Thanks for the feedback! Could you please share what you mean by bait and switch?
We're fully open source, we have a completely free as in beer self-hosted solution and we've only done two price changes since we announced the original prices in May 2019 (and none of these have affected any existing subscribers as they're kept on prices they signed up with).
Price reviews are really necessary for us to do as we're self funded and we've grown our product, our infrastructure and our team a lot since the original prices so providing our service at May 2019 prices would not be sustainable today.
Thanks for your feedback! We've only had 3 different prices since May 2019 when we launched and you can see them on GitHub as the code goes there:
2019: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 33% discount on annual billing
2021: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 2 months for free discount on annual billing
2022: $9/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 2 months for free discount on annual billing
Any price change doesn't affect active subscribers. They are grandfathered to the plan they signed up with.
We're solely funded by the fees our subscribers pay us so we regularly review our prices as we improve the infrastructure, product and grow the team to keep it all priced sustainably.
exactly! our first "viral" moment was on HN too and we only got a few direct signups that day but we would never have made it to this point without being on the top of HN that time
thanks for sharing! there's this saying in marketing that you should ignore anyone who's not much bigger than you so that's how we think about it. we focus on the tools with a large audience and ignore the rest as few people in our target audience would have heard about them. people tell us all the time how they didn't even know alternatives to GA existed before they found us and that tells a lot about the state of the market for millions of sites that use GA
good point, thanks! we had to shorten the top menu on mobile devices to fit all the important stuff so you only see "X filters" rather than the full filter as on the desktop
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
For our self-hosted version, you can install it with any cloud provider and in any country you wish. Even in the USA.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
For our self-hosted version, you can install it with any cloud provider and in any country you wish. Even in the USA. That's the testing one we had on our site as we're testing the latest release of our self-hosted version on our own website. This has nothing to do with what our customers place on their sites.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
For our self-hosted version, you can install it with any cloud provider and in any country you wish. Even in the USA.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
hi! we use Paddle for all the payments. i've sent an email to them now to see if they can tell us more. in majority of cases when transactions fails because the bank refuses the transaction they tell us to tell you to contact your bank or to try a different payment method. will get back to you with their response.
PostHog is more focused on product analytics rather than web analytics. It's a very different product to Plausible so we didn't really do a comparison with them. I would say they're more of an alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude and those type of products rather than an alternative to Google Analytics and other web analytics tools.
Depends really on the subreddit in question. The traffic to the blog post that was analyzed came from /r/linux which should be more tech savvy than the average web user and also more tech savvy than the average Reddit user (i would put /r/linux audience close to the Hacker News audience)
You mean like a page drilldown to see stats of the individual page? You can do that already. On our live demo, click on any page in the Top Pages report and the dashboard will be segmented to only show the traffic that visited that particular page.
What's wrong with AGPL that doesn't fit with our ideas?
We were on the MIT first and got into a situation where a large corporation wanted to take our code and resell it to tens of thousands of their customers and they made it clear they didn't want to contribute anything back to our project whatsoever.
We are a two person team putting our own time and savings into this and it could have instantly killed the project and the chance of becoming sustainable.
We changed the license and that was a simple way to stop them without changing our principles/ideas. Could have gone proprietary too at that stage but we didn't.
This is probably a better overview of what makes Plausible a privacy-focused tool: open source, can be self-hosted, no connection to adtech, minimal data collection, no cookies, no persistent identifiers, no personal data, no cross-site/device tracking etc
We're fully open source, we have a completely free as in beer self-hosted solution and we've only done two price changes since we announced the original prices in May 2019 (and none of these have affected any existing subscribers as they're kept on prices they signed up with).
Price reviews are really necessary for us to do as we're self funded and we've grown our product, our infrastructure and our team a lot since the original prices so providing our service at May 2019 prices would not be sustainable today.