I was using Plausible and loved its simplicity, but I felt stuck. Pageviews are nice, but they don’t tell you what makes money.
So I built my dream tool: connect Stripe to traffic, and see where revenue actually comes from, so I can double down.
Almost nobody cared.
It took 120 days to reach $1k MRR.
But I didn't mind. I was having fun.
I shipped 117,869 lines of code to build features I needed myself.
My only KPI was (and still is) features shipped.
Slowly, word of mouth kicked in, and the SaaS started growing on its own. 16 months later:
- $17K MRR
- 983 paying customers
- 1.2B pageviews tracked
I wanted to quit many times. I’m competing with giants and VC-backed startups, in an overcrowded market, for a vitamin product.
What changed everything was niching down: building ultra-specific features for my own problems and hoping others had the same ones.
I don’t really do marketing. Most users come from word of mouth. But today is special. I never truly launched DataFast, so I made this video to finally do it. Hope you like it!
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@marclou THE best product introduction video I've seen. And I've seen a shit ton of them :) BEAUTIFUL. Will be taking a tour and exploring features. Just two questions (with Leo clapping his hands off in the background): 1- Pricing? 2- Do you get rid of Google Analaytics (GA4) completely or keep it and build on top of it? Say a Shopify Store.
3- Give me a totally random fact that I would find super interesting.
4- How does implementation (the 3 minutes) usually go? Code snippet installed on the CMS itself?
5- You win product video of the year, hands down mate. Hear that @Product Hunt ?
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I switched from Google Analytics to DataFast. Thought: Well, lets just try it out with the free tier but I will most likely stick to Google Analytics. What else could DataFast offer which I dont get already included in GA?
BOY WAS I WRONG!
After using DataFast I will never ever use GA again. My mind was blown when I saw, how cool, userfriendly and innovative a analytics tool can be.
Tracking goal, custom funnels, live maps, X (Twitter) integration and so so much more! The best part? The setup literally takes only 5 minutes. That is not a marketing slogan, it is the truth.
Do yourself a favor, invest half an hour and $0 into getting dataFast setup, explore it and thank Marc later.
Support for the 🇫🇷 goat ! Tried the product a few months back, huge value to understand where people are coming from. Huge leverage on your marketing/sales pushes!
Feels sane. Tired of guessing which clicks pay rent. Stripe + traffic is exactly what I wanted Plausible to do. How do you handle multi-touch and refunds? Bookmarked to test on my tiny SaaS this weekend. Nice ship, Marc.
IndiePage
Hey Hunters, it's Marc!
483 days ago, I built my own web analytics out of frustration.
I was using Plausible and loved its simplicity, but I felt stuck. Pageviews are nice, but they don’t tell you what makes money.
So I built my dream tool: connect Stripe to traffic, and see where revenue actually comes from, so I can double down.
Almost nobody cared.
It took 120 days to reach $1k MRR.
But I didn't mind. I was having fun.
I shipped 117,869 lines of code to build features I needed myself.
My only KPI was (and still is) features shipped.
Slowly, word of mouth kicked in, and the SaaS started growing on its own. 16 months later:
- $17K MRR
- 983 paying customers
- 1.2B pageviews tracked
I wanted to quit many times. I’m competing with giants and VC-backed startups, in an overcrowded market, for a vitamin product.
What changed everything was niching down: building ultra-specific features for my own problems and hoping others had the same ones.
I don’t really do marketing. Most users come from word of mouth. But today is special. I never truly launched DataFast, so I made this video to finally do it. Hope you like it!
@marclou THE best product introduction video I've seen. And I've seen a shit ton of them :) BEAUTIFUL.
Will be taking a tour and exploring features.
Just two questions (with Leo clapping his hands off in the background):
1- Pricing?
2- Do you get rid of Google Analaytics (GA4) completely or keep it and build on top of it? Say a Shopify Store.
3- Give me a totally random fact that I would find super interesting.
4- How does implementation (the 3 minutes) usually go? Code snippet installed on the CMS itself?
5- You win product video of the year, hands down mate. Hear that @Product Hunt ?
I switched from Google Analytics to DataFast.
Thought: Well, lets just try it out with the free tier but I will most likely stick to Google Analytics.
What else could DataFast offer which I dont get already included in GA?
BOY WAS I WRONG!
After using DataFast I will never ever use GA again.
My mind was blown when I saw, how cool, userfriendly and innovative a analytics tool can be.
Tracking goal, custom funnels, live maps, X (Twitter) integration and so so much more!
The best part? The setup literally takes only 5 minutes. That is not a marketing slogan, it is the truth.
Do yourself a favor, invest half an hour and $0 into getting dataFast setup, explore it and thank Marc later.
IndiePage
@aleksdoescode I can't describe how happy this makes me 😭😭😭 Thanks for your super kind words Aleksandar ❤️
@marclou Always! You have earned it!
Supabase
Congrats on the launch @marclou ✨🎉 Super excited!!
IndiePage
@mcnaveen thank you boss <333
Calk AI
Support for the 🇫🇷 goat ! Tried the product a few months back, huge value to understand where people are coming from. Huge leverage on your marketing/sales pushes!
Bravo Monsieur 🥖
IndiePage
@quentin_fournier_martin Merci chef!
DataFast
RIP boring analytics!
IndiePage
@wahabshaikh we cooking!! 💪
SyncSignature
IndiePage
@neelptl2602 Appreciate you boss!
Product Hunt Wrapped 2025
Feels sane. Tired of guessing which clicks pay rent. Stripe + traffic is exactly what I wanted Plausible to do. How do you handle multi-touch and refunds? Bookmarked to test on my tiny SaaS this weekend. Nice ship, Marc.