engaugeai

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   by engaugeai 6y ago

   Ah yes, I stand corrected. It is difficult to discuss these things sometimes as everyone has a slightly modified definition of "open-source", etc. I guess I did not see a valid reason why this project would be used as a dependency
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   by engaugeai 6y ago

   Yes, great questions! Polyform is an awesome set of open-source licenses: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/ The choice of license is perhaps ambitious / premature. It is chosen so that I can add whatever featu
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   by engaugeai 6y ago

   Thanks! The list looks great! :)
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   by engaugeai 6y ago

   To avoid dependencies it utilizes the filesystem for now storing raw data in CSV files but storing analytics (the information in the dashboard) as gob files. This is part of why it is simpler to deploy. Just build and run without setting up
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   by engaugeai 6y ago

   It is true that the raw data is stored in append-only CSV files. But the dashboard data / analytics data is stored in gob binary files. Very small and efficient. The architecture is stream-based analytics instead of query-based.
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   by engaugeai 6y ago

   Matomo is a pretty high standard of comparison, haha. So, thanks! Long term plans is to turn this into a self-hosted, single-binary Firebase alternative of some sorts. For example, current features in testing are things like funnels, AB&#x2
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   by engaugeai 6y ago

   Great question! This allows you to control your own data for later custom analysis if you would like. It also allows you to track custom metrics / custom data from the backend so that it cannot be spammed.
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   Show HN: Engauge – Self-hosted, Single-binary Analytics(github.com)

   38 points by engaugeai 6y ago|27 comments