Vince
Infrastructure
self-hosted web analytics
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CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Execution: 2 for, 3 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Code quality and efficiency; runs on a $6 VPS
From 3 comments
Code quality is pristine, really great job! I see that you've used protocol buffers, can you expand on why? I am aware of the benefits it offers but I think it adds a bit of…
written-beyond on HNThis is one of the reason I created vince. For reference, the demo is hosted on a 6$ vultr instance, the last 3 days it handled about 11.9K pageviws with 4.3K unique visitors. I…
gernest on HNThe demo, which survived HN hug of death is running on 6$ vultr instance. RAM : 1GB STORAGE: 25 GB so far bandwidth used is 3.6GB So, you can successful deploy vince on low spec…
gernest on HN
Single binary with zero runtime dependencies is easy to install
From 2 comments
Nice Work! Very easy to install and use. I deployed this on our cloud (excloud.in) in less than 2 mins. Anyone you can use the below k8s manifest to deploy it to their k8s…
lomkju on HNGreat project keep it up it's good to see competition in this space. Plausible gets crazy expensive on their hosted option and it complex to setup (needs elixir + high memory…
colesantiago on HN
Objections
Dashboard looks almost identical to Plausible
From 3 comments
Looks exactly like plausible, may be change the ui a bit to avoid legal issues.
pdyc on HNThat looks exactly like Plausible
XCSme on HNThe screenshot on your homepage looks very similar to plausible's https://plausible.io/ which is also open-source analytics software. Is it based on it? What are the differences?…
just-tom on HN
Privacy claims about IP hashing are questioned
From 2 comments
> Since IP addresses are considered personal data under GDPR, we anonymize them using a one-way cryptographic hash function. Um... hashing IPv4 addresses, even with salt, does…
chrismorgan on HNThe problem, in general with hashing IP addresses (especially ipv4) is that there's not that many of them. If I tell you the value is either 1 or 2, but I hashed it with sha256…
kadoban on HN
Pebble storage raises data corruption concern
From 1 comment
Just saw this notice: > WARNING: Pebble may silently corrupt data or behave incorrectly if used with a RocksDB database that uses a feature Pebble doesn't support. Caveat emptor!…
colesantiago on HN
Demo link broken or 404
From 2 comments
> Full dashboard demo hosted on 6$ vultr instance https://demo.vinceanalytics.com/share/vinceanalytics.com/v1/... 404 page not found
rgbrgb on HNThe dashboard demo isn't working :(
notRobot on HN
Requests
Setup docs showing how to add the tracking snippet to a site
From 1 comment
Going through the docs I find you don't actually have a bit about how to make your website to use it. I mean I can work it would and it'll be obvious to proper front end…
slyall on HN
Dark mode for dashboard
From 1 comment
Looks great! I found a small bug, if you click Expand in the Top Pages section, the Time on Page column has NaNs. Dark mode for the dashboard and showing realtime current…
sira04 on HN
ClickHouse or Postgres backend option
From 2 comments
Great project keep it up it's good to see competition in this space. Plausible gets crazy expensive on their hosted option and it complex to setup (needs elixir + high memory…
colesantiago on HNJust saw this notice: > WARNING: Pebble may silently corrupt data or behave incorrectly if used with a RocksDB database that uses a feature Pebble doesn't support. Caveat emptor!…
colesantiago on HN
Questions
How unique visitors are calculated and whether it is GDPR compliant
From 2 comments
It says GDPR compliant and no cookies on the project page. How are unique visitors calculated? And I'm assuming it can't link conversions to campaigns without some…
t0mas88 on HNAt least for Plausible, they state this (https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-cookies): > Instead of tagging users with cookies, we count the number of unique IP addresses…
beeb on HN
Pricing or licensing plans
From 1 comment
There seems to be some mentions of selling licenses (and pricing) in the source. What are the plans around that?…
vextea on HN
Alternatives named
Plausible
From 2 comments
Great project keep it up it's good to see competition in this space. Plausible gets crazy expensive on their hosted option and it complex to setup (needs elixir + high memory…
colesantiago on HNNot sure why I would use this over Plausible CE on docker. Does it consume less memory/CPU? Also I am pretty sure Plausible CE doesn't limit number of sites / events, unlike…
paradite on HN
GoatCounter
From 1 comment
My go-to self hosted GA alternative is goatcounter https://www.goatcounter.com. It would be interesting to know what advantages it has over it.
zoidb on HN
Umami
From 1 comment
How this compares to umami (https://umami.is/)?
gonafr on HN
Matomo
From 1 comment
Matomo is another one… https://matomo.org/
8ig8 on HN
Shynet
From 1 comment
can we compare it with Shynet? https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet Shynet is similarly self hostable, and has a tiny footprint..
QuasarLogic on HN