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SHM helps open-source maintainers understand real usage of self-hosted apps — number of active instances, features usage — without collecting personal data.
SHM - Self Hosted Metrics🛡️ Privacy-first usage metrics for self-hosted software
Benjamin Touchardstarted a discussion
How do you measure usage of self-hosted open-source apps today?
Hi everyone 👋 I’m the maker behind SHM (Self-Hosted Metrics). I started this project after shipping several self-hosted, open-source apps and realizing I had no idea how many instances were actually running — or which features were really used. With SaaS, analytics are easy. With self-hosted software… you’re basically flying blind. I’m curious to hear from other makers here: How do you...
Benjamin Touchardleft a comment
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I built SHM after shipping open-source, self-hosted apps, and realizing I had zero visibility on real usage. With self-hosted software, there’s no SaaS dashboard, no user accounts, no analytics — you’re basically flying blind. SHM is my attempt to fix that in a privacy-first way: • no user tracking • no events • only aggregated metrics • cryptographically signed instances •...
SHM - Self Hosted Metrics🛡️ Privacy-first usage metrics for self-hosted software
Ackify is an open-source, self-hosted tool to confirm document reading. One-click acknowledgments, automatic timestamps, cryptographic chaining, and easy Docker deployment for internal compliance and HR policies.
Ackify Ackify: proof of read. compliance made simple.
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👋 Hey Product Hunt! I’m Benjamin, and I built Ackify after several of my clients asked for a way to prove that employees had read internal documents — security policies, GDPR procedures, onboarding guides — without the complexity of full e-signature platforms. Ackify is: ✅ Open source & self-hosted (Docker) ✅ API-first, easy to integrate ✅ Generates timestamped, chained signatures...
Ackify Ackify: proof of read. compliance made simple.