hey Jamie, I just received a notification from F5Bot about you mentioning Squeaky on HN (I'm one of the cofounders) and thought I'm come and say hello ヽ(∀ )ﾉ
We are indeed cookieless, and don't use IP-based tracking either, though we do screen IPs if you're using our IP-screening functionality to keep your teams internal data out of your analytics (optional). We also suppress data capture of sensitive data client-side by default, particularly helpful to ensure session recordings don't accidentally scoop up personally identifiable text-based data, and there are lots of other ways to fine-tune which data you do and don't want to capture.
If you'd like a demo some time feel free to get in touch via hello@squeaky.ai :) Also happy to chat about alternatives and their pros and cons, the privacy-first analytics space is heating up nowadays!
Been watching these videos for several months now, pretty relaxing to watch and fascinating too. I feel like this is the BMW equivalent: https://www.youtube.com/@M539Restorations
We don't mention this in the article, but we're a 2 man team and we've bootstrapped the product part-time around our day jobs, though I've recently taken a few months off to focus on it full time - there's a long way to go and lots to learn, but it's been a fun year :)
We capture browser version in Squeaky analytics at the moment, but we don't surface it cause nobody ever asked for it haha. If you want to try/use it I'm happy to visualise it for you!
This book was really important for me early in my career, and I still recommend it to others quite regularly https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9039673-undercover-user-... it will give you plenty of tactics you can use to conduct user research and gather feedback when you have no users or low budget etc.
