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How simplifying our homepage helped increase trial signups(plausible.io)
2 points by markosaric 4mo ago|0 comments
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The boring way to build a startup(plausible.io)
4 points by markosaric 5mo ago|2 comments
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Things I hate about GA4(plausible.io)
4 points by markosaric 2y ago|0 comments
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by markosaric 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Could you please share what you mean by bait and switch? We're fully open source, we have a completely free as in beer self-hosted solution and we've only done two price changes since we announced the orig
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by markosaric 4y ago
Thanks! All existing subscribers are grandfathered to the price they signed up with. And we do have a complete free as in beer self-hosted solution.
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by markosaric 4y ago
Thanks for your feedback! We've only had 3 different prices since May 2019 when we launched and you can see them on GitHub as the code goes there: 2019: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 33% discount on annual bil
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by markosaric 4y ago
exactly! our first "viral" moment was on HN too and we only got a few direct signups that day but we would never have made it to this point without being on the top of HN that time
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by markosaric 4y ago
thanks for sharing! there's this saying in marketing that you should ignore anyone who's not much bigger than you so that's how we think about it. we focus on the tools with a large audience and ignore the rest as few people
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by markosaric 4y ago
good point, thanks! we had to shorten the top menu on mobile devices to fit all the important stuff so you only see "X filters" rather than the full filter as on the desktop
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by markosaric 5y ago
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
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by markosaric 5y ago
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
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by markosaric 5y ago
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year. For ou
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by markosaric 5y ago
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year. For ou
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by markosaric 5y ago
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year. For ou
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by markosaric 5y ago
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
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by markosaric 5y ago
hi! we use Paddle for all the payments. i've sent an email to them now to see if they can tell us more. in majority of cases when transactions fails because the bank refuses the transaction they tell us to tell you to contact your bank
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by markosaric 5y ago
Plausible has an events API that allows you to record pageviews and custom events without JS. https://plausible.io/docs/events-api (I'm the cofounder)
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by markosaric 5y ago
PostHog is more focused on product analytics rather than web analytics. It's a very different product to Plausible so we didn't really do a comparison with them. I would say they're more of an alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitu
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by markosaric 5y ago
the subreddit that drove the traffic to the post that was analyzed was /r/linux which should be more technical than the average subreddit out there
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by markosaric 5y ago
Depends really on the subreddit in question. The traffic to the blog post that was analyzed came from /r/linux which should be more tech savvy than the average web user and also more tech savvy than the average Reddit user (i woul
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by markosaric 5y ago
You mean like a page drilldown to see stats of the individual page? You can do that already. On our live demo, click on any page in the Top Pages report and the dashboard will be segmented to only show the traffic that visited that particul
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by markosaric 5y ago
What's wrong with AGPL that doesn't fit with our ideas? We were on the MIT first and got into a situation where a large corporation wanted to take our code and resell it to tens of thousands of their customers and they made it cle
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by markosaric 5y ago
This is probably a better overview of what makes Plausible a privacy-focused tool: open source, can be self-hosted, no connection to adtech, minimal data collection, no cookies, no persistent identifiers, no personal data, no cross-site&#x2
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by markosaric 6y ago
thanks, glad to hear that! and hope you enjoy this feature!
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by markosaric 6y ago
yeah, i know what you mean. we'll see if we can somehow put some kind of a custom filter on the top of the dashboard to allow this usecase or perhaps add a search box to the top pages report. need to decide which way is best.
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by markosaric 6y ago
You can advertise using Adwords without having GA.
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by markosaric 6y ago
Yes. UTM tags (utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign) are fully supported. And you can filter the dashboard by any of them. And you can also see which of them refer traffic that ends up converting on any of your custom events/goals.
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by markosaric 6y ago
BrendanEich has some ideas on the "trust but verify" aspects of this. Plausible is 100% open source with no proprietary parts but we'd love to work with Brave (and Firefox/EasyList/uBlock Origin) to provide proof to
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by markosaric 6y ago
Agree. This started as a feature for our custom events/goals as people wanted to see conversions on dynamically generated checkout pages for ecommerce. But turns out it is useful for the use cases we're discussing here too so we p
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by markosaric 6y ago
We haven't set it for our docs on the live demo but we have set it up for /blog this exact use case. On our live demo scroll all the way down to Goal Conversions and click on "Visit /blog*". This gives you a filtere

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