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Dominik Sumer

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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · Jun 17

I'm excited to announce that @vemetric.com is now Open Source 🎉

After a long period of thinking about this, and exchanging with others, I finally decided to operate Vemetric under an open-core model, making its codebase openly available

Let me tell you a bit more about it 👇

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 11h

my first goal is not about money .. or only indirectly

my first goal is to be able to **only** work on things I truly enjoy working on

and making enough money with my products is the way to achieve this goal

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

open source is cooking!

getting external contributions feels surreal as a solopreneur 🫶

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

but still, it was an emotional rollercoaster and I felt really bad for breaking the user's site in the first place 9/9

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

he was happy that it's now working on his site and I could convince him to stick with Vemetric .. a huuge win for me, because now the Wordpress Plugin is also more robust in different scenarios 8/X

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

so I did the change there too, told the user that he should please try it with the new version, and boom - it worked :) 7/X

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

I already had a solution for this because when integrating Vemetric via Google Tag Manager, you have the same problem, but I haven't implemented it in the Vemetric Wordpress plugin 6/X

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

after a bit of back and forth, I figured out that one of his Wordpress plugins wrapped the Vemetric script into another script, making reading from the script's data attributes not work anymore 5/X

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

I told the user I was really sorry for this and I'd give him the refund anytime, but also asked if he'd be open to taking a closer look and see if we could fix the problem on his site 4/X

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

from feeling great to feeling quite bad in a few seconds .. especially because I just provided a fix for the Wordpress Plugin a few days earlier and couldn't really think of what would be the case of this issue 3/X

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

a few hours later: got a cancellation request .. the user wrote me the Vemetric Wordpress plugin broke his website and he wants a refund - yikes! 2/X

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 1d

a little story from the rollercoaster named SaaS 👇

on sunday, I woke up with a new subscription notification for Vemetric - yay a new customer! .. felt great and I enjoyed the breakfast with the family 1/X

Reposted by Dominik Sumer

Andy @devbre.com · 11d

🔥 New machine in Left Stranded! Meet The Forge.

Turn ingots into stronger weapons, armor, and tools!

Clip below ⬇️

🔗 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1936750/...

💬 Join the community: discord.gg/sjhwu9WTp9

#gamedev #indiegame #LeftStranded

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 2d

if you haven't already, feel free to leave a star 👇 :D
github.com/vemetric/ve...

GitHub - vemetric/vemetric: Simple, yet powerful Web- & Product Analytics.

Simple, yet powerful Web- & Product Analytics. Contribute to vemetric/vemetric development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 2d

we're getting closer to 200 stars on the Vemetric repo 🤩

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 3d

I was already thinking a lot about what's the best way to integrate AI into Vemetric (or the other way around)

yesterday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Apps .. providing a ChatGPT App for Vemetric might be a good way to start this journey 👀

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 4d

improving the Vemetric Docs with Tabs, showing examples for the different SDKs

they sync into the localStorage, so the user will always see the correct examples depending on their SDK of choice :D

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 7d

flora forming is quite satisfying 😄

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 7d

decided to revamp the auth pages a bit with this animated and interactive chart from the Vemetric dashboard ✌️

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 7d

still early, but we're improving! :D

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 8d

the list is growing 👀

Reposted by Dominik Sumer

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 8d

created a snappify template out of this in case anyone wants to reuse this kind of animation :D

snappify.com/templates/97...

Code Snippet Explanation | Templates - snappify

Two Code Snippets where one of them slides into the front and gets explained with an Arrow + Text Element.

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 8d

created a snappify template out of this in case anyone wants to reuse this kind of animation :D

snappify.com/templates/97...

Code Snippet Explanation | Templates - snappify

Two Code Snippets where one of them slides into the front and gets explained with an Arrow + Text Element.

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 8d

I've finally switched to proper auth guards via beforeLoad from TanStack Router

before I had a weird "Redirects" component that took care of the auth guarding globally and had weird effects when auth state refreshed 🙈

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 9d

thank you Nick! progress feels a bit slow atm, but I keep pushing through it :D

Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 9d

Here you can see the update from last month:
bsky.app/profile/dom...

Dominik Sumer (@dominiksumer.com)

Monthly update for @vemetric.com: August 2025 📈 🌐 66 Active Projects (+16) ⭐️ 158 GitHub Stars (+11) 📈 407.857 Events Tracked (+132.579) 💰 $65 MRR (+$18)