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Gnat

self-hosted analytics as a single Go binary with MCP server

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HN · launched Aug 14, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views

Niche: privacy-focused web analytics · 43 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Analytics & BI
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes A lightweight web analytics collector and dashboard packaged as a single Go binary with an embedded SQLite database and standard MCP server is a classic vibe-coding project.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: diy-analytics

Concerns raised: SQLite WAL performance at 100k events/day scale

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2756 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #2326 of 2757 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.

  • tinytraffic · github · 2026-11-10 · 228 upvotes · similarity 0.79
  • Slite · github · 2026-09-12 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Open-source and AI native web analytics · hn · 2026-08-14 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • calculate-mcp · github · 2026-09-14 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Sauron · hn · 2026-11-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • MetriBee · github · 2026-10-24 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • topophany · github · 2026-10-13 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • komari-probe · github · 2026-09-17 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.58

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