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Thanks for mentioning https://www.userTrack.net https://www.userTrack.net, I'm the author and still working full-time on improving it. Let me know if you have a

by XCSme 6y ago

Thanks for mentioning https://www.userTrack.net https://www.userTrack.net, I'm the author and still working full-time on improving it. Let me know if you have any questions/remarks about userTrack.

Semaphor 6y ago
Wow, that’s actually the first one (besides matomo which is rather enormous) that looks like a decent alternative to me with more than just bare-bones features. I’ll keep it in mind. And I really like the clear and to-the-point website. No, XCSme did not pay me for this comment ;)
- XCSme 6y ago
  Thanks for the kind words! To be honest, I did work a lot on it, 6-7 years as a side-project and one year full-time. I think feature-wise userTrack is pretty comparable to Matomo (including some of their premium features that cost 400eur+/year). I also recently recreated the entire front-end from spaghetti jQuery to TypeScript+React+MaterialUI and implemented an auto-updater system. This means that I can now implement new features, fix bugs and distribute the updates to users very fast. I am really glad that you like the landing page! I probably changed it like 200 times in the last 2 months (last change was 2 minutes ago). I still want to improve it (eg. some hero video actually showcasing the product, so you don't have to spend time understanding the demo). PS: I hope that the BTC transfer was successful and thanks again for the comment! (jk)
  - abraae 6y ago
    > am really glad that you like the landing page! I probably changed it like 200 times in the last 2 months (last change was 2 minutes ago). Hilarious, I have changed our new home page literally hundreds of times over the last few days and having looked at yours, I see inspiration for yet another change.
ffpip 6y ago
Hey XCSme. Your product is one of the best I have seen. Very deep insights, with a good interface. Ps: You probably need a better name. Since your website says it is privacy respecting, 'UserTrack' doesn't exactly convey that. Just something with 'Track' not in the name. And adblockers like uBlock Origin tend to block everything like track.domain.com. And just a bug/overlap I noticed when hovering over the delete button - https://i.imgur.com/aBA7cpr.png https://i.imgur.com/aBA7cpr.png
- XCSme 6y ago
  Thank you for the feedback! I did consider changing the name, but that's a lot harder than it seems (have to rebrand, change domain, probably lose all SEO, etc.). So far I didn't encounter any issues with ad-blockers (for users userTrack is self-hosted, so you can host it on any domain, so name doesn't matter there). I also rank highly for terms like "user tracking" which I think is good, as people would stumble upon a self-hosted alternative instead of some 3rd party platform like Google Analytics. In the end, it does track stats and users on your website, but if I were to start again I would indeed choose a friendlier name. I am aware of that visual bug, I do have a better solution in mind for it, unforunately I have to write hacky code to make it work (due to the limitations of the material-ui library used). I think that's a very minor issue though, and there are more important issues I want to fix before it, especially that it's not an easy fix.

by XCSme 6y ago

Thanks for mentioning https://www.userTrack.net https://www.userTrack.net, I'm the author and still working full-time on improving it. Let me know if you have any questions/remarks about userTrack.

Semaphor 6y ago

Wow, that’s actually the first one (besides matomo which is rather enormous) that looks like a decent alternative to me with more than just bare-bones features. I’ll keep it in mind. And I really like the clear and to-the-point website. No, XCSme did not pay me for this comment ;)

XCSme 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words! To be honest, I did work a lot on it, 6-7 years as a side-project and one year full-time. I think feature-wise userTrack is pretty comparable to Matomo (including some of their premium features that cost 400eur+/year). I also recently recreated the entire front-end from spaghetti jQuery to TypeScript+React+MaterialUI and implemented an auto-updater system. This means that I can now implement new features, fix bugs and distribute the updates to users very fast. I am really glad that you like the landing page! I probably changed it like 200 times in the last 2 months (last change was 2 minutes ago). I still want to improve it (eg. some hero video actually showcasing the product, so you don't have to spend time understanding the demo). PS: I hope that the BTC transfer was successful and thanks again for the comment! (jk)
- abraae 6y ago
  > am really glad that you like the landing page! I probably changed it like 200 times in the last 2 months (last change was 2 minutes ago). Hilarious, I have changed our new home page literally hundreds of times over the last few days and having looked at yours, I see inspiration for yet another change.

ffpip 6y ago

Hey XCSme. Your product is one of the best I have seen. Very deep insights, with a good interface. Ps: You probably need a better name. Since your website says it is privacy respecting, 'UserTrack' doesn't exactly convey that. Just something with 'Track' not in the name. And adblockers like uBlock Origin tend to block everything like track.domain.com. And just a bug/overlap I noticed when hovering over the delete button - https://i.imgur.com/aBA7cpr.png https://i.imgur.com/aBA7cpr.png

XCSme 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback! I did consider changing the name, but that's a lot harder than it seems (have to rebrand, change domain, probably lose all SEO, etc.). So far I didn't encounter any issues with ad-blockers (for users userTrack is self-hosted, so you can host it on any domain, so name doesn't matter there). I also rank highly for terms like "user tracking" which I think is good, as people would stumble upon a self-hosted alternative instead of some 3rd party platform like Google Analytics. In the end, it does track stats and users on your website, but if I were to start again I would indeed choose a friendlier name. I am aware of that visual bug, I do have a better solution in mind for it, unforunately I have to write hacky code to make it work (due to the limitations of the material-ui library used). I think that's a very minor issue though, and there are more important issues I want to fix before it, especially that it's not an easy fix.