The Original Problem (Still Valid)

Google Analytics sends every user interaction to Google's servers. Every click, every session, every IP address — all of it leaves your infrastructure.

For developers who care about user trust, that's a problem.

The alternatives were either expensive (Mixpanel at $28/month), limited (Plausible gives you pageviews but no custom events or error tracking), or painful to self-host (Matomo).

So I built my own. The idea was solid. The execution needed work.