lindesvard

Great points

A bit more factors tbh. User agents have browser, version etc.

iPhone in New York block still have different IP, versions etc

But I hear you, it’s better than cookies and that’s the entire point.

You can also provide a user id, more info here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434115

When*

Before beta is over it’ll be easily self-hosted.

But since it free now there is no need for self-hosting.

Will make it easy to export/import your events between instances

Correct! Currently no batching but no need to make things complicated for now.

Can extend the current redis queue to batch request or clickhouse batch engine.

Looking forward to have these problems hehe.

Please DM if you want to chat about best approach!

You'll never know any returning users after salt changes. This is the hole point with privacy first.

But you have options tho. Compared to other tools that is privacy first, you can actually pass your own user id. You can get this ID from where ever you want (db, cookie, localStorage. Its up to you whom implement it)

But I want to have a middle ground where privacy is important but you have the options to decide what path you take.

So you can start by using the beta if you want to try it. I dont think I'll take any money until after summer (I have no rush here)

Currently the pricing looks like this: No tiers, you get everything. You only pay for events. So everything except events are unlimited.

5000 events - free

10,000 - $5

100,000 - $10

200,000 - $20

500,000 - $40

1,000,000 - $60

2,000,000 - $80

5,000,000 - $120

10,000,000 - $150

I hope to push the pricing model for things below 1m events. But its so hard for me to set a pricing model before getting to know how much resources I need.

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Thanks! Similar to how Plausible is doing. Each user gets a unique identifier which is based on `hash(domain+useragent+ip+salt)` (the salt is generated each day).

Building openpanel.dev which is a bit more advanced then plausible.

In reality it’s an opensource alternative to Mixpanel but so liked plausible so much so added all their features as well.

It’s opensource and you can self-host it.

All these are great but I was lacking more advanced features from them.

So I created openpanel.dev which is a combo of Plausible and Mixpanel.

Privacy focused as well!

Check it out https://openpanel.dev