My blog [1] has expanded commentary on the motivation:
I thought that surely in 2021, somebody would have built a simple page view counter that I could just plug into my dinky blog for minimal cost. I ended up evaluating all the popular alternatives: Matamo, Plausible, and Cloudflare analytics.
As it turns out, all of these are rather expensive. What should have been simple became bespoke and Toph was born. It’s a Cloudflare workers service that sits in between the visitors browser and Google Analytics.
I figured linking to the source code and README was more appropriate for Show HN.
Oh, and it’s called Toph because it is blind to the visitor’s personal information.
Toph knows everything about everyone in her general vicinity! You can't even lie to her! (unless, perhaps, you are the psychopathic daughter of the Firelord)
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My blog [1] has expanded commentary on the motivation:
I figured linking to the source code and README was more appropriate for Show HN.
[1]: https://zeroindexed.com/analytics
Toph knows everything about everyone in her general vicinity! You can't even lie to her! (unless, perhaps, you are the psychopathic daughter of the Firelord)