AppTelemetry
Privacy-first lightweight analytics for apps
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Daniel πŸš€ Jilg

AppTelemetry - Privacy-first lightweight analytics for apps

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AppTelemetry is a new service that helps app and web developers improve their product by supplying immediate, accurate analytics data while users use your app. And the best part: It's all anonymized so your users' data stays private!

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Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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Hi I'm Daniel! I worked at various privacy-conscious companies such as @getkeepsafe and @cliqz because I love creating cool things without selling out users' personal data. After going indie, I wanted to know how my apps were doing, so I hacked up a quick dashboard of how many users each app had per day, what were the retention numbers, which kinds of features did people use? All of this of course armed with the experience of how to run statistical analysis of large anonymous datasets to get the insights I wanted without compromising user privacy. Privacy is super important, but this also has a net benefit: You don't need to throw up a banner asking for permission to share users' private data if you never upload that anywhere to begin with. After hacking on the dashboard for a while it occurred to me that every developer who does not want to use the big free analytics tools kinda has to create an analytics solution themselves, or just use Apple's, which is nice but doesn't give you a whole lot of data. So I set out to change that. Huge apps already have their own analytics, but what about medium-sized and small apps? After quite some wrangling with big data tools to be able to accept a really large number of signals/events and still have good performance, I present to you AppTelemetry. Tell me what you think, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Vivek
wow the ui looks great.
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@vivekweb2013 thanks a lot!!
LukΓ‘Ε‘ Petr
This looks very useful, congratulations on launching! Especially with App Tracking Transparency now fully in effect on iOS 14.5, I am on the lookout for new analytics solutions and this seems great.
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@luksape Awesome, and yes that's pretty good timing! I can confirm that [AppTelemetry does not require ATT](https://apptelemetry.io/pages/ap...)
Kirill Tereshchenko
So huge work, can't believe that you make it solo. Amazing! Look forward to js client
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@rtkirill Thank you very much! It's indeed a LOT of work, but its super fun and rewarding as well. There's some info on how to send signals from web pages in the docs
Kirill Tereshchenko
@breakthesystem πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘
ayberk bozkus
It seems useful, which languages ​​and framework do you support?
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@ayberkbozkus Thank you very much! Currently there is a finished package for swift and [docs for Javascript](https://apptelemetry.io/pages/we...). Kotlin/Java and Python support are in the pipeline
Benoit Chambon
Nice dashboard, is it an in-house creation?
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@benoit_chambon thanks! Yup, all self made!
Florian Albrecht
Hey Daniel, been watching this over the last months, and it looks really intriguing, will try very soon. Congrats, great job!
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@flo_muc That means a lot, coming from you! Thanks! :)
Wilson Bright
Is there a self hosting available? also pricing..
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@wilsonbright Thanks for the question! There'll be 3 tiers: free, 9 euro or dollars per month, and 69 euros or dollars per month. I'll decide during the beta how many signals (aka events) free tier users get, but with my current limits (which I don't want to name because they might change) various apps that have over 30k users are still in the free tier. Right now I'm not planning to offer self-hosting. I'm not strongly opposed to it, it's just that to be able to offer good performance, I need a bunch of tools that are hard to set up and need pretty beefy servers.
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@wilsonbright To Clarify: There is going to be a paid on-premise option at some point in the near future, but I still have to figure that out.
Jim Engine
Simple and powerful πŸ’ͺ🏻
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@officialexaking Thank you <3
Ryan
Great work on this amazing tool! πŸ”₯
Daniel πŸš€ Jilg
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@thatvirtualboy Thank you!!!