I did it again... I didn't want Umami taking up 500mb of my VPS so...
Chris Gregori@codestirring
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Sep 06, 2026
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I did it again... I didn't want Umami taking up 500mb of my VPS so I built a tiny OS Go alternative that takes up 10mb.
Does it do as much? No.
Does it track views, referrers, events, Google Search terms, attribute against Polar, have realtime graph and MCP support? Yes.
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Does it do as much? No.
Does it track views, referrers, events, Google Search terms, attribute against Polar, have realtime graph and MCP support? Yes.
👇🏼
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Repo: github.com/chrisgreg/glan…
One Go binary, one SQLite file, one Docker container. MIT.
git clone github.com/chrisgreg/glan… && cd glance
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d
One Go binary, one SQLite file, one Docker container. MIT.
git clone github.com/chrisgreg/glan… && cd glance
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d
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No cookies, no stored IPs, no GeoIP database, no third-party calls at runtime.
Visitors are a daily-salted hash. Country comes from your proxy header or the browser timezone. Favicons are fetched by Glance itself. Map outlines are bundled.
Nothing leaves your box.
Visitors are a daily-salted hash. Country comes from your proxy header or the browser timezone. Favicons are fetched by Glance itself. Map outlines are bundled.
Nothing leaves your box.
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The snippet is ~1KB and cookieless:
Custom events are one call: glance('signup')
SPAs just work (pushState / popstate).
Custom events are one call: glance('signup')
SPAs just work (pushState / popstate).
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It speaks MCP, read-only.
Point Claude Code (or anything with Streamable HTTP) at /mcp with a token and ask "how are my sites doing this week?" or "where is my German traffic coming from?"
No LLM inside. It just serves the numbers plus a few signals like trend and spikes.
Point Claude Code (or anything with Streamable HTTP) at /mcp with a token and ask "how are my sites doing this week?" or "where is my German traffic coming from?"
No LLM inside. It just serves the numbers plus a few signals like trend and spikes.
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Connect Google Search Console and you get the actual search terms Google strips from the referrer.
Connect Polar and revenue sits next to traffic, broken down by first-touch referrer, campaign, landing page and country.
Connect Polar and revenue sits next to traffic, broken down by first-touch referrer, campaign, landing page and country.
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Footprint:
• ~37MB image
• <10MB RAM idle
• Raw events pruned after 7 days, rollups kept forever
A site with a hundred pages adds a few hundred rows a day.
• ~37MB image
• <10MB RAM idle
• Raw events pruned after 7 days, rollups kept forever
A site with a hundred pages adds a few hundred rows a day.
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What it deliberately doesn't do: sessions, funnels, cohorts, heatmaps, replay.
If you need those, use Umami or Plausible. If you want the useful numbers at a glance on a 10MB box, this is it.
Issues and PRs welcome.
If you need those, use Umami or Plausible. If you want the useful numbers at a glance on a 10MB box, this is it.
Issues and PRs welcome.
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This is tiny like Boop. I also have a tiny Status app to replace Kener coming soon, follow for updates.
github.com/chrisgreg/boop
github.com/chrisgreg/boop