google-wor... (includes translated version)
[8] https://www.datatilsynet.dk/english/google-analytics/use-of-...
[9] https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/finland-is-latest-eu-co...