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allentown Oct 25, 2024

I discovered @umami—an open-source gem that's a breeze to use. Deploy it with the unbeatable combo of Vercel and Supabase, and enjoy 0 costs until you scale. Check the guide here: https://blog.atrera.com/post/hosting-your-own-analytics-a-guide-with-umami-vercel-and-supabase/

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Hosting your own analytics: A Guide with umami, Vercel and Supabase | In the Mist

Just revamped this blog lately with Eleventy (yes, this website!) and I'm considering adding some tracking to it. Honestly, I'm not keen on using Google Analytics and dealing with cookie banners, so I went on a search for an alternative. After a bit of digging, `umami` looks like a great fit for what I need.

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allentown Oct 25, 2024

It only has 10k/m pageviews for 9$/m.
It provides docker deployment, but requires 2GB of RAM. The cheapest price of the cloud platform is more than 10$/m, which is obviously unacceptable for starters. And I’m not a backend person. I’m a little scared to deploy various services.

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allentown Oct 25, 2024

I was fed up with Google Analytics. Although it’s free, I couldn’t see my data intuitively. Then I searched twitter and most people recommended using @plausible. It’s good, but too expensive.

allentown Oct 25, 2024

If you want to integrate analytics into your website, this is a post that will save you $9 per month. Here’s what happened:

allentown Oct 14, 2024

https://ko-fi.com/focusapps
Thrilled to announce two unexpected Ko-fi sponsorships fueling my passion projects

Dive into the journey here:
FocusPodcast: https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast
FocusMastodon: https://github.com/allentown521/FocusMastodon
#kofi #buildinpublic #FocusPodcast #FocusMastodon

allentown Aug 23, 2024

FocusX: The ultimate cross-platform Twitter (X) experience, now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
[FocusX for Twitter on the AppStore](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focusx-for-twitter/id6450184089)
[Focust on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=allen.town.focus.twitter&hl=en_US)
#buildinpublic #focusx #focust

‎FocusX for Twitter

‎Please note: This is an unofficial Twitter/X app（a third-part Twitter/X app）, and we use the API provided by Twitter to improve some of the experience Tired of seeing ads and promotions in your timeline, being disrupted by tweets from bots and people you don't like, or just want a pure Twitte…

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allentown Aug 5, 2024

• Fully customizable tabs
• Play Twitter videos and GIFs without leaving your timeline
• Native YouTube, Twitter GIF, and Twitter video playback

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allentown Aug 5, 2024

• Clean and beautiful Material Design UI
• Extremely Customizable – themes, font related customizations – basically everything you’d ever wish to be able to customize, it’s all there for you. Tailor your perfect experience
• Powerful mute filters
• Night mode

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allentown Aug 5, 2024

Tired of seeing ads and promotions in your timeline, being disrupted by tweets from bots and people you don't like, or just want a pure Twitter experience back like the good old days? Try it!
It is a truly unique and beautiful app for Twitter with a lot of useful features.

allentown Aug 5, 2024

Everyone knows that I developed two twitter/x Android third-party apps
Focust: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=allen.town.focus.twitter
and Focust Lite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details? id=allen.town.focus.twitter.x

In fact, Focus Lite has an iOS version: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focusx-for-twitter/id6450184089)

Focust - for better post - Apps on Google Play

for better social post, third part client