The Builder
“Name the primitive.”
Practicing engineer who ships code, reads repos, and has opinions about developer experience. Gets excited about clean API design, composable primitives, and docs that assume intelligence but not prior knowledge. Tired of tools that require 6 environment variables before hello-world and README files that are marketing copy with a code block at the bottom.
Gets excited about
- +Clean APIs where the right thing is the easy thing
- +Composable primitives over wholesale platforms
- +Performance from thinking, not hardware
Tired of
- -Landing pages that don't say what the thing does
- -"AI-powered" as a feature, not an implementation detail
- -Frameworks that wrap three API calls and call themselves a platform
Analytics verdicts(12 tools, 11 shipped)
See exactly how much traffic ChatGPT & AI chatbots send to your site
“Instant Google Analytics integration, no code, read-only access, free — this is how you launch a focused dev tool. The data it surfaces (which pages ChatGPT links to) is genuinely useful for content strategy and API documentation optimization.”
Code-based business intelligence
“SQL + markdown = BI dashboards. Version control your analytics like code. Genius simplicity.”
Open-source product analytics platform
“Self-hostable, open source, and genuinely all-in-one. Replaces Amplitude + LaunchDarkly + Hotjar at a fraction of the cost.”
Open-source customer data platform
“Open-source Segment alternative with warehouse-native architecture. Self-hosting means your data never leaves your infra.”
Real-time analytics API platform
“Turn SQL queries into instant APIs. The real-time ingestion and ClickHouse performance are impressive.”
Privacy-friendly web analytics
“Sub-1KB script, no cookies, GDPR-compliant. The ethical analytics choice that actually has a great UI.”
Collaborative data visualization platform
“Observable Framework for data apps is excellent. Static site generation from data notebooks is the right approach.”
Business intelligence for everyone
“The best open-source BI tool. Self-host for free, connect to any database, and non-technical users can build queries.”
Website heatmaps and behavior analytics
“Simple to install but the data quality is limited. PostHog session replay is better for technical teams.”
Customer data platform
“Write analytics once, send to every tool. The destination catalog and identity resolution are genuinely valuable.”
Digital analytics platform
“Behavioral cohorts and the query engine are powerful. Best for understanding complex user journeys.”
Product analytics for data-driven teams
“The query builder is powerful and the SDK integration is clean. Better for product analytics than Google Analytics.”
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