I replaced Google Analytics with my own tool
no cookies, <1KB script
Details
- External ID
- 47659363
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I replaced Google Analytics with my own tool
- Website domain
- datakool.com
- Launched
- April 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7262210796915167
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Marketing
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- privacy-first analytics alternative to google analytics
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A cookie-free web analytics alternative consists of an ultra-lightweight JavaScript tracking beacon, an ingest endpoint collecting anonymized headers/hashes, and a simple dashboard.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Umami, Google Analytics, Peeekly
Concerns raised: No free plan for hobby sites, Unclear how it differs from Umami, Unclear customer acquisition strategy, Market skepticism about viability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 71 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 72 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 140 days after the earliest competitor.
- Cloudline · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore · hn · 2026-08-05 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Building My Own Google Analytics for $0 · hn · 2026-02-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Got tired of paying $100/mo for SEO tools, so I built an alternative · hn · 2026-05-05 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- I replaced my X analytics dashboard for a daily "what to do next" brief · hn · 2026-06-26 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Free URL Shortener · hn · 2026-08-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Pulse Analytics · ph · 2026-09-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I made a free log anonymizer in the browser · hn · 2025-11-29 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.