Jan 31 2021
We're off Google Analytics - here are the alternatives we tried
I've been looking for a Google Analytics replacement since forever. For three reasons mostly:
I've been looking for a Google Analytics replacement since forever. For three reasons mostly:
As if 2020 had not been exciting enough, Facebook decided to ban our website 8 months ago. No links to it could be shared anymore, the old posts and comments linking to our domain were nowhere to be found. Triggered by some kind of machine learning moderation algorithm, our harmless little SaaS, which spits out one boring article a month (and gets three "likes"), was suddenly labeled as "violating community standards"
Developing an ASP.NET app (Core or Framework/MVC) still requires working with external web tools sometimes - for example, when you want to use advanced web-dev stuff like SASS/LESS, PostCSS, or modern frameworks like Tailwind CSS, or just simply being able to minify, bundle and "babelize" your JavaScript
Ever found yourself looking at the w3wp.exe process eating 80% CPU and wondering "what the heck is ASP.NET (Core) doing"?
We have just spent the last 24 hours fixing a nasty bug in production.
My previous post was about the things we do wrong
I should probably mention the things we're fucking awesome at.
I'm probably biased but I've always been a strong opponent of the VC-backed model and the "Silicon Valley" way of doing things - when a big "exit" is the ultimate goal everyone aims at.
When you have a small startup, you don't have enough hands for everything. Neither you nor the team. Not only that - your brain also tries to avoid tedious tasks, preferring to engage in fun and interesting ones instead. The benefit of being overwhelmed is there's always plenty to choose from.
Most remote work guides I see during these days of COVID-19, are all about optimizing for remote work in a remote company where everyone will keep working remotely forever. I haven't yet seen any realistic, simple, unsexy and "down to earth" guides on how to urgently switch a "traditional" old-school corporation to remote in 1 day.
