Observed arrival · 2026-09-14

Statsman Wants You to Stop Renting Your Stats

statsman.xyz Observed source

Editorial interest 84/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A privacy-first analytics tool for indie blogs, available as a free beta cloud service or an MIT-licensed, Docker-ready self-hosted install.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-14 issue.

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Statsman collects pageviews and referrers through a one-line defer-loaded tracker, then presents events in a live console. The page specifies a daily rotating visitor hash rather than cookies or device fingerprints, and supports SQLite in a Docker volume or Postgres for cloud mode. Its self-hosting example uses docker compose up -d --build, with an optional STATSMAN_ADMIN_TOKEN for locking the dashboard.

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