Design Engineer • Indie maker • Building @ Beacon

Vedant Nandwana  • Peerlist

<h3 class="rich-heading">Inspiration</h3><p class="leading-6">If you use or have used hacker news, you might have probably noticed how outdated the user interface and experience is of hacker news. So that's how better hacker news was born, a better interface and experience for hacker news.</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Features:</h3><ul><li><p class="leading-6">Simple and accessible interface</p></li><li><p class="leading-6">Fast and snappy</p></li><li><p class="leading-6">Fully open-source</p></li></ul>

Better Hacker News

<p class="leading-6">Beacon is a website analytics tool which is built on top of privacy, simplicity and delightful user experience in mind.</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Inspiration, and why I built Beacon</h3><p class="leading-6">I built Beacon because I was very frustrated by the user experience of google analytics, especially these things annoyed me a lot:</p><p class="leading-6">❎ Super humongous script size (&gt;44KBs!)</p><p class="leading-6">❎ Clunky and very slow dashboard, all the is present that I never need</p><p class="leading-6">❎ No privacy of users at all, our data is used for google's profit</p><p class="leading-6">❎ Very confusing user interface</p><h3 class="rich-heading">My solution to these problems</h3><p class="leading-6">So to solve these problems I started building an alternative to google analytics which makes much more sense, and it is way better than google analytics and has the following features:</p><p class="leading-6">🔒 GDPR and CCPA compliant, users own their own data. Period.</p><p class="leading-6">⚡ Super lightweight and fast script (&gt;1.4KB)</p><p class="leading-6">🍀 Simple and minimal ui, no bs</p><p class="leading-6">📈 Shareable analytics dashboard</p><p class="leading-6">👀 Fully open-source and transparent</p><p class="leading-6"></p>