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lindesvardon Show HN: Cursor Directory – From a 3-hour build to a 250k users/mo community

Have also used it since day one. Impressive to see what it has become, hopefully just the beginning!

lindesvardon Show HN: Languine – Open-Source AI-Powered CLI for App Localization

This is great!

lindesvardon Show HN: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Thanks Pontus, exciting times ahead!

lindesvardon Show HN: Midday – Run your business smarter (open-source)

Lets go!! Looks amazing!

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

THanks for your kind words. There will always be people who wants to use cloud instead of self-hosting (me included if possible).

So I hope this will be feasible. Worst case scenario is to keep some features exclusive for the cloud solution, but fingers crossed I get a good mix of cloud users and self-hosters.

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Ping me on twitter if you need assistans! https://x.com/CarlLindesvard

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Google is free since they sell your data.

Clickhouse is expensive, compute on scale is expensive, development is expensive etc. Sounds like your best bet is to do self-hosting

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Hmm seems odd? Currently I have none but will probably add a TTL to clickhouse on 5 years.

And if you really need to prune data you could just use good ol SQL?

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

The pricing modal is a black hole sadly... I hope you will give openpanel a shot

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

I hear you! The "demo" is basically just a demo for the shareable overview (plausible like screen).

Here you have some screenshots what you can do: https://imgur.com/a/hxUPsvk

Features: - Create funnels, linear, bar, histogram, map, pie, area charts based on your events (similar to mixpanel reports) - List of all events (filter by any data point you send) - List of all your users (go into a specific users to see what they did) - Retention (if you use this you need to provide a user id) - Realtime dashboard

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

I better start working on self-hosting guide/script :D

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

I like this approach a lot. Only downside is that you cannot dynamically change groups and what not in a later stage.

But if each events were associated directly to a group (by the caller) this would be quite easy to implement.

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Sure thing! Will look into it more during the coming weeks. Feels like I have the most of the dashboard complete now.

But I really want to start giving the native app some love as well

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Im a little fart in space for mixpanel but maybe, just maybe I can push their prices a bit!

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Mainly the difference is that openpanel is a bit more lightweight and easier to grasp.

Posthog is a great product and really like it. Just want something more hands on but have the power to visualize data.

So I don't see posthog as a competitor at all. My focus is more about hitting the perfect spot between plausible and mixpanel.

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

hehe no need for the print screen then :)

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Yes! So its a matter of priorities. Is privacy or retention most important? Than you can decide how to track users.

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Glad to hear!

Foot note: And to be clear, I live in Stockholm but from Skåne ;)

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

@openplatypus have some good point but I want to clarify what I mean by "privacy first"

User information - By default we do not store or log any user related information. All information that is stored in our DB is general information. We see this as a important privacy for your visitors.

Data - Your data will never be sold or given to a third party. You'll be able to export, import and delete all data related to your projects.

Cookie - We do not use any cookies or localStorage to keep track of your users

Their are some big downsides with privacy first since you wont be able to track users over several days (get retention and what not). So I have decided to give my customers the option to do what they want.

If this is an important metric to them they can decide to pass a profileId to the SDK. Then we'll use this ID and will be able to track that users over several days. This is an opt-in feature and thats also why I say "Privacy first".

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Posthog is great and I love it.

But as others have mentioned. It’s way too complex and advanced for most use cases and that’s where we differ.

Heard that posthog also is very resource heavy when self-hosting it.

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Not a single line of code is from plausible.

But definitely inspired by thier overview and how the avoid cookies

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Have missed this feature. Would love to hear more and how I could implement this feature.

Is it a flag/field in the SDK that tells you I’m from a specific company or is it some black magic?

lindesvardon Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

I have thought about adding AI. But don’t want to add it just for the sake of it.