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Easy

Swetrix or traffic-source

Privacy-friendly analytics and affiliate/Stripe attribution without Google Analytics or Mixpanel.

The problem

Google Analytics is a compliance headache. Mixpanel is a bill that scales with events. Neither tells a small shop which affiliate or Stripe checkout actually paid the rent.

Replaces

Google Analytics / Mixpanel

Estimated SaaS saved

$12,000

per year, small team, before lock-in

Deploy on Railway

Sponsor this stack

Placeholder: Swetrix as the alternate first Railway template if the AI chat box slips. Pair with a /data volume.

The stack

Cost table

You stop payingTypical / yearSelf-host instead
Mixpanel Growth$12,000Swetrix or Umami + Postgres
GA360 / extra attribution tools$2,400traffic-source for Stripe + affiliates

Agent setup prompt

Stand up self-hosted product analytics that replaces Google Analytics and Mixpanel.

Preferred: Swetrix (https://github.com/Swetrix/swetrix). Alternate: traffic-source for affiliate and Stripe attribution, or Umami if you only need pageviews.
- One public site, cookieless or first-party.
- Persist Postgres (or the app's DB) on Railway.
- Give the operator a snippet to paste on c17.io and a note on how to read campaigns vs. organic.
- Document GDPR/CCPA posture in one paragraph.

Also as markdown: /stacks/swetrix-analytics.md

FAQ

Will this replace Mixpanel funnels?
For a content + checkout site, yes. For a consumer app with 40 event types, start with Swetrix and add a warehouse later.
Is SEO covered?
traffic-source shows which campaigns and affiliates converted. Pair it with server-rendered pages, sitemap.xml, and llms.txt — which this site already ships.