Lytics
open-source Web Analytics with Heatmaps
Details
- External ID
- 46812949
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lytics
- Website domain
- lytics.cloud
- Launched
- Jan. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, I built Lytics because other offerings don't let you compare dimensions (all functionality is crammed into a SPA) and I wanted segment-able click tracking with accurate heatmaps. Lytics uses the Quarkus web framework, clickhouse for the backend, and it has a query transpiler for the reports and heatmaps. Heatmaps use a custom renderer I built, and for the best possible experience they overlay directly on your website, no iframes are used.It's open source so you can dive into the code or host it yourself.Live demo here: https://app.lytics.cloud/account/view/41832119/dashboardI would love to get feedback. Thank you!
Enrichment
- Theme
- social media scraping and analytics
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- web analytics with heatmaps
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building an interactive heatmap UI and tracking script is straightforward, but handling high-throughput event ingestion with sub-second queries requires custom ClickHouse optimization and resilient data pipelines.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a lightweight client-side tracker that captures responsive DOM offsets, an ingestion proxy buffer (e.g., Kafka or Redis), and a ClickHouse columnar database for real-time aggregation. The core technical hurdle is calculating responsive, DOM-mutation-resilient click coordinates against dynamic elements rather than naive screen coordinates. It requires specialized data engineering skills for ClickHouse schema indexing and query optimization.
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Competitors
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Launched 64 days after the earliest competitor.
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