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Ask HN: Do you still use Google Analytics? If not what do you use?

by oliverjudge on 11/17/24, 6:56 PM with 2 comments

While I'm sure many of you run your own telemetry inside of your apps, I'm wondering what everyone uses as their set it and forget it, easy to roll analytics solutions for new apps, blogs etc.

  • by bootstrpppin on 11/17/24, 7:04 PM

    I really hate Google Analytics - especially the new version (GA4?). I find it so hard to use. The microcopy is useless, and the fact that it doesn't track identity makes it vary hard to see anything beyond macro-trends.

    My preference is to use old school SQL to report on transactional data, instead of event data. Sometimes I'll use a simple GUI like Metabase to visualise the queries and build simple dashboards.

    If I'm forced to use an event-based telemetry system I suppose I'd go to Mixpanel via Segment.

    My co-founder has also suggested we implement Posthog, but I've got no experience with it so far.

    Hope that's useful

  • by XCSme on 11/18/24, 11:07 PM

    I did build my own: https://uxwizz.com

    It has a simple PHP/MySQL backend, so it's easy to query the data directly or integrate it with other data visualization tools and workflows.

    Recently I also added text-to-SQL and text-to-chart, using ChatGPT, which works surprisingly well.