Posthog is pretty good but very pushy towards using their SaaS (understandably). Self hosting is not really advertised on their main site however is buried in their gh repo as a footnote [1] with indications of vague issues past 100K events/month. Haven’t delved into how to scale it past that though and they do provide some docs that I have yet to review.
Also the primary repo is not FOSS, and that "100% FOSS" repo is buried in yet another footnote [2].
Plausible follows in PH footsteps but is not fully faithful to open source. If you want to self host, you won’t have same set of features as their SaaS and need to rely on long term releases for their "community edition" [3]
On "Ahrefs", is there even an open source version of their product? I couldn’t easily find it (on mobile). [4]
Maybe I’ll take a look at others you mentioned later but if rybbit can remain faithful to their FOSS roots then I think there’s a real chance of it becoming huge.
For thosw that don’t want to self host (mostly corporate shitholes), rybbit can milk them with their managed SaaS product.
I think Posthog is incredible, and there's no way I (it's just been me building rybbit for the past few months) will be able to compete with them on their full scope of features for the foreseeable future.
I tried to self host Posthog for my other project as it far exceeded even the generous free tier. I have a Hetzner bare metal server with 64gb of ram https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax42/ and it was running all 16 cores at 100% and didn't end up working. So I think Posthog's stack is just way too heavy to self host effectively, and it's just not in the same category as Plausible, Umami, or Rybbit.
I'm trying to build best OSS analytics out there - and even though it's super crowded, most non-trivial websites run one so there is space for everyone to survive in.
> "Self hosting is not really advertised on their main site"
How would rybbit.io make money if they are only better at self hosting? Wouldn't the users they are targeting only self host anyways?
> "On "Ahrefs", is there even an open source version of their product? I couldn’t easily find it (on mobile)."
Not all of these companies are open source but they are still competitors because they have generous free tiers so the cost of self hosting an alternative wouldn't be justified.
Yeah, this is why I think cloud-based with free self-hosted version doesn't work, because they are basically competing with themselves if the self-hosted version works too well.
Also the primary repo is not FOSS, and that "100% FOSS" repo is buried in yet another footnote [2].
Plausible follows in PH footsteps but is not fully faithful to open source. If you want to self host, you won’t have same set of features as their SaaS and need to rely on long term releases for their "community edition" [3]
On "Ahrefs", is there even an open source version of their product? I couldn’t easily find it (on mobile). [4]
Maybe I’ll take a look at others you mentioned later but if rybbit can remain faithful to their FOSS roots then I think there’s a real chance of it becoming huge.
For thosw that don’t want to self host (mostly corporate shitholes), rybbit can milk them with their managed SaaS product.
[1] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog?tab=readme-ov-file#self-h...
[2] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog?tab=readme-ov-file#open-s...
[3] https://github.com/plausible/analytics?tab=readme-ov-file#ca...
[4] https://ahrefs.com/