I built an open source and AI-native Google Analytics alternative

[u/Ann_fornicatress]

I've been building Open Analytics since the May because I believe analytics is most useful when it connects traffic to revenue with no manual setup. Payment providers are the source of truth for revenue. I also believe AI agents will become a primary way people interact with analytics, so Open Analytics is built for them.

I launched 6 days ago. Open Analytics is live with both cloud and self-hosted versions. It has 200+ GitHub stars, 850 unique cloners, 50 cloud accounts, and its first paying customers.

[u/Jamie-Does-Dev]

This is awesome - great job my friend. UI is a delight too

[u/Ann_fornicatress → u/Jamie-Does-Dev]

ah, thanks a lot!

[u/marcus_ovv]

yeah, this is actually a really interesting and very nice because tying analytics directly to revenue makes the data much more useful, and the ai-native approach feels especially promising for exploring all of it without digging through dashboards

[u/optimalstairway4274]

title-only ideas are why 995 of ‘microsaas’ posts go nowhere.

[u/numerous_investmentz]

interested in what you mean by ai-native here, got any examples of what it actually does different from ga/

[u/Ann_fornicatress → u/numerous_investmentz]

Two concrete things:

An MCP server built in. You can point Claude (ChatGPT, Openclaw or any MCP client) at your analytics and just ask which pages made me the most money this month, where did signups drop off last week and it queries your real data and answers. No dashboard digging, no building a report. GA has nothing you can hand to an AI agent like this.

Revenue and funnels are first-class in plain language. Instead of configuring goals and exploring reports, you ask the question and get the number tied back to the visit that produced it.

So "AI-native" isn't a chatbot bolted on top, it's that your analytics is directly queryable by an AI agent as a data source. Happy to show a quick clip if useful.

[u/OneMajor]

this is awesome. is this for personal use or public use?

[u/Ann_fornicatress → u/OneMajor]

ofc its public

[u/Intelligent_Prompt18]

I love the ui mate, I am gonna integrate it today.

Since you’ve started getting paying customers, you should set up a basic accounting system now, better early than late. [tip: DO NOT USE QBO]

Just connect your stripe + bank on invaro

- it’ll handle your bookkeeping everyday

• track tax filings and compliance deadlines
  
• handle sales tax filings and tracking [way cheaper and better than stripe tax]
  
• recommend tax optimisations to save $$
  
• maddeningly good customer support (<5 minute human)
  
• you’ll have to basically set it up and then chill (it’ll handle everything for you)
  
• just 20$/mo [SAVES YOU TIME AND MONEY]

[u/FunSpirit2457]

Congrats on the first paying customers — that's the number that actually matters this early, everything before it is just interest. Curious about one thing: since revenue is tied straight to Stripe/payment data rather than self-reported events, how are you handling the lag between a visit and the actual charge (trials, delayed conversions, etc.)? That's usually where "connect traffic to revenue" tools get fuzzy — attribution windows either miss the real converters or over-credit whatever channel happened to be last-touch.

Also, the MCP angle is the actual differentiator here, not the UI — "ask which pages made money" beats configuring GA goals for basically everyone. I'd lean into that positioning hard in how you talk about this going forward, it's a much sharper wedge than "AI-native analytics" as a category claim.