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poeticmetric

PoeticMetric is a free as in freedom, open source, privacy-first, regulation-compliant, and blazingly fast Google Analytics alternative. This is a mirror of PoeticMetric's source code. The original repository is on https://forgejo.localherd.org/poeticmetric/poeticmetric.

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What it is

PoeticMetric is a free as in freedom, open source, privacy-first, regulation-compliant, and blazingly fast Google Analytics alternative. This is a mirror of PoeticMetric's source code. The original repository is on https://forgejo.localherd.org/poeticmetric/poeticmetric.

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-05-01 10:43:10 UTC to 2026-05-13 16:09:47 UTC.

012023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It's not bad but it's a massive resource hog for what it purports to do. Shame that most of the self host analytics use things like typescript or php rather than more performant languages like Go. Speaking of which: https://github.com/th0th/poeticmetric Looks interesting but haven't delved in it too much. I do like how I can create specific analytic tracking events without worrying too much about ad blockers but that's hardly unique to Umami. There's also another interesting analytics open source project whose name I am forgetting. It was written in C or something and was efficient enough to allow free usage or self hosted, it was a simple hit counter I believe.
In I moved my digital stack to Europe
Hey folks, I built the free and open source, privacy-first PoeticMetric Analytics. It has both SaaS and self-hosted options. Source code is available on https://github.com/th0th/poeticmetric. Its stack includes; PostgreSQL for the single source of truth database, ClickHouse for time series data, RabbitMQ as the task queue, and Golang for the backend. On the frontend, I use React (Next.js, typescript and bootstrap) for a modern user experience. No personal data is collected. And it doesn’t use any persistence stuff like cookies, local storage, etc. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Cheers!
In Show HN: Free as in freedom, privacy-first Google Analytics alternative

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