[OSS GAP] Product Analytics Lite #analytics #self-hosted #too-expensive #privacy
Pain: Small products need events, funnels, and retention basics without getting dragged into a sprawling analytics suite or cloud bill. “The Problem (and why I built this): I run a small SaaS focused on customer behavior analysis. Every week, I face the same nightmare: - Data was scattered across Google Sheets, Stri” — reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1q6e4dw/i_built_a_data_analysis_product_after_wasting_200/)
Why now: Small teams in 2026 are cutting tool spend and refusing extra platform debt. Mixpanel, PostHog, Amplitude are strong products, but they are packaged for bigger companies than small SaaS and other small teams. That makes a smaller, self-hosted wedge in product analytics lite unusually easy to explain.
Tiny wedge: Event ingestion for small SaaS and other small teams without Mixpanel-style pricing and platform weight.
Why this wins: Replaces recurring Mixpanel spend with a boring self-hosted alternative for small SaaS and other small teams.
Scope cut: Skip session replay and warehouse-native analytics in v1.
Stack: Node.js + Express + PostgreSQL + Web Components + REST API + webhooks.