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The line you just cited from the article were my personal feelings/emotions while giving it a try, published in a personal post, on my personal publication, and if I decide after that, that it is not the alternative I was looking for, it is simply a personal decision.

Also, I am not *praising* StoryGraph but simply add an overview of it after it got suggested by a couple of readers.

I have a bunch of bookcases at home, thank you for your suggestion. However, I will keep using apps, since that bookcase is not really helpful when I am visiting a book store, strolling around, and adding new books to my wishlist or checking if I already own it. The bookcase also does not recommend me new books based on my reading habits, sadly.

Oh, that one looks awesome too, thank you for the recommendation, will update the post and add that one too. Thanks!

Updated the post and added it as an alternative, thank you for the suggestion.

Hey, author here. First of all, thank you for sharing my post on Hacker News, and secondly, thank you for all the comments. Based on them, I updated the post and added StoryGraph and BookWyrm to the post, both lovely recommendations and alternatives.

Noted, thank you for the suggestion, will add it to the post!

Hey, author of the blog post here! Thank you for your suggestion, I really like the idea, I will consider adding it to the post.

If you want you can also check out the Airtable database I have created, which lets you conveniently browse and sort all the services mentioned within the post.

Yeah, I just mentioned exactly that.

I did indeed think about adding Matomo to the list, but my main focus was to highlight products by Indie hackers, Solopreneurs, and small teams. But you are right, as Matomo is open-source and probably one of the biggest (if not the) competitor to GA I should definitely include in the list.

Exactly! GA isn't stupid simple, GoatCounter is indeed, and it gives you all the basic insights you need.

My point is that a lot of folks use GA although they do not need to, but they are using it simply because it is a Google product and the most popular solution out there.

What I mean is, that you do not need to use GA on your portfolio website or blog. I agree with you that some of the alternatives mentioned lack in enterprise features. Also, therefore most of the mentioned alternatives are not competing with GA, but they are a more suitable solution for folks who simply want to get insights about the traffic happening on their website, lightweight, simple, and minimal.

Wow, Pirsch looks absolutely beautiful. I am going to add it to the list straight away, thank you for mentioning it.

I am also going to link to your list as there are more alternatives that I have not mentioned.

I totally get your point! The thing is, in my opinion loads of people use GA simply because they do not know of any other alternatives, and among them there might be folks who do not need GA in first place because they simply want to get some insights about the traffic happening on their website, because it would be interesting for them to know.

For those folks, I would recommend to use a GA alternative (for example one from the list).

But you are right, at the top enterprise level, for folks focusing on marketing measures and decisions, most of the GA alternatives might not be suitable simply because they are missing some features.