Show HN: Lightweight, self-hosted, web analytics app

Category: observability

Tags: analytics, privacy, self-hosted, rust, sqlite

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Potoo is a self-hosted, privacy-focused web analytics tool written in Rust that provides per-site dashboards, breakdowns, and CSV export/import. It uses daily salted hashing for unique visitors and discards IPs and user agents after deriving country and device info, offering a cookie-free alternative to Google Analytics.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, privacy-conscious site owners

Repository: https://github.com/lmxrd/potoo · Rust · NOASSERTION · 2 stars

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