Got 900 subscribers and paid our first salaries!
by Marko SaricIt's been a busy month in the world of Plausible Analytics. We just reached 900 paying subscribers milestone. We're on 904 paying subscribers with the MRR of $5,586 as of right now. Thank you all for your support!
In September, we've had more than 50 page views per second at peak so we've just doubled up our capacity yet another time. Plausible is now running on 5,185 websites and we've counted 180 million page views in the last 3 months.
Here's our development recap for the month of September:
We now fully support UTM tags
UTM parameters can help you get more insights into the dark traffic and identify specific marketing campaigns or pieces of content that deliver the best conversions. Plausible Analytics now has full UTM tag support out-of-the-box to help you in this process.
You can see how it all looks like on our live demo (you can find the UTM tags in the "Top Sources" report) and read this introduction to UTM tags.
Plausible Self-Hosted is out of beta
We released the stable version of Plausible Self-Hosted. Both our Cloud and our Self-Hosted products are completely equal. There’s no premium and exclusive commercial version with a better or more complete feature set.
The difference is that for the Plausible Cloud, we manage everything for you so you don’t have to worry about anything. We take care of the installation, upgrades, server, security, maintenance, uptime, stability, consistency, loading time and so on.
For Plausible Self-Hosted, you do it all yourself. You need to get a server and you need to install, maintain and manage Plausible on that server. You are responsible for installation, maintenance, upgrades, server capacity, uptime, backup and so on.
First salaries
While Plausible Analytics is an open source software that you can self-host for free, we also sell a hosted, plug and play solution as a SaaS. We’re growing a sustainable open source project funded solely by the fees that our subscribers pay us.
On September 10th we paid out the first proper salaries for ourselves. Even though our salaries don’t match what we could command on the job market, it makes us incredibly happy to see a green entry on our bank accounts, paid from our open source project.
We can now say that we're paying rent with an open source project. Pretty wild. Feels good and hopefully we can continue the progress.
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Congratulations! I love the product and the fact that I can have page analytics without having to show the Cookies pop up makes a huge difference in the UX.
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thank you Johnnie! that was the idea exactly :)
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Nice job! And very clever way to anonymise datapoints, I was wondering how you did the tracking-without-cookies trick! 🙂
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thank you Mario!
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Huge milestone! Congrats on all the hard work and perseverance to get there! Can't wait to get there myself :)
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thank you Thomas and all the best in getting there!
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Congrats!! The product looks great :)
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thank you Ido, nice to hear that!
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Nice, and it shows grit that you guys never quit regardless of the low MRR for more than a year. Truly nice work.
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thank you! nothing definitely happens over night so best to be prepared to put in some time and effort!
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Congratulation!!! @markosaric, really love plausible amazing work.
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thank you Ananta! happy to hear that!
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Awesome, you guys are the model company for all things privacy related. Loving your success!
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thank you Alex, appreciate that!
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Congrats!! That's pretty awesome. It only took you guys ~5 months to get there?
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thank you Tiffany! it took a bit longer then that! that chart starts in May last year :)
We got our first subscriber on May 14th 2019 and it took us almost a year to reach $415 MRR which was in April this year. But since then it's gone fast! From April 2nd when we reached $415 to $5,586 that we just announced today!
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Thats great news! Congratulations :)
Great product and landing page by the way. Definitely gonna give it a try soon!-
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thank you Simon! sounds like a plan!
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Hey Marko, congratulations.
I know a colleague in a rather large ad-depending company and boy oh boy is he fed up with google analytics.
Huge, heavy, bad-looking, super non-intuitive, actually illegal in Europe as it seems, etc. etc.
What stands out by just looking at your front page is the ease of use, clean UI and GDPR compliance (huge!!!).
Good luck and keep us posted ;-)One question: How is your self-hosted offer performing? Does this provide a significant portion of your revenue, or is this more of a side-thing?
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thanks for the kind words, appreciate it! our self-hosted is free as in beer. we don't monetize it at all. we may do something special for on-premise managed hosting in the future but we find that most normal companies and bigger websites don't want to self-host their analytics as that would require them to hire specialized resources to maintain the analytics servers.
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thank you! we'll do what we can to make it continue!
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that's great to hear Supun, thank you!
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