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Pirsch Analytics Reviews

1. Zep Fietje

   over 3 years ago

   After trying many analytics tools, only Pirsch met my needs. Pirsch is the most complete, beautiful and affordable analytics solution out there.

   🏁 Competitors: Fathom Analytics, Plausible.io

   👍 Pros:    Beautiful ui|Nice ux|Powerful events functionality

Google Cloud Platform mentions (210)

• Why AI Apps Fail in Production (And How Google Solved It)

  A Safe, Live Data Layer: Instead of testing in a vacuum with fake data, developers bootstrap ideas using Google AI Studio templates. These hook into a secure Google Cloud proxy server that grants pre-authenticated, read-only API access to live components - like playlists, videos, and channels. You get technical accuracy without any risk of polluting or crashing core databases. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• How to Stream Live Forex Rates to Google Sheets API: A Complete Guide

  For sheets that need to move in real time, pair our WebSocket feed with a small bridge running on a Google Cloud function. Our WebSocket candles guide shows a reconnect-safe pattern in Node.js, and the low-latency forex dashboard use case covers the same idea end to end. WebSocket access begins on the Plus plan. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• 7 Free Tools for Managing Secrets and Environment Variables in Web Projects

  Google Cloud Secret Manager and Azure Key Vault offer equivalent capabilities for applications on those platforms, with similar integration into the respective container and serverless runtimes. If your application is already running on a cloud platform, the native secrets manager is usually the right choice before evaluating a self-hosted alternative. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• This is Cloud Run: A Decision Guide for Developers

  Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless platform on Google Cloud that runs containers. You give it code, it gives you a URL. No clusters to provision, no nodes to manage, no load balancers to configure. You bring the code; Google handles everything else. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• 🦞 I Self-Hosted OpenClaw on AWS for $0 — No Open Ports, No SaaS, No Compromise (Using TailScale)

  One thing worth knowing: Google Cloud gives you $300 in free credits when you create a new account. If you’re just experimenting and testing things out, this is genuinely useful — you can run Gemini at full capacity for weeks without paying a cent. Just go to cloud.google.com, create an account, and the credits are much higher. Well worth setting up before you start. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Pirsch Analytics mentions (29)

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

  - And much more It feels kinda crazy that I've been working on this project for more than 5 years now and it's still exciting :) [0] https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch (v7 is the new branch) [1] https://pirsch.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics

  You can find a nice list of privacy-respecting analytics tools on European Alternatives [0], including mine, Pirsch [1]. I've been in this space for ~3 1/2 years, so if you have any questions, please let me know :) [0] https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-services [1] https://pirsch.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Hetzner Object Storage

  We've been using Hetzner for years for Pirsch [0] now, and so far we had a great experience. I migrated all of our data from AWS S3 to their new object storage without issues. We only use it for user pictures and small files (white-labeling logos and such). This is one of the rare cases where AWS is actually cheaper for us. It's probably more worth it if you have a lot of data. The only thing we're missing now is... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

  I've been running Pirsch [0] on Hetzner Cloud for 3 1/2 years now on a self-hosted HashiCorp Nomad cluster. It has been super stable and very cost-effective. The Hetzner VMs are really cheap and a lot more capable at the same time. You can find everything on our blog article [1]. In front of it are two Caddy load balancers, also running on VMs (Hetzner offers load balancers, but we wanted to support custom domains... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Using Analytics on My Website

  I was also looking for server-side analytics, created my own, and now it's a product! The idea is that tracking can be done from both, a JS snippet (for easy integration) and an API. Both rely on fingerprinting and almost provide the same set of features. The API just lacks screen resolution. The method is GDPR (and CCPA and whatnot) compliant. Original article:... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago