105: Plausible Analytics, Elixir, and Privacy with Uku Taht

We learn about Plausible Analytics, a privacy respecting alternative to Google Analytics that is cloud or self-hostable, OpenSource and written in Elixir! Uku Taht shares how he founded the company, the mission he is on, and what he prioritizes. The company practices a “transparent by default” approach. This means they share a lot about what’s going on, this includes how they recently reached $1m ARR, some of their growing pains, and dealing with the weight of being “the one who has to fix things.” We end with a candid discussion about wellness in our profession and how when we are too close to the problems, we become blind to our own successes. A great, transparent conversation with Uku!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/105 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/105)
Elixir Community News
- https://2022.elixirconf.com/ (https://2022.elixirconf.com/) – ElixirConf 2022 - Aug 30 - Sep 2 in Denver, CO. Call for proposals due July 2nd
- https://2022.elixirconf.com/registration (https://2022.elixirconf.com/registration) – Early bird tickets are on sale
- https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio/status/1537502784790085634 (https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio/status/1537502784790085634) – CodeBEAM America (November) is accepting training ideas for their upcoming conference.
- https://hexdocs.pm/req/changelog.html#v0-3-0 (https://hexdocs.pm/req/changelog.html#v0-3-0) – Req v0.3 released with a new API
- https://hexdocs.pm/req/changelog.html#plugins (https://hexdocs.pm/req/changelog.html#plugins) – List of available Req plugins - reqeasyhtml, reqs3, reqhex, reqgithub_oauth
- https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1537405584710029313 (https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1537405584710029313) – Sean Moriarity shared a major milestone! The public release of Axon and AxonONNX.
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/102 (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/102) – Recent interview with Sean Moriarity about this work.
- https://twitter.com/elixirweekly/status/1538082201212006400 (https://twitter.com/elixirweekly/status/1538082201212006400) – IntelliJ IDE gets updated Elixir plugin, v13.1.0
- https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1538908870743101440 (https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1538908870743101440) – NimbleLZ4, for performing LZ4 lossless compression, released with the help of Rustler Precompiled
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Discussion Resources
- https://github.com/plausible/analytics (https://github.com/plausible/analytics)
- https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ/status/1532265765042376704 (https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ/status/1532265765042376704)
- https://plausible.io/about (https://plausible.io/about)
- http://elixirkoans.io/ (http://elixirkoans.io/)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7cLUygMeI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7cLUygMeI)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93CambridgeAnalyticadata_scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal)
- https://clickhouse.com/ (https://clickhouse.com/)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onlineanalyticalprocessing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing)
- https://github.com/plausible/clickhouse_ecto (https://github.com/plausible/clickhouse_ecto)
- https://plausible.io/blog/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app (https://plausible.io/blog/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app)
- https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ/status/1532265765042376704 (https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ/status/1532265765042376704) – Announced they reached a revenue milestone
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/ukutaht (https://twitter.com/ukutaht) – Uku on Twitter
- https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ (https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ) – Plausible HQ on Twitter
- https://fosstodon.org/@plausible (https://fosstodon.org/@plausible) – Mastodon
- https://github.com/ukutaht/ (https://github.com/ukutaht/) – Uku on Github
- https://github.com/plausible (https://github.com/plausible) – Plausible on Github
- https://plausible.io/blog (https://plausible.io/blog) – Plausible Blog
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