Building My Own Google Analytics for $0
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How I reverse-engineered Google Analytics and built my own analytics service for personal projects.
HN · launched Feb 11, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Niche: privacy-focused web analytics · 43 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Marketing
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Building a custom web analytics tool involves writing a tiny client-side beacon script, an HTTP collection endpoint, and a standard dashboard.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: GDPR compliance unclear, Commercial usage implications
Feature requests: Bot tracking with bot name identification
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 200 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #81 of 201 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 105 days after the earliest competitor.
- I replaced Google Analytics with my own tool · hn · 2026-04-06 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- glass-analytics · github · 2026-11-03 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- tinytraffic · github · 2026-11-10 · 228 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Clicks.page · ph · 2026-09-27 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Ownlytics · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Gnat · hn · 2026-08-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DataBull · ph · 2026-11-13 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Open-source and AI native web analytics · hn · 2026-08-14 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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