AdriaanvRossum

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How Simple Analytics calculates unique visits without cookies or fingerprinting(docs.simpleanalytics.com)
107 points by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago|85 comments
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
I think I can still optimize the extra generated data. And I think you're right about the 2 weeks being to limited. I will optimize my processing scripts (those are the culprit now)
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
I think you are right, I'm kind of looking for a technical challenge where I actually should just improve the current setup. Thanks for the link!
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
Thanks for your comment. I don't want a free product (should have been more clear) but I would love a free to use license. I'm more than happy to run it on my own servers. Actually, that's a requirement.
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Ask HN: What database should I use for analytics data?
11 points by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago|18 comments
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
Author here. Thanks for explaining your thoughts as you are Icelandic. Really appreciate that. It's not too easy to do research in a non English speaking country. I'm not a native English speaker, so forgive the typos. I wrote thi
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
Very meta information: https://simpleanalytics.com/blog.simpleanalytics.com?start=2...
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
I think it would be interesting for Hacker News to know what happened with the company that they made famous from the start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024277
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How we hit our $30k ARR milestone(blog.simpleanalytics.com)
261 points by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago|20 comments
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
This is great news. It was always unfair to me that you required consent but people didn't know that they did. I do think companies try to get around it by making the opt in the most logical thing to click for an average user. In the U
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
Yes, I have the same feedback: please use a modern icon. Love the concept though, nice work.
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Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?
261 points by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago|170 comments
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
Love what you are doing here. A few points: 1. I would rename the pixel.png to something like image.png. Never call your script anything like tracking, analytics, or pixel when you don't want to be blocked by ad blockers. We use hello.
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by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
As the founder of Simple Analytics I know a bit about the profitably of the company. It is making profit but it’s not enough yet to sustain my lifestyle completely. I do some freelance work on the side. As one hour of freelance work is more
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by AdriaanvRossum 8y ago
I think protection by the NSA is a though sell nowadays.
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by AdriaanvRossum 8y ago
These are helpful comments, I will make it more actionable, but please also understand I need to test if there is a market for it, first. So that is what I'm doing now and I will improve the product to show actionable information. Just
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by AdriaanvRossum 8y ago
That is by design. For a very short period I supported a free plan which had only public data. So that’s why you see the behavior. It will be gone soon.
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by AdriaanvRossum 8y ago
> You say that you do not store IP addresses, but why should anybody believe it? I can show the code, I will probably do this in my next blog post, but that does not guaranty anything. > Modern security is based on proof, not on trust
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by AdriaanvRossum 8y ago
Creator here. As a developer, I install analytics for clients, but I never feel comfortable installing Google Analytics because Google creates profiles for their visitors, and uses their information for apps (like AdWords). As we all know,
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Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics(simpleanalytics.io)
968 points by AdriaanvRossum 8y ago|264 comments