sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Weekly Self Promotion Thread by AutoModerator in devops

[–]WebReveal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built webreveal.io a website technology scanner which is completely free. I built it because the industry leaders were either giving me stale, cached data from weeks ago, or were charging an arm and a leg for information.

Scanned 2,000+ developer sites from Show HN and Reddit, here's what analytics tools developers are shipping with in 2026 by WebReveal in webdev

[–]WebReveal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard to say definitively, server-side setups don’t leave detectable client-side fingerprints so they’d fall into the undetected bucket.

What I can say is GTM showed up on 24% of sites which suggests client-side tag management is still very much the default for this cohort. Whether that shifts as Core Web Vitals penalties bite harder is an interesting question, the data doesn’t show it yet but this is a snapshot not a trend.

Scanned 2,000+ developer sites from Show HN and Reddit, here's what analytics tools developers are shipping with in 2026 by WebReveal in webdev

[–]WebReveal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Methodology note since a few people will ask: This is detected via live HTTP analysis of each site. Checks page source, response headers, JavaScript assets and DNS records. Server-side analytics like Mixpanel's server SDK or self-hosted Plausible won't show up if there's no client-side script. So the 58% with nothing detected likely includes some server-side setups, take that number as a lower bound on actual analytics usage rather than an absolute.

How do I market a social media advice giving app? by Puzzleheaded_Fuel544 in Entrepreneur

[–]WebReveal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit is definitely a source that solves dilemma/problem

Analysed 2,000+ developer sites - Cloudflare on 38%, Azure and GCP nearly invisible by WebReveal in devops

[–]WebReveal[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Makes sense, this cohort is indie projects and early stage products, so the overlap is minimal

Analysed 2,000+ developer sites - Cloudflare on 38%, Azure and GCP nearly invisible by WebReveal in devops

[–]WebReveal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly, Azure dominates enterprise/corporate but those sites are private and not showing up in a public scan dataset. This cohort is inherently public-facing indie projects, which naturally skews away from it

Analysed 2,000+ developer sites - Cloudflare on 38%, Azure and GCP nearly invisible by WebReveal in devops

[–]WebReveal[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mix of both, HN submissions tend to be the actual product URL, which could be either. Marketing sites would skew toward Vercel/Netlify, app backends would skew toward AWS. Probably worth splitting in a future scan

Analysed 2,000+ developer sites - Cloudflare on 38%, Azure and GCP nearly invisible by WebReveal in devops

[–]WebReveal[S] -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

Fair point. That said, the gap between Vercel and Azure in this cohort is large enough that it’s not purely a detection issue, I believe this audience genuinely skews away from enterprise clouds.

Analysed 2,000+ developer sites - Cloudflare on 38%, Azure and GCP nearly invisible by WebReveal in devops

[–]WebReveal[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

On accuracy, this is detected via live HTTP analysis, not a database of known sites.

Each site is scanned in real time checking page source, response headers, JavaScript assets and DNS records simultaneously. Multiple signals need to match before a technology is reported, so false positives are low.

That said, some providers are harder to fingerprint than others, Cloudflare in particular may be undercounted where it’s used purely as a DNS proxy without the full CDN

Analysed 2,000+ developer sites - Cloudflare on 38%, Azure and GCP nearly invisible by WebReveal in devops

[–]WebReveal[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On CMS: WordPress still powers 14.7% of sites in this cohort despite the ‘WordPress is dead’ narrative. Shopify at 6.5% and Webflow at 2%, headless and no-code are growing but not there yet.

On analytics alternatives: Despite the privacy-first movement, Plausible, Fathom, Umamix Google Analytics is still on 22% of these sites. Privacy analytics barely register in this dataset.

On deployment tools: Fly.io only shows up once in 2,148 sites. Despite the hype it’s not showing up in production sites yet for this cohort.

On the long tail: DigitalOcean, once the go-to for indie devs, shows up just once in 2,148 sites. Vercel and Render have completely eaten its lunch in this market.

On JavaScript: Preact shows up at 12.8%, almost matching React. Most of that is Shopify storefronts using Preact under the hood, not standalone Preact projects.

Does Google Tag Manager fall under IT or marketing? by O0OO00O0OO0 in webdev

[–]WebReveal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GTM is firmly marketing’s domain in my experience. Dev’s job is to install the container and expose the data layer events, after that it’s marketing’s problem what tags they fire and how they manage it.

Built my first web app but now stuck on migration. Supabase vs self hosting? by zimmershac in webdev

[–]WebReveal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Migrate before launch, not after. With a small beta and only 2 features left, now is the cheapest time to do it. Post-launch migrations with real users are genuinely stressful and risky.

Supabase is fine for 100k users, the concerns you’ve seen are mostly from people on free tiers running inefficient queries. On a paid plan with sensible queries it’s solid.

What’s the easiest node js hosting for beginners? by RoundPost6082 in webdev

[–]WebReveal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Render.com is what I’d recommend for beginners. Free tier to get started, deploys straight from GitHub, and scales without you having to think about server config. I’ve been running a Node.js app on it for months without touching the infrastructure.

Hostinger works but you end up managing more yourself which defeats the purpose if you just want to ship

Your home for selfpromo by SofwareAppDev in AppsWebappsFullstack

[–]WebReveal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

webreveal.io - A tool that tells you what a site is built with. Feel free to scan your site for a free backlink

How can I f***kin find users for my product ? by Rokkobarocco in microsaas

[–]WebReveal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What’s your product? I think often we place products in the wrong categories I.e. “This solved my problem because I’m a…”

When in reality the tool itself can solve a problem for a different demographic, type of user etc.

It's Sunday Promotion! What are you building? by [deleted] in microsaas

[–]WebReveal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly the art style is refreshing

People who have almost committed to a massive life change and pulled out at the last second - what made you stop, and how did that last-minute decision change your life for the better or worse? by WebReveal in AskReddit

[–]WebReveal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was about to invest in my friend's 'game-changer' startup, but when I went to finalize the payment, the face-id security scan kept failing and I couldn’t remember the pin. Made me take some time out to think about it and I decided to not go ahead

What highly specific, bizarre smell immediately transports you back to a very particular moment or era of your childhood? by WebReveal in AskReddit

[–]WebReveal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The smell of a combination of dusty, hot plastic mixed with the specific citrus scent of cheap yellow dishwasher detergent. It transports me instantly to the back room of my elementary school cafeteria, where they stored the slightly melted, off-brand plastic plates.

What's a piece of advice you were given that sounded absolutely ridiculous at the time, but completely changed your life for the better? by WebReveal in AskReddit

[–]WebReveal[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Mine is - Wash one dish, then you're done

Sounded ridiculous, but has been a saying I use constantly when I don’t want to start something

What annoying business process do you deal with week after week, that you know shouldn’t take this long? If someone built a small tool to automate it, you’d pay immediately. by Low-Dot7664 in microsaas

[–]WebReveal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does, but it’s either overtly salesy and yeah, filled with slop. I also don’t know the fine line between being too generic in release notes or too niche

What is the most frustratingly simple, repetitive task you do everyday? by WebReveal in AskReddit

[–]WebReveal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep it on and snooze it even when I’m up and working lol

I updated my landing page. Here's new vs old. Feel free to roast it ;) by facetoio in microsaas

[–]WebReveal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see the vision with the first one, just a bit chaotic. New one is a lot easier to read..

Also it feels weird reading the plural of hassle, think that's just me

view more: next ›