#Tips on Launching an web app

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abstract spoke
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I'm hoping to pick yall brain on an issue. This week's buildspace program s5 assignment is to launch the MVP version of your project. For a web application that doesn't requires log-in to use, what are the options for launching. In my head it's:

  1. A waitlist
  2. Sharing the MVP app. I can track usage through page views on the hosting service's analytics. But I'm not keen on spending money on something that may never be used by anyone but myself and has no expenses at the moment.

The point of launching is to build and gauge interest in demand for your idea. Any thoughts and thank you in advance.

simple patrol
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Are you looking for a way to track discrete visitors? Or what info are you trying to glean exactly?

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If I'm understanding it right, I'd be getting it on to free hosting somewhere, putting a cloudflare worker in front of it that extracts the client IP address and pushes to something like Mongo Atlas with a timestamp, and then promoting it in the usual places. You can track visitors that way and get raw data you can aggregate to see how many discrete visitors you got, how many times they visited, how many requests they made in a certain window, and order by timestamp to follow them around the site by URL.

Assuming I understand?

worldly path
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Matomo, Plausible (which i use and recommend), Fathom ...
there are others. some free, some open-source.

but FREE isn't gonna get your much data. for that you gotta pay.

unless you are okay with using Google Analytics.

abstract spoke
abstract spoke
vernal acorn
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Dynamodb has atomic counters and the AWS free tier is pretty good. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/implement-resource-counters-with-amazon-dynamodb/

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jade sky
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Hey @abstract spoke - What did you end up going with? I've always like starting with waitlists if I'm in the ideation phase or super early stages of building an MVP. Doesn't solve #2, but can help gauge interest. I've used GA/Plausible in the past for analytics, but also intrigued to try simpleanalytics which may get you what you need quickly without building a system yourself.

I'm building validfox.com as a side project as a streamlined landing page builder with minimal analytics currently. You can track view, and CTAs (join waitlist, or redirect to product)