Mixpanel was overkill. Plausible had no funnels. So I built Tracetics.
I was tired of paying $500/month for Mixpanel — so I built my own funnel analytics
Hey IHs,
I spent two days integrating Mixpanel — then saw the pricing page.
$500/month for funnel analytics. For a solo developer with maybe 200 users.
So I closed the tab and started building my own.
Tracetics is what came out of that frustration: funnel analytics for developers, without the enterprise pricing and the 3-week onboarding process.
The entire integration is one HTTP POST:
POST /api/v1/events
X-OL-Tenant-Key: your-key
X-OL-App-Key: your-app-key
{ "event_name": "signup_started", "user_identifier": "user_42" }
From there you build funnels in the dashboard and see exactly where users drop off. There's also a TypeScript SDK on npm if you prefer that.
Current status:
Launched March 25th
Looking for brutally honest feedback
Free plan available
Try it without signing up:
There's a live demo at tracetics.com — log in with demo@tracetics.com / demo123 and explore real funnel data. Everything is pre-seeded and read-only.
What would actually help me:
Have you faced this problem? How did you solve it?
What's missing before you'd consider paying for something like this?
Happy to answer any questions 👋
I ran into the exact same problem with cloud monitoring — Datadog was total overkill, the native Cloudflare billing UI was useless, and there was nothing in between. So I built my own for the same reason.
Curious about the schema problem though — what happens when someone pushes an event their funnel didn’t expect? Does it just fail silently, or do you surface the mismatch?
“Building a lightweight funnel tool for solo devs is a smart move—Mixpanel’s pricing gap for small teams is definitely a massive pain point.Nice idea, this could be a good way to test it. There’s a competition where you can submit it — entry is $19 and winner gets a Tokyo trip.Prize pool just opened at $0 so your odds are the best right now.”