[HN Gopher] Show HN: OnePageGA - Simple dashboard for GA4 like P...
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       Show HN: OnePageGA - Simple dashboard for GA4 like Plausible
        
       Author : johnnytee
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-11-15 12:41 UTC (7 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (onepagega.com)
        
       | johnnytee wrote:
       | Hey everyone, I just released onepagega.com. Like many of you I
       | was frustrated with GA4's UI/UX. GA4 is super powerful but it's
       | just so hard to use. I set out to solve this. I love the
       | Plausible UI/ UX but wanted it for GA4.
       | 
       | Would love your feedback. thanks
        
         | johnnytee wrote:
         | Forgot to mention, to sign up, just use your Google account and
         | select you property. Then a dashboard is instantly generated.
         | Not other setup required.
        
       | vikasprogrammer wrote:
       | This looks awesome Johnny , finally ga4 starts to make sense!
        
       | darrenwestall wrote:
       | I need this for my own product (www.paiger.co) to showcase the
       | traffic we deliver in an easy way. Would you be willing to sell
       | me the code but with a license that limits it's use to our
       | reporting only and a non-compete with what you're doing? Would
       | save me the development work and I'd happily pay for it.
        
         | darrenwestall wrote:
         | Alternatively - can you "embed" dashboards you create on the
         | agency package?
        
           | johnnytee wrote:
           | You can not embed yet, but we'll be working one public
           | sharing option soon.
        
       | wizzwizz4 wrote:
       | Is there any reason to prefer this over Plausible? GA4 has _lots_
       | of problems (user privacy, legal liability, AI-generated
       | statistics, tracker blockers) that Plausible mostly solves; and
       | if you 're self-hosting _this_ , why not just self-host a
       | Plausible (or Matomo) instance?
        
         | johnnytee wrote:
         | GA4 is a lot more powerful than Plausible, plus we charge per
         | site and not page views. If you want to self host than yes you
         | can choose whatever OS tool you want.
        
           | notpushkin wrote:
           | Yeah, but why use the more powerful GA4 if you want a simple
           | dashboard like Plausible?
           | 
           | Another concern with GA4 is that visitors data goes to Google
           | - not good if you have privacy-minded customers. (Naturally,
           | this shouldn't be a problem in your case as you market to
           | those already using GA4.)
        
             | victorbjorklund wrote:
             | Could be that more than one person in the company uses GA4.
             | One team might just need the basic stuff in a simple
             | dashboard. Other teams might need the more detailed data
             | you get from standard GA4.
        
         | troyvit wrote:
         | I work in an org where, despite the hell they put themselves
         | through with GA4 I can't convince them to switch to Plausible
         | or Matomo. Part of the reason is interoperability with their
         | partners, but most of it is the mentality that they aren't
         | paying for GA, and since its free they'll keep it. As you
         | already guess this ignores the tens of thousands of dollars
         | spent in stakeholders trying to figure out WTF they're looking
         | at in GA.
         | 
         | And that's the final irony. If I show this to our GA users
         | they'll say, "wow this is nice but we can't afford the
         | $20/month."
        
         | Zaheer wrote:
         | Plausible is quite slow for large sites
        
       | doctorpangloss wrote:
       | The problem with Google Analytics is it is blocked by ad
       | blockers, and events occurring after the first 2 seconds of the
       | visit are blocked in the social media apps' in app browsers.
        
       | constantinum wrote:
       | GA4 is like a free trial offering to upscale to Looker and google
       | cloud products(paid)
        
       | shortformblog wrote:
       | Not bad. Solves a problem. I'm sticking with Plausible but if I
       | was stuck with GA4 I would definitely use this.
       | 
       | You should consider a self-hosted option with a one-time payment.
        
       | johnnytee wrote:
       | Hey everyone, I'm the builder
       | 
       | Fun fact, I wrote less than 100 lines of javascript. Built with
       | Laravel and Livewire.
        
       | thewpguy wrote:
       | Just tried this for my site and WOW!! this is what Google should
       | have built. Thank you for solving the GA4 mess
        
       | chasebank wrote:
       | We've been a customer of Clicky for like 14 years. Even when GA
       | was functional, clicky was my daily go to.
       | 
       | I too was frustrated with GA4 but a couple months ago watched a
       | few hours of youtube tutorials and it really demystified GA4.
       | It's quite a powerful tool if you take a couple days and build
       | out the dashboards you'd like to see.
        
       | hbcondo714 wrote:
       | I rarely access GA on the desktop as I find GA's mobile app[1]
       | way more convenient and readable.
       | 
       | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
        
       | TripleChecker wrote:
       | Agree with the suggestion about self-hosted option. Is there one
       | yet?
       | 
       | A few UI/UX suggestions:
       | 
       | -On mobile, the on-click text shown when clicking individual
       | features in the pricing section are wider than the screen and cut
       | off
       | 
       | -A couple typos found:
       | https://triplechecker.com/s/947956/onepagega.com
        
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