We rebuilt our entire application

We had technical debt, a framework nobody knew and a bottleneck from hell. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 1 year ago

Our small company built EU Isolation to comply with GDPR

The EU didn't think it was possible to comply with their new ruling, so we decided to prove them wrong and build it. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 2 years ago

We Ditched DynamoDB

After being very publicly excited about DynamoDB for over a year, we’ve now completely ditched it. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 2 years ago

Carrd – a single-page site builder is now a venture-backed company

Why Carrd turned away from their bootstrapping roots and raised millions of dollars. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 2 years ago

We prioritize support over sales in our SaaS business

We put significant effort into customer support: not just answering emails quickly and respectfully, but making sure we understand the problem to either solve it or figure out how we can do better in the future (building more features, better documentation, etc.) | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 2 years ago

Building the Fastest Website Analytics

For over a year, we'd been struggling to keep up with our analytics data growth. Fathom had been growing at the speed of light, with more and more people ditching Google Analytics, and our data ingestion had been going through the roof. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

Someone Attacked Our Company

At the start of November, someone decided that they would try to destroy our company. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

Someone tried to put us out of business – Fathom Analytics

A malicious person decided they wanted to have a go at ruining our company and it’s reputation. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

Everyone Has Something to Hide

In this article, I will explain why everyone should care about their privacy, not just privacy nerds like me. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

Hosted vs. self-hosted website analytics

When deciding which analytics software to use for your website, one of the questions to be considered is whether you want to use a managed service or self-host something yourself. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

Big tech finally challenges Fathom Analytics

A billion dollar company has finally stepped into the privacy-first analytics space. What does this mean for small businesses? | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

What happened to our infrastructure when a customer got over 10M views?

One of our customers, who were no strangers to viral content, had launched a new project that had gone unbelievably viral. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

What tech stack does Fathom Analytics use?

When developers use a product like Fathom Analytics, the first question that comes to mind is “What tech stack is this company using?”. I personally love reading through company tech blog posts where they talk about their stacks. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

SaaS Lessons

Last month I joined Tom Creighton and Robert Hayes on the Framework show to chat about how Fathom Analytics works as a privacy-focused and fully self-funded software company. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

My 1 year review of Laravel Vapor

As one Laravel Vapor's first customers, we wanted to walk you through a review of costs, scaling, reliability and more. Here's what we've found after using Vapor for almost a year. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

We fired our first customer

Jack and Paul speak about having to fire a customer for the first time. It was tough, but it had to be done. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

Battle of the simple, privacy-focused analytics products

Fathom Analytics is simple to use, and fully respects the privacy of your website visitors. Let’s compare it to the competition. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

I quit my job to work on Fathom Analytics full time

As 2020 came around, it was becoming clear to me that I couldn’t handle my full time job and run Fathom, so I had to leave. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 3 years ago

Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Google, Senate hearings, data breaches… targeted advertising has been in the news, as well as come under fire a lot lately.What if—and hear me out on this—instead of trying to better regulate it, we flat-out banned it? The solution to one of our mos … | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 4 years ago

Make your website a black hole to big tech

Google doesn’t need to charge for Google Analytics, they get access to such a vast amount of our personal data. It’s one of the biggest tech monopolies ever. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 4 years ago

SaaS Focusing on SMB Instead of Enterprise?

The reasoning behind why we are nott interested in enterprise and are focusing on regular-sized businesses | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 4 years ago

From almost shutting down Fathom Analytics to tripling our MRR

It’s hard to imagine that a year ago Fathom almost disappeared forever. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 4 years ago

We built a GDPR compliant website analytics platform without using cookies

Fathom Analytics provides simple and useful website stats that focus on user privacy. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 4 years ago

Fathom Analytics: simple, useful website stats without tracking personal data

Fathom Analytics provides simple and useful website stats that focus on user privacy. | Continue reading


@usefathom.com | 5 years ago

Stop giving away data and privacy for free access to Analytics

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@usefathom.com | 5 years ago

Fathom – simple, trustworthy website analytics

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@usefathom.com | 5 years ago