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Daniel Schramm

Pirsch Analytics (Beta) - Simple, privacy-friendly analytics for developers

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Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics free of cookies. It can easily be integrated into any website or directly into your backend.

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Ali Alsayed
Looks promising. People were starting to be aware of the privacy issues in that past few years but now I think a lot are actively looking for solution. I think you're in the right place at the right time. All the best Daniel!
Daniel Schramm
Maker
@ali_alsayed Thanks Ali, we think so too!
Ali Alsayed
@ali_alsayed @danielschramm Now Just out of curiosity, What is your criteria of a privacy focused or privacy first product?
Daniel Schramm
Maker
@ali_alsayed @danielschramm In our case: Pirsch is not using cookies to track you across multiple pages as Google Analytics does. We only use the data every user sends for technical reasons anyway and we then delete them after 24 hours to only keep the anonymous numbers. So I think one criterion for a privacy-first product is to minimize the usage of personal information. There is no reason in collecting data if you are not able to draw conclusions from it. For most of the small to medium-sized pages, Google Analytics is way too much.
Daniel Schramm
Maker
Hey ProductHunt! We're a two-person team based in Germany and proud to announce the beta launch of our latest product! Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source web analytics solution free of cookies. It can be integrated into your website using JavaScript or directly into your backend. We put a strong focus on developer friendliness by offering an easy-to-use API, SDKs for different programming languages, integrations for popular platforms, and good documentation. The main benefit of our backend integration is that it can't be blocked by browsers while respecting your visitors' privacy at the same time. Pirsch does not collect personal information. All visits are anonymized and aggregated into meaningful statistics once per day. This ensures that we don't save individual page visits longer than 24 hours while you get the data you need. For details, you can check out the open-source core of Pirsch on GitHub: https://github.com/pirsch-analyt... The name is German and refers to a special kind of hunt: the hunter carefully and quietly enters the area to be hunted, he stalks against the wind to get as close as possible to the prey without being noticed. During the beta, we will make improvements, fix bugs, and add more features. Here is a list of a few additions we had in mind: * add more documentation * email reports * data export * more SDKs * goal, event, and campaign tracking (further down the road) We expect to move out of beta at the end of February. Everything will be free until then. You can find prices on our website. Let us know what you think! For support and questions, send a mail to support@pirsch.io or ask us on Twitter @PirschAnalytics. Cheers, Daniel
Csaba Kissi
@pirsch @pirschanalytics @danielschramm Nice. Can it deal also with sites that have e.g. 50k daily visitors?
Marvin Blum
Maker
@pirsch @pirschanalytics @danielschramm @csaba_kissi Hi Csaba, we are still tweaking our infrastructure, but 50k visitors per day are about 0.5 visitors per second and shouldn't be a problem :) We are running a small server cluster right now and can upscale relatively quickly if required.
Taha ahmed khan
Looks good, I will use it for my next project
Daniel Schramm
Maker
@tahaqadri Thank you, let us know what you think!
Marvin Blum
Maker
Hello Hunters! A lot has change since our beta launch, and we will soon re-launch it on ProductHunt. I hope we can count on you :) In the mean time, check out our landing page and changelog for all the good stuff that has been added. https://pirsch.io/ https://docs.pirsch.io/changelog/