Analytics for indie hackers

Indie hackers rarely have one product — they have a landing page that shipped last weekend, a project from three months ago still getting a trickle of traffic, and whatever's next. Orbit's free tier covers your first site, and Boards let you watch every project's traffic in one place as the list grows.

What makes analytics hard for indie hackers

• No budget for analytics tooling on a project that hasn't made a dollar yet.
• Running several small projects at once means several dashboards to check, or none at all.
• A weekend spent configuring GA4 events is a weekend not spent shipping.
• Validating a launch means knowing right now if anyone showed up, not tomorrow in a digest email.

Where Orbit fits

• Free plan to startTrack your first site free, with 90-day retention — no card required to find out if a launch got any traffic at all.
• Boards as your project list growsAdd a second, third, or tenth side project and see traffic from all of them in one combined Board instead of a dashboard per domain.
• Real-time visitor countWatch visitors land right after you post to Hacker News or Twitter, instead of waiting for a daily summary.
• One script tag, no configPaste one script into your site's head and pageviews start showing up — no events to define, no properties to configure.