Hey everyone! My name is Zack and I'm writing an ebook…

Hey everyone! My name is Zack and I'm writing an ebook on how to code your own website analytics software so you don't have to pay for Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, etc. Whether you're a solo hacker or a dev at a startup, I think owning every part of your site's analytics has some value:

• Privacy. The only people that will have access to your analytics should be you/your company.
• Completely customizable. The book covers how to capture/understand essential metrics such as page views and user actions, but you are free to create your own custom analytics. If there is interest I can do something on setting up easy AB tests and customer segmentation.
• Scalable. You can add as many projects as you want to your analytics dashboard and it won't cost you any more than just having a single project.

Upon completion, you should have a fully-fledged analytics database, dashboard, and functions to use in the sites you want to monitor.

The languages used are JavaScript and SQL. For libraries/frameworks, I am using

• ReactJS (v16.8.1)
• NodeJS (v10.15.1)
• ExpressJS (v4.16.4)
• PostgreSQL (v10.4)

I am open to adding other languages/frameworks if there is enough interest.

For deployment/database, the book will cover how to set it up in AWS.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or questions! I'm trying to hold myself accountable to finishing the book by end of next week.

You can follow the progress of the book here: https://leanpub.com/build-site-analytics-with-node

Thanks!
Zack