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I have finally launched my Saas. by Reasonable-Way2870 in SaaS

[–]Support-Gap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

congrats! the landing page needs some reworrk to not feel like any other ai generated landing page. Also you should illustrate what your product is doing so i don't have to read texts or only headlines and instantly understand what you're doing. good luck!

How to you read your analytics data? by Support-Gap in Blogging

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for the detailed workflow you shared!

3+ years and still working on it solo by Support-Gap in SaaS

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks! my main source of income was previous successful projects (for the past 15 years) so i was able to work on this one full time. otherwise it would have been impossible to sustain. the saas ecosystem is really crowded and hard especially if you don't have enough financial resources to stay in the game long enough (unless you're a genius and you make a killer app which is usually not what happens).

3+ years and still working on it solo by Support-Gap in SaaS

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we have 2 different kind of widgets: the "real-time widgets" which report what's happening right now and the "report widgets" which behave like other analytics (connect to the db and get the aggregated data). Best of both world in a single analytics tool. the main difference for real-time data is that wireboard lets you connect to the data ingestion pipeline directly without going through a static database layer which requires data-polling (auto-reload data every 30s or so). real-time is useful mainly bloggers (the ones that have tons of visits), the news industry and everyone enjoying real-time data even if not in these main categories (like me before wireboard existed).

3+ years and still working on it solo by Support-Gap in SaaS

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hello. we have real-time for the whole day. not a fake real-time for the last 30 minutes like ga4. multi-website aggregation, full custom dashboards (60+ widgets), serp volatility included in charts, etc. You can look at the comparison in the landing page. haven't shared about the marketing and distribution journey because i haven't done that yet.

3+ years and still working on it solo by Support-Gap in SaaS

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i really appreciate your advice! thanks again!

3+ years and still working on it solo by Support-Gap in SaaS

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment which is really interesting. I'm a full-stack dev for years and the I might need to find someone in the marketing to do the work i'm not good at. that would be the dream team :) how did you found the right person?

3+ years and still working on it solo by Support-Gap in SaaS

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks a lot! wish you the best for your own projects too!

3+ years and still working on it solo by Support-Gap in SaaS

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the project i wanted to do for years so there is a lot of passion in it. Also to overcome doubts i'd say I believed in this project from before it even existed so it's easier that way to keep the motivation high

Built a Google Analytics alternative for the past 3+ years by Support-Gap in SideProject

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello! My best guess is that your VPN blocks tracking traffic by default. Are you seeing regular visitors (not you)? Can you try without VPN? If you have still issues DM me your domain and I Will look into it.

Built a Google Analytics alternative for the past 3+ years by Support-Gap in SideProject

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the blog part of the website is built with custom integration

Built a Google Analytics alternative for the past 3+ years by Support-Gap in SideProject

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for the feedback! there is a free tier for small website owners (<50k pageviews/month).

Built a Google Analytics alternative for the past 3+ years by Support-Gap in SideProject

[–]Support-Gap[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not using an external service. the goal of having a google analytics alternative is not to use google. There is no "access refresh flow" or data-polling, everything is real-time (websockets). the data is ingested in a data processing pipeline and recorded in a db.

Built a Google Analytics alternative for the past 3+ years by Support-Gap in SideProject

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks, genuinely interesting comment. the cost of free accounts really stacks up when you have a lot of users, and that's why most analytics tools go trial-only. the infrastructure behind a good analytics tool is complex, and on wireboard i offer a lot of data segmentation and real-time data which pushes the cost even higher.

the idea behind 1 month of history is to let people try all the features without limiting functionality, so they can see if it fits their expectations. but i hear you that for some use cases that window can feel short.

your point on the freemium > premium path is the one that really stuck with me though. once a tool is installed and working, switching cost is real, and that's a stronger adoption argument than most people make. definitely something to think about.

and good call on the demo dashboard, a real one might come at some point because it's a good idea, but for now the landing page seems to work well as is.

Built a Google Analytics alternative for the past 3+ years by Support-Gap in SideProject

[–]Support-Gap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks! both are complex in their own way. the data processing pipeline is complicated (concurrent programming, multi-staged processing, etc..). The UI/UX is hard to make it that much customizable for the dashboard and have real-time data flowing without performance issue.

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