Show HN: A minimal analytics tool, using Redis and Node.js

1 rckt 0 6/6/2025, 4:39:17 PM github.com ↗

I made a minimal event tracking tool. It's on GitHub here: https://github.com/orangecoloured/analog

After some time jumping between different tools, I stopped on the https://piratepx.com and then decided to make something that would be easy to self-host.

Currently, it's adapted only for Netlify. Still struggling with the Vercel deployment.

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Show HN: A minimal analytics tool, using Redis and Node.js

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