Comment by _fat_santa | Hacker News Reader

Comment by _fat_santa | Hacker News Reader

Something I've noticed about all these privacy respecting analytics apps is they all seem to be using a similar UI, in fact the only one I know that uses a different UI is Motamo.

I wonder why that is? My suspicion is this is layout is becoming a "standard UI" for analytics software. Often times I see companies in the same space largely mimic each others UI's. Things like the "Find Care" option in most healthcare sites looks largely the same. Same thing goes for LLM frontends and time tracking software. It just seems that each team has individually come to the same conclusion about what the "best UI" is for a given task.

Umami Demo - https://eu.umami.is/share/LGazGOecbDtaIwDr/umami.is

Simple Analytics Demo - https://dashboard.simpleanalytics.com/simpleanalytics.com

Fathom Analytics Demo - https://app.usefathom.com/share/deasaicp/hilarious+platypus?...

To me it's just a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it. I don't agree that "each team has individually come to the same conclusion". You can develop a product way quicker by cloning.

In this case the value prop is in the open source, self host, privacy first. Why try to innovate on the UI?

in my exp, there's only a few good UI libraries out there which is part of it, but I think generally the "standard UI" is a thing much like it happened to architecture and then we got the reset of brutalist / modernism, to highly generalize. Just thinking aloud, choosing between novel, unknown, and interesting UI/UX vs proven, reliable, and commonplace (read: boring) is always a toss up, coming down to the audience. Biz interests usually tend to the latter, which imo is good because you want people using the product, not thinking about how to use the product.

Mine also has a different UI, not necessarily better though, but the feature set is different: https://dashboard.uxwizz.com/server/demoLogin.php

https://pico.sh/analytics for a tabular view of analytics in a TUI

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