Regarding the pricing of the analytics, please reconsider. 1€ sends the signal “I’m the cheap option” and will attract cheap customers. In fact, everything below 19€/mo or 199€ sends that message.
It has been a tough decision, and I still have doubts to be honest. However, I personally would never pay for analytics more than what I pay for domain+hosting. Also, the niche of mid-priced analytics is already rather full - SimpleAnalytics, Fathom, Plausible etc. But there is nothing for casual bloggers/developers, who a) value their users privacy enough to pay for it b) do not have a budget to pay 200€ annually.
I think the similar problem exists in many areas and that's what stops people from moving away from Google and such - abscence of really cheap, simplified alternatives. For example, I wouldn't pay too much for the email, no matter how good it is. But I would pay 1€/month without a doubt. It's how we perceive the value of the product. No way the number of visitors of my humble blog is worth more than my cellphone data plan or my gym. But I realise that there are people who could say that analytics should cost more than a cup of coffee.
I think this is me, I've been looking for some cheap solution to get basic data, without the need of a cookie. I would self-host any of the open source but I couldn't find any using sqlite. I was even thinking about building something myself.
If may I ask, how long have you been working on these projects? do you have a full time job?
Thanks for the feedback! OnTheSamePage is the oldest one, I made it more than a year ago, but then got distracted with my relocation to Germany and all the related fun. Lalatabs was a very fun challenge - I made it during 24 days in December. Now it's time to turn it into a proper product from a quick PoC. Nullitics is what I started last week, but plan to launch in February. Somehow I manage to combine it all with a full-time job and occasional consulting. But I definitely need to slow down, I guess.
The reason I would advise against it is it severely limits the possible profitable cost of customer acquisition which makes sense in turn strictly limiting how you can market it. If you can create all your own content and want to pursue a 100% organic strategy then this will be less of a concern.
