Ben Vinegar
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benv.ca
Ben Vinegar
@benv.ca
Worked on @sentry.io for nearly a decade. Co-wrote Third-party JavaScript. Hacking on counterscale.dev in Toronto. 🇨🇦

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Tronto is how the locals say it
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Every day is product launch day now 😅
September 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I don't think Bluesky is the place to shill my software. But I'm reasonably proud of working on this and wanted to share it.
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We're exploring ways to get around this, which might mean a second, slower event storage for data outside the 90 day window. Would that be ok?
September 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
After 1.5 years, the core idea of Counterscale remains true:

1. It's OSS you can actually run yourself
2. The hosting costs are $0 for practically everybody
3. It scales without effort
4. Near-zero effort to maintain

(But it still has a 90 day limit)

counterscale.dev
Counterscale
Scalable web analytics you run yourself on Cloudflare
counterscale.dev
September 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This feels like a semantic argument when the crux is: "I think this is worth investing in now."

If people want to wait, that's their call.
July 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
IMO the job increasingly becomes translating what you're thinking to a form the agents/LLMs understand.

The tools will improve, sure, but I wouldn't bet on a future where they know how to read your mind.
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I mean, I'd say the look and feel is the "talent" part.

If you mean had I manually written all the CSS myself? Maybe another full day.
July 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
👇 It's live here

counterscale.dev
Counterscale
Scalable web analytics you run yourself on Cloudflare
counterscale.dev
July 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM