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Thanks for all the kind words about https://usefathom.com https://usefathom.com. We’ve been in business since 2018 and both founders now work full time on it.
by JackWritesCode 6y ago
Thanks for all the kind words about https://usefathom.com https://usefathom.com. We’ve been in business since 2018 and both founders now work full time on it.
We’re fully bootstrapped, actively rejecting millions of dollars in venture capital, and we are sustainable. That is the key. We are priced fairly, and at a level that allows us to ensure the longevity of our business.
We are used by governments, small businesses, multi billion dollar companies and individuals. Everyone cares about privacy and legal teams love us.
We are fully GDPR compliant and use zero cookies. A lot of people have read our article on cookie-free tracking, but that article is outdated now. We’re also launching a new method over the next few weeks which is game changing, which we’ll blog about.
Our infrastructure is highly available and runs across multiple servers. We don’t run our services from a single VPS, and have availability in multiple availability zones for everything. We pay premiums for our infrastructure because we take our customers data very seriously.
We allow you to set-up a custom domain in less than 2 minutes, comfortably passing ad-blockers. Or if that’s not your cup of tea, you can enable honor-DNT and respect ad-blockers.
We are built to handle billions of pageviews a month, we’ve poured hundreds (thousands?) of hours into refining our aggregation script, and we’re the leading solution on the market.
Don’t forget, we also offer unlimited uptime monitoring as part of your plan, sending alerts by SMS, Telegram, email and Slack.
Finally, we run a popular podcast called Above Board, where we talk about business & privacy.
If you haven’t already checked us out, you should.
- PhilippGille 6y ago> We are fully GDPR compliant and use zero cookies. From the GitHub repo [1]: > At present, Fathom Analytics Lite is not PECR compliant due to the fact that it uses an anonymous cookie. Our PRO version is PECR compliant, and we'll be making changes to this codebase some time in the future to make it compliant. The open source version seems to be lacking behind and might generally be treated without much love, given that their website doesn't even link to it (which is understandable from a business point of view, but doesn't inspire much confidence in its future maintenance). [1]: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/blob/69baac5c4a4d96880a28be1c82a519b43deda3b9/README.md https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/blob/69baac5c4a4d96880a2...
- JackWritesCode 6y agoOur goal is long term sustainability of privacy-focused analytics. We're achieving that. We tried to do it with the OS codebase, and the original tech guy left the project. The MRR was around $1,300 between 2 people after many months. When we focused on building a business, we were able to become a much more viable competitor to Google Analytics. The reason we haven't written off Fathom Lite is because we've always had plans to come back to it this year and put out an update. Will we be launching new features? No. Will we be fixing bugs and ensuring it's a solid product for individuals? Absolutely.