so... I built my own web analytics SaaS
483 days ago, I built my own web analytics out of frustration.
I was using Plausible and loved its simplicity, but I felt stuck. Pageviews are nice, but they don’t tell you what makes money.
So I built my dream tool: connect Stripe to traffic, and see where revenue actually comes from, so I can double down.
Almost nobody cared.
It took 120 days to reach $1k MRR.
But it didn't mind. I was having fun.
I shipped 117,869 lines of code to build features I needed myself.
My only KPI was (and still is) features shipped.
Slowly, word of mouth kicked in, and the SaaS started growing on its own.
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